浪漫语言文学硕士

浪漫语言文学硕士课程将为您提供教学，继续攻读法语，西班牙语或教育的更高学位的准备，或者只是让您继续学习外语而已。学生选择法语或西班牙语作为重点。大多数课程每周一次晚上上课，这使从事全职工作的学生可以实现自己的梦想。
Our Master of Arts in Romance Languages allows you to further your foreign languages studies and will also prepare you to teach, pursue an advanced degree or find a successful career in a variety of fields. Students pursuing a master's degree in romance languages choose an emphasis in either French or Spanish. Most of the classes are taught one evening per week, allowing students with full-time jobs to attend. Students develop the skills and knowledge necessary for careers in teaching, international affairs including the foreign service, cultural services, writing and translating and study at the doctoral level. Students work closely with award-winning faculty in courses in French and Francophone literature, film and culture, as well as in French linguistics and stylistics. The program responds to students' broad range of interests while developing transferable, professional skills in research, analysis and communication. Alumni of our program teach Spanish language and Hispanic culture in K-12 schools throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area and around the country. Other graduates have gone on to earn doctorates in Spanish and Latin American literature and are employed at colleges and universities around the nation. Some former students use their Spanish skills in a number of fields, including translation for social service, medicine and law.<br>Students graduating from this program will:<br>Students demonstrate Written Proficiency in the chosen language. More specifically, the writing proficiency objective is for students to attain at least an Advanced level of writing as outlined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2012). These writers meet work and/or academic writing needs on a variety of topics generally with precision and detail.<br>Students demonstrate Oral Proficiency in their chosen language by attaining an Advanced level of speaking as outlined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2012). These speakers are able to engage in conversation in a clearly participatory manner in order to communicate information on autobiographical topics, as well as topics of community, national, or international interest. The topics are handled concretely by means of narration and description in the major time frames of past, present and future. These speakers can also deal with a social situation with an unexpected complication. The language of Advanced-level speakers is abundant, the oral paragraph being the measure of Advanced-level length and discourse. <br>Students demonstrate advanced competency in cultural and textual analysis, including appropriately sophisticated research and documentation skills. Students can effectively describe, analyze and critically evaluate multiple topics in support of an original thesis. Students can search, find and accurately identify appropriate sources for a chosen topic. They can effectively analyze, evaluate and summarize other people's thinking about a particular topic. They consistently and accurately cite relevant research. The demonstration of this competency is most often in the target language.<br>Students demonstrate thematic knowledge of the culture(s) of their chosen language, including but not necessarily limited to the literature in that language. Students demonstrate a significant grasp of the history of Spanish or French-speaking countries and/or peoples and they can discuss in some depth their culture(s) and cultural production, including literary texts.