Degree Requirements (33-36 Post Masters Hours)

Beyond the B.A., candidates for the Ph.D. are required to take 66-69 graduate hours. They must demonstrate a reading knowledge in one other language. This requirement may be satisfied by coursework in another program of the DLLC (with such courses not included in the total number of required credit hours of approved doctoral work). Each doctoral candidate must take 24 credit hours of approved coursework, and 12 hours of Dissertation preparation (beyond the M.A.). With the approval of the Graduate (Academic) Advisor, student may substitute 6 credit hours of graduate course work in another area related to their field of study. Each student will pass a six hour Comprehensive Examination, and present any analytical commentary of a text in the student’s major area of concentration. There will be an oral exam (to be given within two weeks after successfully passing the written exams). A Comprehensive Examination Committee will design questions based upon reading lists pertinent to all parts of the Examination. Each student will write a dissertation on a topic which will be chosen in consultation with the Dissertation Committee and the Graduate Advisor in Spanish.

Students with a B.A. and who are admitted to the doctoral program should complete 54 hours of graduate coursework, and 12 additional credit hours of SPAN 899 (Dissertation Preparation).

Students who have not completed the following courses (or equivalents) as part of the MA degree must complete:

• SPAN 700 -Introduction to Graduate Studies in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• SPAN 711 -Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
• SPAN 715 -History of the Spanish Language

FORL 776  (3 hours) is required of all graduate teaching assistants.

Students who have completed similar courses during their M.A. training at another institution will be exempt from this course.

Dissertation Requirement

In order to obtain the Ph.D. in Spanish, candidates should write a Dissertation that makes a relevant contribution to current scholarship in their chosen field. The candidate must designate as Doctoral Advisor a Graduate Faculty member of the Spanish program.

The proposal for the Dissertation and the composition of the Dissertation Committee should be endorsed by the Doctoral Advisor and approved by the Graduate Advisor in Spanish. A Prospectus will be presented and defended (after passing the Comprehensive Examination and no later than two semesters thereafter).
 

Coursework

Students should complete the core courses designated in the M.A. in Spanish program. In addition, students may choose courses to complete the 24 credit hours of required coursework from the following courses:

• SPAN 711 - Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism|
• SPAN 715 - History of the Spanish Language|
• SPAN 722 - Cervantes|
• SPAN 724 - Renaissance and Baroque Poetry and Drama|
• SPAN 730 - Contemporary Spanish Prose Fiction|
• SPAN 732 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish Prose and Poetry|
• SPAN 733 - Trans-Atlantic Perspectives|
• SPAN 734 - Spanish Poetry: Generation of ‘27|
• SPAN 736 - The Generation of 1898|
• SPAN 745 - Seminar in Spanish-American Drama|
• SPAN 746 - Post-Baroque Spanish Drama|
• SPAN 747 - The Modern Spanish-American Novel.|
• SPAN 751 - Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Short Story|
• SPAN 752 - Twentieth-Century Spanish Exile Literature|
• SPAN 763 - Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative|
• SPAN 765 - Contemporary Spanish-American Poets|
• SPAN 767 - Spanish-American Testimonial Literature|
• SPAN 769 - Hispanic Women Writers|
• SPAN 771 - Spanish-American Modernism|
• SPAN 796 - Independent Study|
• SPAN 880 - Seminar on Special Topics in Transatlantic Studies|
• SPAN 881 - Seminar on Special Topics in Spanish-American Literatures and Cultures|
• SPAN 882 - Seminar on Special Topics in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture|
• SPAN 899 - Dissertation Preparation|