M.A.  in Hispanic Descriptive Linguistics

Required total hours: 36, beyond an appoved Bachelor's Degree

Required courses: SPAN 402 , 404 , LING 556/SPAN 551 , plus one course in Hispanic literature and one other linguistics course at the 500 level chosen in consultation with the student's advisor.  In addition, any student holding a teaching assistantship must successfully complete SPAN 502 the first year of the teaching assistantship appointment.

M.A. Comprehensive Examinations: The Comprehensive Examination in Hispanic Applied Linguistics consists of the following:

• one exam area in Second Language Acquisition
• four areas chosen from Syntax, Phonology-Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, History of the Language, Second Language Acquisition; the student may repeat any area only once

Each of the five exam areas consists of three questions.

Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics
Required hours: 60, beyond an approved M.A. degree. For the Ph.D. in Language in Context, of those 60 hours, a minimum of 32 must be in approved coursework that should include SPAN 403 and 405 . Remaining hours are taken as dissertation research credits. For the concentration in Second Language Acquisition, the requirements are different.  Please consult the website for SLA in Hispanic Linguistics .

All Ph.D. students are required to complete a set of Preliminary Examinations before proceeding to the dissertation research. For information on these examinations, consult a departmental advisor.

Language requirements. Students of Hispanic Linguistics are required to have advanced proficiency in a Romance language other than Spanish in addition to reading knowledge of another language, either ancient or modern. These requirements must be met before taking the prelim examinations. Please see the departmental Graduate Student Handbook for more details.