The Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures (CMLL) at Mississippi State University is a dynamic and growing M.A. program in Foreign Languages (French, German, and Spanish). CMLL currently offers both a traditional face-to-face program and, coming in Fall 2020, a fully online MA.

Our graduate courses focuses on literature, culture, and film, with a strong foundation in language pedagogy. Our program provides an extremely flexible and interdisciplinary course of study. We also work with the English department to provide instruction in linguistics to interested students. Our M.A. students can also obtain, while working towards their degree, a teaching license, with a specially-designed Pathway to Licensure in World Languages.

The majority of our M.A. students work for the department as Teaching Assistants, which covers the cost of their education and pays them a stipend for living expenses. Roughly one-third of our graduates go into teaching at the secondary or post-secondary levels, and another quarter of our graduates continue study in a Ph.D. program. Several of our graduates have also pursued work abroad following the completion of their degree. The department works to ensure that its graduate students receive advising related to academic and career options, and our faculty is happy to help cater the program to best position its students for future success. The department has also encouraged its graduate students to help coordinate its summer study abroad programs with an experienced faculty member, or to attend programs and earn graduate credit, with financial assistance. Overall, the program is designed to allow students the flexibility to earn a Master's degree that will best position them for their future, with faculty that are fully invested in the success of the department's graduates.

• Spanish
• French
• German