BA English and Spanish (4 years)

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
On this joint degree in English and Spanish you will explore English literature and critical theory, alongside Spanish culture, politics and history. The third year of this four year degree will be spent in a Spanish-speaking country as an English language assistant, studying on a university course, or on an approved work placement. Careers in fashion, journalism, financial services, management and administration, teaching, travel and tourism, creative writing, and many other areas have been entered into by graduates of this course.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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Subjects

  • Spanish Language
  • English Language
  • Politics
  • Credit
  • English
  • University
  • Writing
  • Joint

Course programme

Year 1

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

You will choose four modules each semester. You should take at least one English module in semester one, and two English modules in semester two. One module in each semester will normally be your Spanish language course.

Spanish:
You will normally choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester. However, you may opt to take a single module in an alternative subject.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
SPAN9010 Spanish Language Stage 4

Compulsory

LANG1017

Academic Skills for ML students

Optional

ENGL1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Poetic Language

ENGL1085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Multimedia Old English: Song, Skin and Cyberspace

ENGL1086Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Act of the Essay

ENGL1089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Novel

PORT1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to The Portuguese-Speaking World

SPAN1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The History and Politics of the Hispanic World

SPAN1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to the Languages of the Spanish-Speaking World

SPAN1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Narrative and Cultural Identity in the Hispanic World

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
SPAN9010 Spanish Language Stage 4

Optional

ENGL1079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Stage and Screen: An Introduction

ENGL1080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Literary Transformations

ENGL1087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Group Research Project

ENGL1090Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Theory & Criticism

LANG1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reading Culture

LANG1013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reading the City

LING1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning

LING1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applications of Linguistics

Year 2

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

English:
Students should normally choose three (one double and two single) optional English modules (ENGL) in the year.

Spanish:
Students should normally choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester (SPAN / PORT / LING / LANG). You must choose at least one SPAN module in the year.

LANG2010 is a compulsory fifth module for all second year students taking a Modern Languages degree, whether single or joint honours. You may replace one single English module in one semester and one optional single Spanish module in the other semester with a single module in an alternative subject.

You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15 credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English; the other the equivalent credits in Spanish.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
SPAN9011 Spanish Language Stage 5

Compulsory

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

Optional

ENGL2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Romanticism

ENGL2011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women, Writing and Modernity in Britain, 1790 - 1865

ENGL2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Jewish Fictions

ENGL2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Children's Literature

ENGL2029Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern Drama Since the Second World War

ENGL2046Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Images of Africa in Literature and Culture

ENGL2051Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Objects of Desire

ENGL2073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Visions of Beowulf: new encounters with Anglo-Saxon culture

ENGL2077Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Money and Meaning in American Fiction

ENGL2080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England

ENGL2083Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Tales of Travel c.1000-1650: Idylls, Utopias, Monsters, and Cannibals

ENGL2091Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain

ENGL2092Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women Writers Remixed ca. 1850-1915

ENGL2094Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Victorian Feelings

FILM2019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women and Hollywood

PHIL1019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Puzzles about Art and Literature

GERM2006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present

LANG2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State

LANG2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography

LING2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Psycholinguistics

LING2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Syntax: Studying Language Structure

LING2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Discourse Analysis

LING2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Sound and Voice (see also ISVR2016: Speech Sciences and Lip-Reading)

SPAN2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

SPAN2006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

High, Popular and Mass Culture in Modern Spain

SPAN2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Power and Discourse in Spanish-speaking societies

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
SPAN9011 Spanish Language Stage 5

Compulsory

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

Optional

ENGL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern American Poetry

ENGL2010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Postcolonial Texts and Contexts

ENGL2061Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

The Nineteenth-Century Novel

ENGL2063Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Problems in Shakespeare: text, print and performance

ENGL2075Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories

ENGL2076Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Creative Writing after Modernism

ENGL2078Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Scriptwriting

ENGL2079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Contemporary Women's Writing

ENGL2085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Enlightenment Body

ENGL2089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Poems, Books and Anthologies

ENGL2093Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Contemporary Fiction and Visual Culture

ENGL2095Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Patriots and Cosmopolitans: African modes of belonging

ENGL2096Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Making New York Modern

ENGL2097Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Arthurian Worlds

PHIL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Aesthetics

LANG2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The EU and European Identity

LING2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

LING2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Multilingualism

SPAN2010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Exploring Spanish Linguistics

SPAN2011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Myths and Realities of Contemporary Spain

SPAN2014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ethnography of Latin America

HUMA2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Humanities University Ambassadors Scheme (Modern Languages)

Year 3

You will spend the year abroad in a country where Spanish is spoken, either as:

  • an English language assistant
  • studying on a university course
  • on an approved work placement

Investigative Project:
Independent study project (6,000 words) supervised by a member of staff

Further information:
Year abroad

Year 4

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

English:
If you wish to do an English dissertation in semester two, you will normally take EITHER two single English modules OR one double English module to take in semester one. If you do not wish to take an English dissertation, you will normally choose one double English module in semester one and two single English modules in semester two.

Spanish:
You will normally choose one optional Modern Languages unit in each semester (SPAN / PORT / LING / LANG). You must choose at least one SPAN unit in the year. You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15 credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in Spanish.

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You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15-credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English; the other the equivalent credits in Spanish.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
SPAN9013 Spanish Language Stage 7

Compulsory

LANG3011

Seeing and being seen: Study Abroad re-entry

Optional

ENGL3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Rakes and Libertines

ENGL3004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Writing the Novel

ENGL3015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS)

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