The Department accepts postgraduate students to read for MPhil and PhD degrees in French and Spanish. The MPhil and PhD are degrees mainly by thesis, but students have to complete a number of courses prior to commencing their research. MPhil and PhD candidates are required to take 9 credits of taught Graduate courses chosen from the following Departments: Modern Languages and Literatures, Literatures in English and School of Education (for Spanish/French Language Teaching) and a thesis. The following areas are available for thesis research. Comparative analysis is welcome.
 
French

• The French Language in the Caribbean
• Teaching French as a Foreign Language
  
• Caribbean Literature in French
• French and Francophone Literature
• African Literature in French
• Translation Studies
  

Spanish                                 

• 20th Century Spanish Novel
• Spanish Caribbean Literature
• Central American Literature
• Diaspora and Migration Issues in Hispanic Literatur
• Gender and Feminism in Hispanic Literature
• Latin American Cinema
• Teaching Spanish as Foreign Language
• Afro-Hispanic Literature
• Translation Studies

French & Spanish & or English

• Comparative study of Caribbean Literatures in Spanish, French and English

M.Phil and Ph.D. candidates are required to take 9 credits of taught Graduate courses offered by the Department of Literatures in English. 

Students conducting research on French language teaching and learning shall take these credits in the School of Education.