SLU-Madrid’s Master in Spanish
Our degree offers a holistic approach to the study
of the Spanish language, culture and literature.
SLU – Madrid’s Master in Spanish
Our degree offers a holistic approach to the study of the Spanish language, culture and literature.

Coursework
The M.A. in Spanish requires a total of 30 credits (10 courses), including at least two courses in each of the following areas:
- Spanish in the World
- Contemporary Spanish Culture and Civilization
- El Cantar de Mio Cid, Libro de buen amor and La Celestina
- Don Quijote
- Contemporary Spanish Short Story
- Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry
- Twentieth-Century Spanish Novel
- Twentieth-Century Spanish Drama
- Spanish Literature and Film (of Desire)
- Spanish Literature and Film: Buñuel & Galdós
- Peninsular Spanish Poetry from 1965 to the Present
- Spanish Novel After 1970
- Spanish Literature and Film
- Contemporary Spanish Women Writers
- Generation of ’98
- Honor in Spanish Drama
- Madrid In Spanish Literature
- Spanish Narrative 1990 – 2014
- Spanish Text & Discourse Analysis
- Testimony Women Prisoners of Spain
- The Avant Garde and the Generation of ‘27
- The Other Cervantes
- 20th-Century Spanish Prose Masters
- Spanish Romanticism
- Contemporary Latin American Short Story
- Latin American “Modernismo”
- Contemporary Latin American Poetry
- Early Latin American Novel
- Contemporary Latin American novel
- Women Writing Women: Latin American Women Playwrights
- The African Experience in Spanish America
- Women’s Literature in Latin America
- Latin American Literature and Film
- From West Side Story to Hip-Hop: Studies in Latino/a Performance
- Hispanic Short Story
- Contemporary Hispanic Short Short Story
- Contemporary Latin American Theatre
- Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Cultural Production
- Hispanic Literature in the United States
- Contemporary Latin American Women Writers
- Latin American Writers and the Spanish Civil War
- Spanish Linguistics
- Spanish Phonology and its Place in the Spanish Classroom
- Method and Technology: Teaching Spanish
- Spanish Grammar and its Place in the Classroom
- Spanish Second Language Acquisition