Graduate Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics
The graduate program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota offers the Master of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree with concentration in four areas: Spanish, Spanish American, and Lusophone literatures and cultures, and Hispanic Linguistics. The four specialized area components are fully integrated in these degree programs, so that the M.A. candidates and Ph.D. candidates may follow courses of study involving the various fields. The close integration of these areas makes this department unique in the United States.
The department has a strong tradition of fostering socio-historical perspectives on literatures and cultures. Our faculty are committed to comparative and interdisciplinary study and they engage a variety of contemporary theoretical approaches, with strengths in postcolonial theory, feminisms, critical race theory, queer theory, hermeneutics of human rights, and theories of globalization. The Hispanic Linguistics faculty are specialists in the fields of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, syntax, pragmatics, phonetics, and phonology. The program in Lusophone literatures and cultures is one of the few in the nation that focuses on the Portuguese-speaking world as a whole and in its parts. Graduate students may also take courses in related departments and programs, such as Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Linguistics, History, the Human Rights Program, among others.
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