The Department of World Languages and Literatures offers degree programs leading to the M.A. in World Language with a major in French, German, Japanese, or Spanish, and the M.A. in World Languages and Literatures, with a concentration in two world literatures and linguistics.
World Languages and Literatures M.A.
The M.A. in World Languages and Literatures is a graduate degree with concentration in a primary language, a secondary language, and in linguistics. The primary language may be French, German, Japanese, or Spanish; the secondary language may be Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish.
Requirements
A minimum of 60 credits, of which 40 must be earned in residence, distributed among the following areas:
Primary language
| WLL 560 | Principles of Scholarly Research | 4 |
| | Other adviser-approved 500-level courses | 16 |
Two of the following:
| 551 | Poetry | 4 |
| 552 | Drama | 4 |
| 553 | Prose | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 28 |
Secondary language
| 511 | Advanced Language | 4 |
| | And | |
| 512 | Advanced Language | 4 |
| | Or | |
| Span 514 | Advanced Spanish Grammar | 4 |
Twelve graduate credits chosen from:
| | 500 -level literature | 12 |
| | and/or | |
| 594 | Linguistics | 4 |
| 595 | Linguistics | 4 |
| | and/or | |
| 584 | Stylistics | 12 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 20 |
500-level literature: (not including Literature in Translation)
Note: If upper-division courses in fourth-year language have been successfully completed at the undergraduate level (with a GPA of 3.00 or above), they can be waived, reducing the total credits required by a maximum of 8.
Linguistics and methods
12 graduate credits chosen from:
| WLL 593 | Language Proficiency Testing and Teaching | 4 |
| WLL 598 | Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages | 4 |
| Fr 594 | French Linguistics | 4 |
| Fr 597 | Applied French Linguistics | 4 |
| Ger 594 | German Linguistics | 4 |
| Ger 597 | Applied German Linguistics | 4 |
| Span 594 | Spanish Linguistics | 4 |
| Span 597 | Applied Spanish Linguistics | 4 |
| | Other adviser-approved courses | |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Total Credit Hours: 60
In addition to the required coursework, the candidate will have to:
- Submit two research papers to the graduate committee, one dealing with the primary, the other with the secondary area. These may be written either in the primary or secondary languages, respectively, or in English.
- Pass a final comprehensive written and oral examination over coursework taken in the primary and secondary areas and over the research papers.