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Department of Spanish and Portugese
Graduate Outcomes Assessment
Spring 2003
Submitted by Emilio Bejel, Chair
Graduate Program improvements in the last two to three years:
The Graduate Program of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at CU has
made great improvements in the last two to three years. The most dramatic
improvement has been the hiring of four excellent assistant professors: Juan
Pablo Dabove (Latin Americanist), Leila Lehnen (Brazilianist), Esther Brown
(Linguist), and Vincent Barletta (Arabic-Medievalist). Although two of them were
replacements of senior professors and a third one was a conversion of a senior
instructor who retired a year ago, it is nevertheless a considerable achievement
for our department to have been able to hire our first choices for these
positions.
Other achievements of our graduate program have been the 100% placement of
our graduates, both at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels. The last two Ph.D. graduates
have just signed contracts with Texas A&M University and the University of
Tulsa. This is the result of the constant improvement of our job-training
program for graduating students. We conduct mock filmed interviews with each one
of them and several other exercises that prepare them very well for the MLA
interviews.
In addition, our graduate curriculum has been expanded to include
cutting-edge topics like Spanish film, gay/lesbian studies, women studies,
cultural studies, and the like. We continue receiving a good number of
applications from excellent prospective graduate students, and we are able to
bring most of those we accept. Our Graduate Associate Chair makes sure to
contact each one of the finalists so that we can try to bring them to
our program. We have also provided a small amount of financial assistance for
those prospective students who want to visit our campus before deciding whether
to accept our offer or go to another university.
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