Program Overview

The Spanish and Portuguese program offers graduate work leading to the degrees of Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in two fields: Hispanic Literatures and Hispanic Linguistics. Students may concentrate in Spanish, Portuguese, or a combination of both. The graduate program is committed to fostering cultural and intellectual diversity and encourages the study of all aspects of, and approaches to, Hispanic literatures and linguistics. In addition to all traditional areas of concentration, the graduate program offers areas of concentration in such fields as Hispanic Bilingualism (M.A. area of specialization, Ph.D. major and minor areas of specialization), Hispanic Women Writers (Ph.D. major and minor areas of specialization), and Literary Theory (Ph.D. minor area of specialization).