2007-09 - Graduate School - The University of Alabama

Graduate Catalog: Section 6.14http://graduate.ua.edu/catalog/16500.htmlColonial Latin America19th-century Latin America20th- and 21st-century Latin AmericaUS LatinoHispanic linguisticsA student will be held responsible for the items on the M.A. Reading List only in the field for which a prescribedcourse is not offered during the period of the student's enrollment or if a student fails to enroll in one of theprescribed courses. In consultation with the Spanish graduate advisor, each student must also select a special area ofinterest in Hispanic literature in order to write the thesis. Degree requirements include success on the writtencomprehensive examination. No oral component is required.Spanish Option, applied linguistics version with thesis (Plan I). Curriculum requirements: 30 hours ofcoursework and a thesis. In addition to the thesis, the applied linguistics track involves three components: language,linguistics, and applied linguistics. The language component consists of 15 hours of course credit in Spanishlanguage, literature, and culture (a minimum of 6 hours must be in peninsular literature and 6 hours in Latin-American literature). The linguistics component is comprised of a 3-hour descriptive linguistics course (SP 556). Theapplied linguistics component consists of 12 hours of coursework in second language acquisition and pedagogy (SP502 and three of the following: SP 581, EN 610, EN 613, CIE 577, or other approved courses; for descriptions ofcourses bearing the EN prefix, see the Department of English section of this catalog; for a description of CIE 577, see"Curriculum and Instruction Course Descriptions" in the College of Education section). Degree requirements includesuccess on a comprehensive examination, which is based on the coursework.Romance Languages Option, with thesis (Plan I). Curriculum requirements: 24 30 hours of coursework and athesis. The curriculum requires study of French and Spanish, one as the major and one as the minor. The majorincludes a minimum of 18 hours. The minor includes a minimum of 12 hours. More than the minimum isrecommended for both the major and the minor. Graduate courses in Italian studies are also available (see the RLprefix in course listings below). Degree requirements include success on written and oral comprehensiveexaminations. All examinations are based on the coursework.Doctor of Philosophy in Romance languagesDegree RequirementsThe student's plan of study for the Ph.D. degree must be approved by the department and the Graduate School bythe time the student completes 30 graduate semester hours of UA and/or transfer course work. In addition to theprogram-specific requirements presented below, all doctoral candidates, regardless of the option selected, mustadhere to the following.The minimal formal coursework required is 60 semester hours, which may include up to 30 hours of transferredcredits earned at another institution. Appropriate M.A. hours earned at The University of Alabama can also counttoward the total required accumulation of hours. Students who have completed a master's thesis need accumulateonly 54 hours of coursework. Once all coursework is completed, an additional 24 hours of dissertation research arerequired. All doctoral candidates must possess reading knowledge of one language in addition to English, their nativelanguage, and their language of specialization.It is strongly recommended that, before the termination of studies, all doctoral candidates reside for a period in acountry or location requiring constant interaction in the language of specialization.All doctoral candidates must be careful to fulfill the residency requirement and to abide by thespecified time limits (see "Academic Policies" section for doctoral degrees). Once enrolled, alldoctoral candidates must submit a Plan of Study to the Office of the Graduate School and abide by all other policiesof the Graduate School.Three options are available in the doctoral program:French Option. The curriculum is centered on French, though up to 12 hours of coursework in a related discipline isadmissible. All new graduate teaching assistants must take FR 512. At the conclusion of the coursework, a qualifyingexamination must take place before work on the dissertation can begin. The qualifying examination includes writtenand oral components. The written examination is comprised of six sections. Four of the sections pertain to standardperiods of French literature in which the student has had coursework. The remaining two sections are open and maypertain either to additional literary periods or to any other area(s) of study that the student has undertaken in Frenchor in a related field, such as Francophone literature and culture, French civilization, French linguistics, etc.