The Department of World Languages and Literatures offers degree programs leading to the M.A. in World Language with a major in German, Japanese, or Spanish, and the M.A. in World Languages and Literatures, with a concentration in two world literatures and linguistics. Admission to the MA in French has been suspended effective fall 2020, and no applications are being accepted at this time.
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 German, Japanese, or Spanish; the secondary language may be Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish. Admission to the MA in French has been suspended effective fall 2020, and no applications are being accepted at this time.
Requirements
A minimum of 60 credits, of which 40 must be earned in residence, distributed among the following areas:
Primary language
General
| WLL 560 | Principles of Scholarly Research | 4 |
Credits from 551, 552, 553
| | Eight graduate credits chosen from 551, 552, 553 | 8 |
Other
| | Other adviser-approved 500-level courses | 16 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 28 |
Secondary language
Eight graduate credits chosen from:
| 511 | Advanced Language | 4 |
| 512 | Advanced Language | 4 |
| 514 | Advanced Language | 4 |
| 516 | Advanced Language | 4 |
| 517 | Advanced Language | 4 |
Twelve graduate credits chosen from:
| | 500-level literature | 12 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 20 |
Note: 500-level literature may not include 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), the equivalent number of Advanced Language credits 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 590 | History of the French Language | 4 |
| Ger 584 | German Stylistics | 4 |
| Ger 594 | German Linguistics | 4 |
| Ger 597 | Applied German Linguistics | 4 |
| Jpn 552 | Japanese Language and Linguistics | 4 |
| Jpn 577 | Teaching Japanese As a Foreign Language | 4 |
| Jpn 578 | Teaching Japanese As a Foreign Language | 4 |
| Jpn 594 | Japanese Sociolinguistics | 4 |
| Span 590 | History of the Spanish Language | 4 |
| Span 594 | Spanish Linguistics | 4 |
| Span 597 | Applied Spanish Linguistics | 4 |
| Span 598 | Spanish Syntax | 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.