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Academic program requirements above those of Graduate Studies include approving a minimum of thirty credits. All students are required to write a thesis. In addition, candidates for the degree must approve comprehensive examina¬tions in the areas of Spanish literature, Hispano- American literature, Puerto Rican literature, and linguistics.

ESHI 6005. STYLISTICS (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

An analysis of the phenomenon of "style" in Hispanic literature and the schools of thought dedicated to the study of stylistics.

ESHI 6006. DON QUIJOTE (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A critical reading of the immortal novel of the Golden Age, and analysis of Cervantes' style and themes, with special attention to research.

ESHI 6007. POETIC CREATION FROM RUBEN DARIO TO GARCIA LORCA (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Study and appreciation of the aesthetics embodied in Modernism and the poetic world of García Lorca.

ESHI 6008. THEATER OF THE GOLDEN AGE (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Critical reading of the great works of the dramatists of the Golden Age, with emphasis on the criticism of Spanish Classical Drama.

ESHI 6015. GONGORISM (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A study of Gongorism as a conception of the literary language in different periods of Spanish and Spanish American Literature.

ESHI 6016. SPANISH NOVEL OF THE 19th CENTURY (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A study of the works of Galdós as the main figure of the renaissance in the Spanish novel of the 19th Century.

ESHI 6017. THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ESSAY (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A critical study of the Spanish essay of the twentieth century through the reading and discussion of texts representative of the contemporary Spanish thought.

ESHI 6018. ROMANTICISM AND MODERNISM IN THE LITERATURE OF PUERTO RICO (I). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A study and analysis of the most significant aspects of Puerto Rican Romanticism and Modernism.

ESHI 6027. GENERAL LINGUISTICS (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A study of the development of linguistics, analysis of schools, fundamental methods and fields in which modern linguistics operate. Discussion of new trends.

ESHI 6028. THE NOVEL OF THE HISPANIC ANTILLES (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A study of the origin and development of the novel in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, analysis of the outstanding works of each country, with special attention to their common characteristics and differences.

ESHI 6029. THE LITERARY GENERATION OF THE THIRTIES IN PUERTO RICO (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

A study of the artistic tendencies and literary forms in the works of the main authors of the Generation of the Thirties in Puerto Rico.

ESHI 6035. PUERTO RICAN LITERATURE OF THE GENERATION OF 45 (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Reading and analysis of various forms of poetry, short story, novel, drama, and the essay whose roots evolve from the generation of 1930 to form the so called generation of 1945.

ESHI 6037. EVOLUTION OF GRAMMAR IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE (Odd numbered years). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Study of the morphology and syntax of the Spanish language from its origin up to the present; diachronic study of Spanish grammar. Discussion and analysis.

ESHI 6045. THESIS RESEARCH (I, II). Six credit hours.

A study of the methods and techniques in linguistic and literary research in Hispanic Studies. Full accreditation of this course is given upon completion and approval of the Master´s thesis.

ESHI 6047. MEDIEVAL SPANISH LITERATURE (Even numbered years). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

The popular anonymous creations and the works of learned poets with special attention given to XV Century literature, already influenced by the Renaissance and culminating in La Celestina.

ESHI 6067. CONTEMPORARY SPANISH AMERICAN SHORT-STORY (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

The Spanish American short story from the decade of 1940 to the present; tendencies and techniques; most representative authors: Borges, Cortázar, Arreola, Rulfo, Roa Bestos, Fuentes, Carpentier, Paz, Di Benedetto, García Márquez, Yáñez, Vargas Llosa, Donoso.

ESHI 6096. DIALECTOLOGY AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN THE CARIBBEAN SPANISH. Three credit hours. One-and-one-half hours of lecture and one-and-one-half hours of seminar per week.

Explore linguistic and extra-linguistic aspects of the regional and social variety of Caribbean Spanish, from both a diachronic and synchronal perspective.

ESHI 6405-6406. THE SPANISH LAN¬GUAGE IN AMERICA (I)-(II). Three credit hours per semester. Three hours of lecture per week each semester.

A comparative study and analysis of the characteristics that define the unity and the variety of our vernacular language in Puerto Rico, the rest of the Spanish American countries, and Spain.

ESHI 6407. SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISPANIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES (On demand). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Selected topics in Hispanic language and literatures.

ESHI 6561-6562 (On demand). THE NOVEL IN SPANISH AMERICA. Three credit hours per semester. Three hours of lecture per week each semester.

Lectures with textual analysis of the major works in the history of the Spanish-American novel, from its beginnings in the 19th Century to the present.

ESHI 6605. METHODS OF LITERARY CRITICISM I (I). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Literary criticism in the twentieth century; analysis of critical works in the field of Hispanic letters; problems and methods related to the historical and philosophical approaches.

ESHI 6606. METHODS OF LITERARY CRITICISM II (II). Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.

