B.A. Spanish with Theatre and Performance (Hons)

Module structure

• Spanish Language I
• Spanish Language II
• Skills for Language Specialists
• Contemporary Spain I

• Interdisciplinary research

Compulsory modules:

• Introduction to Theatre and Performance
• The Theatrical Text
• Production: An Introduction

Compulsory module:

• Spanish Language III
• Contemporary Spain II

Plus 30 credits from:

• Introduction to Sociolinguistics
• Translation Spanish to English II
• English in the Media
• Introduction to Audio-Visual Translation
• Translation English to Spanish II
• Introduction to Computer-Assisted Translation
• Translation Quality Assurance

• Enhancing interdisciplinary skills

Compulsory modules:

• Performing Space
• Theatrical Revolutions
• Working in the Arts

Professional Training placement year, taken as a professional work placement and / or period of study abroad. Your activities during this period will be relevant to your Major subject (unless otherwise stated).

• Personal and Professional Development
• Evaluation of Placement Learning
• Transfer of Placement Learning

Compulsory module:

• Dissertation

Plus at least 30 credits from:

• Language Diversity
• Spanish in a Business Environment
• Translation Spanish to English III
• Interpreting (Spanish - English)
• Critical Concepts and Theories of Translation
• Introduction to Translation Theory
• Translation English to Spanish III
• Spanish Sociolinguistics
• The Arts in the Spanish-speaking World

• Research and Reflection
• Acting: Actor and Audience
• Special Topic
• Production: Theory, Design, Practice
• International Arts Programming

How you'll split your time

You'll find your lectures and tutorials extremely stimulating, but a Surrey degree is so much more than just your classroom learning.

The information below details some of the extra opportunities and advantages of becoming a Surrey student. Naturally, many of these will be defined by your choice of Major (such as where you spend your Professional Training placement), but don't forget that your Minor will also add a valuable dimension to your Surrey experience.

The Professional Training Year is an integral part of our programmes. You spend the third year of your degree in the countries of the languages you study, working in a new exciting environment, studying at some of the most renowned continental universities, learning more about others and about yourself. You normally spend 46 weeks on placement. The Professional Training Year can be arranged for one or two countries, depending on programme requirements and your interests.

We have an experienced placement team that helps you to obtain the placements most suitable for your degree. Our placement co-ordinators have kept contacts with foreign companies for many years, and are establishing new ones all the time. The choice of destinations is wide, with placement providers in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Peru.

We have links with internationally renowned companies and institutions such as Eurosport, Hilton Hotels. If you opt for a study placement, you can choose from a number of universities with which we have Erasmus+ agreements. These include universities in Castellón and Madrid.

Preparation starts in the first year when you learn about the cultures and societies related to your chosen languages and practise CV writing and presentation techniques. In the second year, placement preparation intensifies, with a series of workshops and seminars especially developed by the placement team, accompanied by individual meetings with the placement co-ordinators of your chosen languages. In these meetings, you identify the placements best suited to ensure your academic, professional and personal development.

In the case of work placements, your placement co-ordinator helps you with the application process, from CV writing and interview practice in the target language through to signing the contract.

Throughout the second year, you attend a series of workshops focusing on specific aspects of your year abroad. The topics covered are skills development and on-placement online support, as well as intercultural communication, business culture, financial matters and accommodation, and other relevant aspects of daily life in a foreign country covered in country-specific workshops.

You are also invited to presentations given by final-year students returning from their placements to hear first-hand accounts and to find out more about what it is like to live in a particular country, town or city.

Once abroad, your placement co-ordinators are available for you if you need help or advice. They keep in regular contact with you and also visit you on your placements, up to three times during your whole year. These visits serve to discuss your progress, to address any issues that may have arisen and to advise you on how best to prepare for your final year at university.

Upon successful completion of your Professional Training Year, you will have improved your language skills and found out more about the people whose languages and cultures you study, and you will also have gained more life experience, independence and self-confidence. This will help you to focus your studies and career planning, and you will have acquired the skills that employers value.