02/12/2025
Are you interested in applying to the Spanish Master's Program at Fresno State? Please contact Debbie Avila, the Graduate Coordinator, for more information at [email protected].
These are the instructions for applying to the Spanish M.A Program for fall 2025:
1. Fill out an application online through Cal State Apply: https://www2.calstate.edu/apply/Pages/default.aspx
- Follow the instructions, including guidelines about providing transcripts to graduate school if you have graduated from another university
- Make sure that you are applying to be a graduate student in the fall
- We do not require the GRE
- You must have a minimum 3.0 GPA
2. Turn in the application package online to the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Debbie Ávila ([email protected]), before or by April 15th. Include the following in your application:
- Three letters of recommendation
- A personal statement, which should be approximately 500 words, in English or Spanish. The statement of purpose should explain your goals and your interest in an M.A. in Spanish.
- A writing sample in Spanish. It can be a 10-12 page-essay written for one of your classes, or two essays (5-6 pages each). * Include your name as the title of your Word document, but please remove all references to the class and professor in the essay/s, as well as your name. Members of the graduate Spanish faculty will review the essay/s blindly.
Please send application package by email with several Word docs attached: statement, writing samples and letters of recommendation if you have a copy of the letters yourselves. If recommenders wish to send letters directly to the Program coordinator, please ask recommenders to use the following subject line in the email:
Fall 2025 MA in Spanish Application – [name of applicant]
Deadline:
For Fall 2025 – April 15, 2025. You must first apply online through Cal State Apply, and then all program application materials required for your degree program (e.g., letters of intent, letters of recommendation, program application, etc.) should be submitted online directly to the graduate coordinator, Dr. Debbie Ávila, at [email protected]
Prerequisites:
- There are some undergraduate required classes. If the student has not taken them (for instance, when coming from a different University or with a degree that is not Spanish), the coordinator will assign some prerequisites that would need to be fulfilled (or sometimes waived depending on performance as M.A. students).
Span 119 – Advanced Grammar
Span 121A – Advanced Composition
Span 121B – Advanced Composition
Span 140 – Introduction to Literary Analysis
Span 142 – Introduction to Spanish Literature
Span 143 – Introduction to Spanish American Literature
Important webpages to consult:
Financial Aid: https://studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/financialaid/index.html
Deadlines: http://fresnostate.edu/academics/gradstudies/deadlines.html
Other helpful info: http://fresnostate.edu/academics/gradstudies/index.html
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