Graduate programs in Romance Language Studies

[dhok]

Viktor, for god's sake, just find a quick one- or two-year education program, get your education degree, and become a high school French/Spanish teacher.

[Viktor77]

Viktor, for god's sake, just find a quick one- or two-year education program, get your education degree, and become a high school French/Spanish teacher.

I already did that, but I decided it wasn't what I could see myself doing for a 30 year career.

My interests are having a marketable degree in something that pays good and has need of French or Spanish. If a BA is all they care about then that's great, but many professions involving languages I've been told want MAs. I've been told, for example, that to get into translation it's basically a prereq to have a masters, especially one in translational studies.

Obviously I was going to be a college professor in the humanities, but Rory's article kind of freaked me out because of its uncanny accuracy to my current disposition and circumstances.

[Shm Jay]

My interests are having a marketable degree in something that pays good and has need of French or Spanish.

So wouldn't that be a high school French/Spanish teacher?

[Drydic]

Viktor, 30 year careers are dead. 20 year careers are rare.

[Viktor77]

Part of me really just wants to move out west and open a hotel or bed and breakfast in some touristy place. Now I don't even know if I will apply for my MA. Perhaps I am better off finding a job with my BA.

Or sometimes I think I should just get my real estate license. It's a dirty business, but it should be profitable if done right. The problem is opportunities where I live in anything are sparse, but where I live it's so cheap it's hard to justify leaving. When two people with jobs only slightly above minimum wage can afford a house and still have a disposable income, well it's hard to justify leaving those comforts, but opportunities here in anything to create a solid career are sparse and I won't get stuck in a dead-end job.

[Drydic]

I'd advise getting the real estate license no matter what you do. It very well could come in handy.

[dhok]

Bowling Green for example offers an MA in Romance Languages with a focus in French, Spanish, German or any combination of 2 of those languages.

does it now

[Drydic]

Bowling Green for example offers an MA in Romance Languages with a focus in French, Spanish, German or any combination of 2 of those languages.

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[Travis B.]

/me didn't know that German was a Romance language.

[Viktor77]

Bowling Green for example offers an MA in Romance Languages with a focus in French, Spanish, German or any combination of 2 of those languages.

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Ok, it is an MA in one of the above, French or Spanish, with an added secondary concentration in German or History or Spanish or French. Fuck if I know why it's still called an MA in Romance Languages.

[pharazon]

Thomas H. Benton is the pen name of William Pannapacker

Why would Mr. William Pannapacker want to write with anything but his own name??