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Humanities & Education
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School of Humanities
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master of arts (m.a.) Spanish
This programme targets students who hold a B.A. in Spanish from The UWI or a valid equivalent
degree from another university. Additionally, students must have passed at least 4 courses in
Hispanic Literature in years II and III of the B.A. programme, all at or above the ‘B’ grade. Students
who do not satisfy the requirements will be allowed to take a qualifying examination. It is a parttime
programme and students are required to complete it in a maximum of three calendar years.
Students are required to complete 4 semester courses in Hispanic Literature, 2 year-long courses
and a research paper.
master of fine arts (mfa) Creative Writing – Prose fiction
The MFA Creative Writing – Prose Fiction provides, for established writers without certification and
prospective writers already holding a first degree (in any field), a postgraduate course of study that
will lead to an M.F.A. degree to be awarded on completion of a manuscript of fiction. The objectives
of the degree are:
• to award certification for established and prospective writers of the region;
• to encourage and develop home-grown creative sensibilities in literary discourse;
• to reduce the need for overseas postgraduate qualification in Creative Writing;
• to promote and support literary scholarship in the region.
master of Philosophy (m.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) linguistics
The norm for admission to the M.Phil. in Linguistics is a First or Second Class degree in Linguistics or an
M.A. in the same. All students without a higher degree are required to pursue a core of coursework to
expand and strengthen disciplinary knowledge acquired at the undergraduate level. After completion
of this, students are required to complete a reading field guided by their supervisor and assessed by
a seminar paper and annotated bibliography before proceeding to their dissertation research.
master of Philosophy (m.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) literatures in english, french
or Spanish
The Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Literatures in English, French
OR Spanish are offered out of the Department of Liberal Arts. Students may be required to take
a course in Methods of Research and Literary Scholarship. Prospective students must ensure that
their topic of research is clearly defined and that there is a member of the faculty that can ably
supervise their research.
master of Philosophy (m.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in
human Communication Studies
A graduate programme in human communication offers an opportunity to explore the linguistic and
non-linguistic forces that influence and shape human communication. In thought and in expression,
the need to communicate assumes form and substance. Study and research in human communication
in the humanities and education disciplines can provide avenues for the interdisciplinary exploration
of the nature, purpose and use of communication in classrooms, communities, the workplace and
within the wider ambit of human and social interaction.
The graduate programme is designed to provide candidates with the theoretical understandings and
methods of the human communication discipline to critically explore and reflect upon the issues
and questions that emerge out of the need to understand, negotiate and participate in the human
communication interactions characterized by verbal and nonverbal exchanges. The programme focuses
on the development of specific competences and specialized knowledge, skills and attitudes for:
• The professional use and application of human communication theory and practice in a variety
of fields in the M.A. stream and,
• The investigation of human communication problems and challenges and the creation and
documentation of new understandings of the nature and use of human communication in the M.
Phil. stream.
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