Luso-Brazilian Culture Independent Study - Instructor Permission Required

The Colloquium allows DMPs in Spanish to meet regularly with the DMP coordinator to discuss research strategies, documentation styles, and structure and style in extended expository writing as they are working independently on a thesis. It also provides a forum for presenting and discussing work-in-progress. Pre-requisite: Acceptance in DMP

Distinguished majors in Spanish will meet individually with their thesis advisors to discuss progress and revise drafts of their theses. At the end of the semester, they will present the results of their research in a public forum.

Independent Study

This course is taught by two of the most distinguished and exciting writers in the Spanish-speaking world today, with extensive experience giving writing workshops. It is dedicated to creative writing (short stories), emphasizing creative, and suggesting ways to initiate the creative process. Students need to have a good command of the Spanish Language, at 4000 level or similar. Undergraduate as well as graduate students are welcome.

This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.

This required course prepares students to submit their Second Year Portfolio. Students will receive guidance from the tenure-track instructor and peer mentoring from classmates in preparation of the Portfolio, which is due on April 30 of year 2. The Portfolio will be assessed using an established rubric available on the Spanish Graduate Program website.

Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

Graduate students develop the Comprehensive Exam Portfolio required for the PhD in Spanish and defend its contents in an oral exam.

Graduate students develop the Dissertation Proposal required for the PhD in Spanish and defend it before their dissertation committee.