Spanish and Portuguese Studies
The Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (MALAS) specialization in Spanish and Portuguese studies allows the candidate to acquire broad interdisciplinary training with a humanities emphasis focusing on either literature/culture or language/linguistics in Latin America. One may emphasize Spanish/Spanish America, Portuguese/Brazil, or a combination of the two.
Requirements
MALAS students must complete 30 credit hours of approved courses, write a thesis on a topic related to the specialization, and demonstrate intermediate-high proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese.
The course requirements are distributed as follows:
- 6 hours of gateway seminars (preferably in the first semester):
LAS 6220 Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies
LAS 6292/3 Research Design and Methods in Latin American Studies (a graduate methods course in Spanish or Portuguese may substitute)
- 15 hours of courses in the specialization (see below)
- 9 hours of courses with Latin American content outside the specialization, selected in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Richmond Brown
In addition, students must register for LAS 6971, Masters’ Research, in the semester of graduation—at least 3 credit hours for fall or spring, or 2 credit hours for summer
Courses in the Specialization
Spanish Courses
SPN 6315 Advanced Composition and Syntax
SPN 6735 Special Study in Spanish Linguistics
SPN 6785 Advanced Spanish Phonetics
SPN 6845 History of the Spanish Language
SPN 6855 Structure of Spanish
SPW 6209 Colonial Spanish American Literature
SPW 6237 Spanish-American Narrative from Origins to Criollismo
SPW 6285 Contemporary Spanish- American Narrative 1
SPW 6286 Contemporary Spanish- American Narrative 2
SPW 6306 Spanish American Theatre
SPW 6356 Spanish American Poetry from Romanticism to Vanguardism
SPW 6357 Contemporary Spanish American Poetry
SPW 6366 Spanish American Essay
SPW 6806 Introduction to Graduate Study and Research
SPW 6902 Special Study in Spanish or Spanish-American Literature
SPW 6934 Seminar in Spanish American Literature
SPN 6706 Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism
SPN 6827 Sociolinguistics of Spain and Spanish America
SPN 6835 Spanish Dialectology
Portuguese Courses
POW 6275 The 19th-Century Brazilian Novel
POW 6276 The 20th-Century Brazilian Novel
POW 6385 Brazilian Lyric
POW 6386 Brazilian Drama
POW 6930 Special Study in Brazilian Literature (rotating topics; e.g. modernism, Northeast, science fiction)
POW 6905 Independent Study
Faculty
Spanish
Jessi Elana Aaron (Sociolinguistics)
Efraín Barradas (Caribbean Literature)
Carina González (Argentina; migration)
Reynaldo Jiménez (Pedagogy, Caribbean Literature)
David Pharies (General, Historical Linguistics)
Ana de Prada Pérez (Linguistics; Catalan)
Jason Rothman (Romance Linguistics and second language acquisition)
Martín Sorbille (Spanish American Literature; Argentina; Film Studies)
Portuguese
M. Elizabeth Ginway (Brazilian Literature, Culture and Civilization)
Charles A. Perrone (Brazilian Literature, Culture and Civilization)
For further information on courses and affiliate faculty, see the website of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Contact Information
319 Grinter Hall
P.O. Box 115530
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
USA Tel: (352) 392-0375
Fax: (352) 392-7682
Graduate Advisor
Richmond F. Brown
Spanish Coordinator
Efraín Barradas
Portuguese Coordinator
Elizabeth Ginway