I completed the Middlebury program and it is NOT an MA in literature at all. It is an MA in the Spanish language. You can complete a summer in Vermont and a year in Madrid.
Curriculum and Degree Requirements
Graduate courses are numbered to indicate level of difficulty. Students are informed of their preliminary placement level in the pre-registration information sent upon enrollment in the School. To complete the placement process, an Oral Proficiency Interview will be administered to all new graduate students.
Requirements for the M.A. for students accepted to candidacy beginning with the 1999 session of the Spanish School are as follows:
Summer of application: the three courses must include one language course at the proper placement level, the Literary Theory or Literary Analysis course, and a third course at the appropriate level, selected from the offerings in culture and civilization, literature, or professional preparation areas. Students placed at 501 must take 505 as the third course.
All candidates for the M.A. degree are required to take the following courses:
a. Two courses in Spanish or Latin American civilization and culture.
b. Three language/linguistics courses (401 may not be counted as one of these. Students enrolled in 401 must return for another summer session and place in 501 or 502 before gaining admission to the graduate program in Spain.)
c. 560 Literary Analysis (or 660 Literary Theory with permission)
d. Three literature courses (560/660 may not be counted as one of these). For students not going to Madrid, 583 or 584 and 585 or 586 are required courses.
e. The other three courses are electives. (Candidates preparing for a teaching career are advised to take at least one course in the area of professional preparation.)
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GOOD LUCK,
Shawn[addsig]
