The Department of World Languages and Cultures offers a Concentration in Spanish as part of the interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree in World Languages and Applied Intercultural Studies.
This concentration is intended to develop skills, connections and career readiness in translation/interpretation, teaching abroad, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy/outreach, teaching in K-12 schools, artistic creation, activism and social work. The concentration will focus on practical education based on real-world experience and cultural practices, as opposed to the more intense language/literature training typical of MA programs in a specific language.
Students will be encouraged to develop, with the assistance of faculty in their language/culture, an individualized course of study focused on the practical development and application of language and cultural skills through study abroad or through connections with the relevant communities in the vast and diverse metropolitan Atlanta area.
This concentration, like the others within the MA program, offers two tracks: a project-based capstone track and an academic thesis track. Both tracks comprise 30 total credit hours and are intended to be finished in five semesters (two academic years plus the summer between them), though it is common for students with full-time jobs to stretch this progress out over a longer period. Students will have the opportunity to choose or change tracks as they develop their program, and the tracks are broadly similar, especially for students in their first year of study. The specifics are detailed below.
Applicants may obtain additional information about the Department of World Languages & Cultures and the MA in World Languages and Applied Intercultural Studies by contacting the Director of Graduate Studies.
Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher in those courses counting toward the MA degree. Only courses passed with a grade of B or higher will count toward the degree.
