Advanced Spanish Studies, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate (Beginning Fall 2025)
The post-baccalaureate certificate in advanced Spanish studies is intended to appeal to our regional and local teachers who are currently employed in the classroom (with an M.A.T. or M.A. in Education) but who would like to obtain the 15 graduate credit hours commensurate with a pay increase and/or the 18 graduate credit hours in their content area that would allow them to teach dual-credit coursework.
Admission Requirements
- Undergraduate Spanish major (or equivalent)
Application Requirements
All application materials must be submitted through the Office of Graduate Admission.
- Application form and fee
- Official transcripts (in English)
- Résumé or curriculum vitae (in English)
- Three letters of professional recommendation assessing the applicant's potential for graduate study
- Professional goal statement: This 1000-word statement should be in Spanish. The candidate should describe professional and intellectual goals and specific reasons for interest in graduate studies in Spanish, and demonstrate how these goals align with the curricula offered by SLU’s M.A. program.
- Writing sample: This 10-page piece may be in English or Spanish, can be an excerpt from a longer piece and should demonstrate the candidate’s capacity for graduate-level academic work.
- Interview in Spanish
Requirements for International Students
All admission policies and requirements for domestic students apply to international students. International students must also meet the following additional requirements:
- Demonstrate English Language Proficiency
- Academic records, in English translation, of students who have undertaken postsecondary studies outside the United States must include:
- Courses taken and/or lectures attended
- Practical laboratory work
- The maximum and minimum grades attainable
- The grades earned or the results of all end-of-term examinations
- Any honors or degrees received.
- WES and ECE transcripts are accepted.
- In order to be issued an I-20 for your F-1 visa application, students must submit financial documents. Proof of financial support that must include:
- A letter of financial support from the person(s) or sponsoring agency funding the student's time at Saint Louis University
- A letter from the sponsor's bank verifying that the funds are available and will be so for the duration of the student's study at the University
Application Deadlines
To be given priority consideration, complete applications must be received by
- April 1 for the fall semester (classes beginning in August)
- October 1 for the spring semester (classes beginning in January)
Review Process
Each item listed above is taken into careful consideration by the examining committee before making admission recommendations.
Tuition
| Tuition | Cost Per Credit |
|---|---|
| Graduate Tuition | $1,370 |
Additional charges may apply. Other resources are listed below:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Literatures & Cultures | 6 | |
| Select at least 2 courses (6 credits) from the following categories: | ||
Latin American Studies | ||
| Short Stories: History, Histories | ||
| Latin American 'Modernismo' | ||
| Contemporary Latin American Poetry | ||
| Early Latin American Novel | ||
| Boom, Mass Media and Utopia | ||
| The African Experience in Spanish America | ||
| Narratives on the End of Utopias | ||
| Identities of the Other in 19th-c. Latin American Narrative | ||
| Counter Hegemony Discourses | ||
| Written by Herself: Latin American Women Writers | ||
| Latin American Film | ||
| Cultural Stereotypes: Latin America | ||
| Strangers in a Familiar Land: Displacements in Latin America | ||
| Hispanic Short-Short Stories (May count for either Latin American Studies or Peninsular Studies, but not both) | ||
Peninsular Studies | ||
| Hispanic Short-Short Stories (May count for either Latin American Studies or Peninsular Studies, but not both) | ||
| Don Quixote by Cervantes | ||
| Contemporary Spanish Short Story | ||
| Twentieth-Century Poetry | ||
| Twentieth-Century Novel | ||
| Twentieth-Century Drama | ||
| From the Poetry of Knowledge to the Poetry of the Turn of the Century | ||
| Spanish Novel After 1970 | ||
| Spanish Literature and Film | ||
| Verbum: the Journey of Women Poets in Contemporary Spain | ||
| Contemporary Spanish Women Writers | ||
| Medieval Short Stories: Power, Wisdom and Fantasy in Tales | ||
| Linguistics & Pedagogy | 6 | |
| Select at least 2 courses (6 credits) from the following categories: | ||
Linguistics | ||
| Spanish in the World | ||
| Spanish Linguistics | ||
| Spanish Phonology and Its Place in the Classroom | ||
Pedagogy | ||
| Methods of Teaching Spanish | ||
| Methods of Teaching Spanish I: Best Practices and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom | ||
| Methods of Teaching Spanish II: Assessment and Language Learner Contexts | ||
| Elective | 3 | |
| Select 1 course (minimum 3 credits) of SPAN 5000-level courses from any of the categories above. | ||
| Total Credits | 15 | |