芝加哥洛约拉大学

The program offers graduate courses in a number of areas. Our students experience both the traditional lecture/discussion courses and the graduate seminar. All graduate classes are conducted by full-time members of the department. Specific attention is given to the individual needs of students through directed readings and research studies. Graduate students also have the opportunity to work as Program Assistant to the Director of our undergraduate summer study abroad program at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, in Córdoba, Spain.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able:

• to demonstrate familiarity with works of Latin American and Peninsular literature
• to demonstrate familiarity with the general characteristics of several traditions and trends within the literary contexts of Latin America and Spain
• to use the Spanish vocabulary necessary for discussing literature critically
• to understand broad historical events, cultural currents, and current academic trends as they are represented in Latin American and Peninsular literature
• to read, write, and speak Spanish fluently
• to demonstrate the ability to do independent, scholarly research by integrating, comparing, and evaluating ideas and materials from various sources, both literary and critical
• to develop and sustain a coherent argument in both oral and written Spanish
• to know how to foster a collegial, collaborative learning environment that encourages self-expression
• to comprehend the social and historical function and significance of literature, culture, and art in Spain and Latin America, and more broadly
• to understand and incorporate the national standards for the teaching of foreign languages into the teaching of Spanish at various levels
• to understand from a task-based perspective the theoretical and practical issues of communicative language teaching for all skill areas
• to demonstrate competence in a language other than English or Spanish, for the purpose of research