B.A. Hispanic Studies and Italian (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

• History of Italian Cinema:The Legacy of Neo-Realism
• Writing Italy through the Centuries:An Introduction
• Learning Italian - Beginners
• Learning Italian (Post A Level)
• Learning Spanish (Post A Level)
• Intensive Learning Spanish 1 (Beginners)
• Introduction to Hispanic Culture

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• Italian Extended Essay
• Italian Short Story
• Catching the Tide: Cultural Renewal in 20th Century Italy
• Learning Spanish 3B(Intensive Post A-Level)
• Second Year Extended Essay
• After Dictatorship: Spain and Latin America
• Dictatorship and Cultural Production in 20th Century Brazil & Portugal
• Barcelona and Havana: Icon, Myth and History

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Year abroad

The University of Kent has Erasmus agreements with several universities in Spain and Latin America and in Italy.

Possible modules may include:

• Year Abroad Module

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• Istantanea: Photography and Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary I
• Learning Italian Through Literature
• Italian Gangsters: Literary and Cinematic Representations of Crime in T
• Italian Dissertation
• Languages in the Classroom
• Terrorism and State Terror in Latin America
• Final Year Dissertation
• Gender and Sexuality in Afro-Luso-Brazilian Cinema
• Reading Monstrosity in Iberian Culture
• Writing the Cuban Revolution
• Barcelona and Havana: Icon, Myth and History