The faculty of the Division of Spanish and Latin American and Iberian Studies has developed a graduate curriculum that has systematically been updated to reflect national trends and to address student needs and interests.

The Spanish MA trains language instructors who work at all levels of education; it prepares graduates to offer linguistic and translation support for businesses, immigration services, and tourism; and it offers a platform from which students and faculty serve as liaisons between Hawai‘i’s growing Hispanic community (approximately 121,000), the university, and the state.

The high quality of our MA graduates, who receive national and local recognition for their academic and research endeavors, is attested to by their routine acceptance into the most prestigious Ph.D. programs in the nation and their great success in finding teaching positions in first-rate schools and colleges.

At the end of the MA program students will be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced language skills in Spanish.

• Apply analytical and critical skills in the interpretation of different texts (literary and other forms of visual expression).

• Locate and retrieve relevant secondary criticism.

• Apply secondary criticism in research projects.

• Demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge of Spanish and Latin American literary expressions.

• Demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge of Spanish and Latin American traditional and cultural expressions.

• Demonstrate knowledge of Spanish linguistics.

• Read, write and use oral skills for specific professional purposes.

• (Teaching Assistants only) Demonstrate familiarity with current L2 teaching methodologies, language learning technologies and practices.