Go beyond mastering the language
The Master of Arts in Spanish program at the University of St. Thomas offers a solid foundation in the intellectual and cultural history of Latin America, Spain and the United States while developing your verbal and written abilities in Spanish.
We offer a flexible program that you can design in consultation with your graduate adviser with evening and summer courses, as well as traditional, hybrid and online course formats. You will be prepared for a diverse range of careers in fields such as college-level teaching, business, law, social services and medicine.
The M.A. in Spanish is a flexible program designed to prepare students for careers in teaching, business, law, government and more. Our curriculum fits your busy schedule with:
El Siglo de Oro, also known as the Spanish Golden Age, was a flourishing era of cultural and artistic prosperity in Spain. In this class, we will explore significant works, including La Celestina (1514), El Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), Fuenteovejuna (1619), and La Vida es Sueño (1635), among others. Students will read, analyze, contrast, and compare how honor, love, and death manifest in these masterpieces characterized by patriotic and religious fervor and heightened realism.
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:15 p.m.
Online via Zoom + asynchronous work
3 Credits
Instructor: Dr. Shirley Kramer
Degree Requirements (30 Credits)
At least one course in each of the following areas (9 credits):
PLUS: Six additional courses (18 credits) chosen from the above areas and the following area, in consultation with the graduate advisor:
Capstone course: GSPA 699 – Master’s Project (3 credits)
Note: Students may not repeat a cross-listed course for graduate credit if the class has already been taken for undergraduate credit at St. Thomas.
Course offerings include:
Courses offerings include:
Course offerings include:
Course offerings include:
Degree Requirements (30 Credits)
At least one course in each of the following areas (9 credits):
PLUS: Six additional courses (18 credits) chosen from the above areas and the following area, in consultation with the graduate advisor:
Capstone course: GSPA 699 – Master’s Project (3 credits)
Note: Students may not repeat a cross-listed course for graduate credit if the class has already been taken for undergraduate credit at St. Thomas.
Course offerings include:
Courses offerings include:
Course offerings include:
Course offerings include:
Dr. Donny A. Vigil has taught Spanish since 1999. His areas of interest include Hispanic language and linguistics: phonetics, phonology and dialectology of Spanish and Portuguese, sociolinguistics, history of the Spanish language, language contact, language variation and change, New Mexico Spanish, pragmatics, discourse analysis and translation.
