PhD SPAN
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College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Communication
Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish

Admission Requirements

For unconditional admission to the Ph.D. in Spanish, applicants must have earned an M.A. degree in Spanish, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (A=4.00). Students who have an M.A. degree in a field other than Spanish must take one course from each of the following groups in addition to (and concurrently with) those required for the doctoral program:

Group 1: 6301, 6335, 6338, 6363, 6382;
Group 2: 6302, 6333, 6381, 6386;
Group 3: 6303, 6366;
Group 4: 6304, 6344, 6367, 6368, 6375, 6379, 6385;
Group 5: 6331, 6355, 6356, 6357, 6358, 6359.

Applicants must have acceptable scores on the General Aptitude section of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). A score of at least 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required for international graduate students. Three confidential letters of recommendation from professors detailing the potential of the candidate as a graduate student are also required.

Once admitted to the program, no course in which a grade below B- (2.67) is received may be applied toward the Ph.D. degree.

At the end of each student's first year of course work at the Ph.D. level, a screening procedure will be conducted by all faculty members with whom the student has studied in order to determine whether the individual is progressing satisfactorily toward the degree objective.