芝加哥洛约拉大学

Students can complete both their BA and MA in Spanish in 4.5 to 5 years, depending on summer course work, study abroad and transfer credits.

Spanish Majors in their first four years of the combined degree program complete the required thirty hours of the undergraduate degree, including up to twelve hours of required graduate course work.

Program Outcomes

By completing our ABM degree option, students will acquire advanced knowledge in the field, produce scholarship that engages in critical thinking, and demonstrate ethical thinking and responsible academic conduct.

Students in the Spanish ABM will begin taking graduate courses during the first semester of their senior year. Depending on how the combined program is structured, students will complete up to 12 hours for both B.A. and M.A. credit during their senior year. Just like graduates of our M.A. program, graduates of our ABM 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
• Graduates of this program will be well prepared to pursue a Ph.D. in Spanish or other related fields, such as Latin American Studies, to apply to a professional school, or to seek a teaching position at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. The combined degree will allow promising and talented undergraduates to move quickly through the M.A. degree and to apply a portion of their undergraduate funding (up to 12 hours) toward the Masters degree.

Degree Progress: Schema of how students progress through this program in four and a half or five years by earning 30 hours for the B.A. and 30 hours for the M.A. in Spanish.