To fulfill requirements for non-thesis master's students who need to complete final degree requirements other than coursework during their last semester. This may include such things as a comprehensive examination, oral examination, or foreign language requirement. Students are required to be registered during the semester they graduate.

Research Methods in Hispanic Graduate Studies comprises two modules, one in linguistics and another in literary theory. The course offers a comprehensive overview of research methods in linguistics and theories of literary criticism; it also provides students with useful bibliographical and library resources. Students will learn how to apply research methods to analyze the Spanish language and literary texts in Spanish; they will relate the readings of the course to their personal research interests, creating an environment in which theory and critical practice support each other.

The course intends to examine the phonological and morphological structures of Spanish as they relate to English.

The course intends to examine the grammatical structures of Spanish and English for students who are intermediate to advanced learners of Spanish.

The study of the meaning of words, sentences, and discourse and elements of conversation including context, usage, and appropriateness.

Study of the close relationship between language and society and its implications in Spanish-speaking communities. Introduction to the methodologies and tools of sociolinguistics.

A study of Spanish literature from the end of the first millennium through the consolidation of the various Spanish kingdoms under Ferdinand and Isabella.

Representative works of poetry, prose narrative, and drama from Boscan to Calderon. Close reading of texts with special attention to major historical, artistic, and literary trends of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Major historical and literary movements and major historical, literary, and artistic figures of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Spain. Analysis of texts through close reading.

This course is an introduction to the major movements and writers of prose fiction in Spain in the last two hundred years.

This course is designed to give an overview of literary trends in Hispanic-American literature from pre-Hispanic times to the eighteenth century.

This course is designed as a survey of the Latin American novel, short story, poetry and theatre from the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.

This course is designed as a survey of the Latin American novel, short-story, poetry and theatre of the first half of twentieth century.

This course is designed as a survey of the Latin American novel, short-story, poetry, and the theatre from the second half of the twentieth century to the present.

An introductory course for the field of linguistics and its components: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and language change.

Historical developments of the language from Latin to modern Spanish.

An examination of studies on the acquisition of Spanish as a first and second language; language acquisition in both formal and informal environments is studied.

Theory, review of literature, and practice in language acquisition and applied linguistics for graduate students who will be teaching Spanish as a second language.

Reading of intermediate-level Spanish texts. No previous language experience required. Limited to graduate students or to undergraduates by petition. Does not count toward foreign language requirement for undergraduate students.

Continuation of SPA 5370. Reading of intermediate-level Spanish texts. No previous language experience required. Limited to graduate students or to undergraduates by petition. Does not count toward foreign language requirement for undergraduate students.

A study of an author, work, period, genre, or trend of Hispanic literature or of an aspect of the Spanish language. May be taken more than once as topic changes from semester to semester.

Research, data analysis, writing, and oral defense of an approved master's thesis. At least six hours of SPA 5V99 are required.