Romance Languages and Literature M.A.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to meet a range of works and writing needs by demonstrating the ability to describe with details and good control of aspects, to write straightforward commentaries on topics of general interest or documents (printed aural, visual). The graduate writing competence exhibits a good control of the target-language syntactic structures, a variety of cohesive devices in written assignments and essays of significant scope and length; it recognizes the subtleties of literary genres and the intricacy of cultural discourses.

2. Upon completion of the M.A. degree, students should be able to understand a wide range of literary works and other writings in the arts and social theories to expand on all aspects of linguistic comfort through rhetorical, aesthetic, ideological, and/or journalistic discourses. A good critical thinking competence develops an appreciation for the subtleties of literary genres and allows for a wealth of ideas likely to inspire their own social and professional lives.

3. Upon completion of the M.A. degree, students should be able to comprehend the making of a national culture from their language of study with meaningful historical events, its intellectual heritage, institutional structures and modern society, through the study of documents (printed, aural, visual) in a variety of mediums (film, video clips, artworks) and contemporary forms of expression (popular culture, media, songs).