B.A. Hispanic Studies and Drama (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:

• Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape
• The Empty Space
• Learning Spanish 3 (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:

• Learning Spanish 3B(Intensive Post A-Level)
• Theatres of the Past 2: The Moderns
• Theatre and Music
• European Naturalist Theatre & Its Legacy
• Physical Theatre
• Acting
• Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
• Shakespeare's Theatre
• Contemporary Spanish Cinema
• 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
• The Legacy of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

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.

Possible modules may include:

• Year Abroad Module

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• Introduction to Stand Up
• Creative Project
• Theatre & Adaptation
• Playwriting I: For Beginners
• Cultural Policies in the British Theatre
• Dance & Discourse: Dramaturgies of Moving Bodies
• Applied Theatre
• Performing Classical Texts
• New Directions
• Theatre & Journalism
• Performing Lives: Theory & Practice of Autobiographical Theatre
• Performing Philosophy
• Terrorism and State Terror in Latin America
• Reading Monstrosity in Iberian Culture
• Gender and Sexuality in Afro-Luso-Brazilian Cinema