Literary criticism in the twentieth century; analysis of critical works in the field of Hispanic letters; problems and methods related to the linguistic, sociological, and psychological approaches.

A list of professors who engage in graduate activities in the Department follows including the highest earned degree, date, and institution granting the degree. Research and teaching interests are also included.

MARIBEL ACOSTA-LUGO, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2004, University of Connecticut. Research and Teaching Interests: Caribbean Literature.

HILTON ALERS-VALENTIN, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2000, University of Massachussets at Amherst. Research and Teaching Interest: Syntatic Theory, Phonological Theory, Generative Grammar, Historical Linguistics.

ELSA R. ARROYO-VAZQUEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1989, Rutgers University. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American Literature with emphasis on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Literary Theory, Studies of the Female Gender in Literature. Essay Writer.

AMARILIS CARRERO-PEÑA, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2001, The Pennsylvania State University. Research and Teaching Interest: Latin American Literature, Brazilian Literature, Spanish Literature (17th Century-Golden Age). Studies in short story, poetry and novel.

CAMILLE CRUZ-MARTES, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2001, Brown University. Research and Teaching Interest: Hispanic Caribbean and Latin American Colonial Literature.

KATZMIN FELICIANO-CRUZ, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2004, University of Puerto Rico. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Literature.

MANUEL FIGUEROA-MELENDEZ, Associate Professor Ph.D., 1997, University of Puerto Rico. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Literature, Theatre. Novelty Poetry, Love in Literature. Poet, Essay and Short Story Writer.

FRANCISCO GARCIA-MORENO BARCO, Professor, Ph.D., 1992, Michigan State University. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish, Narrative and Writing.

JACQUELINE GIRON-ALVARADO, Professor, Ph.D., 1993, The Pennsylvania State University. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American Poetry and Theater (20th Century). Puerto Rican Literature, Feminist Literature Criticism, Short Story Writer, Poet, Literature Critic.

MIRIAM GONZALEZ-HERNANDEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1994, Florida State University. Research and Teaching Interests: Puerto Rican and Spanish American Literature, Short Story and Writing, Puerto Rican Women Writers.

MAGDA GRANIELA-RODRIGUEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1987, University of Illinois, Urbana. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American, Mexican and Puerto Rican Literature, Novel, Theater, Poetry and Writing. Poet, Essayist and Critc.

JAIME L. MARTELL-MORALES, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2000, State University of New York-Stony Brook. Research and Teaching Interests: Puerto Rican and Spanish American Literature, Latin American Colonial Literature, Literary Theory, Novel and Poetry.

DORIS MARTINEZ-VIZCARRONDO, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1998, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Research and Teaching Interests: Linguistics.

ALFREDO MORALES-NIEVES, Professor, Ph.D., 1987, University of California at Irvine. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American and Hispanic Caribbean Literature. XIX Century, Essay, Philosophy and Studies of Nationhood, Race, Gender in Literature, Writing. Poet and short story writer.

MIGUEL NORBERT-UBARRI, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1999, Universidad de Sevilla. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Mistic and Ascetic Literature.

AMPARO ORTIZ-ACOSTA, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1989, University of Puerto Rico. Research and Teaching Interests: Hispanic Linguistics, Syntax, Writing.

JULIA C. ORTIZ-LUGO, Professor, Ph.D., 1989, Tulane University. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American and Puerto Rican Literature, Modernism, Oral Literature and Writing. Essay Writer.

DAVID L. QUIÑONES-ROMAN, Professor, Ph.D., 1988, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Literature (17th Century-Golden Age Fiction-Cervantes), Spanish Literature (Medieval Period), Spanish American Literature (from Colonial Period to Modernism). Poet.

JOSEFINA RIVERA-DE ALVAREZ, Emeritus Professor, Ph.D., 1954, Universidad Central de Madrid. Research and Teaching Interest: Puerto Rican Literature.

CARMEN M. RIVERA-VILLEGAS, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1997, Vanderbilt University. Research and Teaching Interests: Puerto Rican Poetry and Contemporary Mexican Literature.

AURA N. ROMAN-LOPEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1981, Tulane University. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American Literature, Folklore. Poet.

JORGE MA. RUSCALLEDA-BERCEDONIZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1988, Universidad Autónoma de México. Research and Teaching Interests: Poetry, Novel, Essay, Spanish American and Puerto Rican Literature. Poet and Novelist.

JOSE E. SANTOS-GUZMAN, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1999, Brown University. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Literatures of the 18th and 20th Centuries (Jovellanos, Olavide, Cadalso, Pérez Galdós, Generation of 1898, Spanish Novel from the Post-Civil War Era to the Present); Hispanic Linguistics (Language Variation).

MARIA M. SOLA-FERNANDEZ, Emeritus Professor, Ph.D., 1977, University of Puerto Rico. Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish American Literature, Feminist Literature Criticism, Puerto Rican Literature.