BA Spanish and History RV41

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1

Core modules include:

• Spanish language (at beginners’ or advanced level)
• Directed Study in History
• Landmarks in History 1
• Landmarks in History 2
• Study Skills in History

Optional modules include:

• Icons of Spain and Latin America 1
• Approaches to History

Comparative modules include:

• The Making of Modern Europe (1): Europe to 1945
• The Making of Modern Europe (2): Europe since 1945
• Greats of European Cinema
• Introduction to linguistics

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 2

Core modules include:

• Spanish language (at beginners' or advanced level)
• Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
• My Career: Working It Out
• Public History: Its Uses and Abuses

Optional modules include:

• Icons of Spain and Latin America 2
• Modules in the culture, history and politics of Spain or Latin America
• Period in Early Modern History: Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
• Period in Early Modern History: Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
• Period in Medieval History: Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
• Period in Medieval History: Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
• Period in Modern History: Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
• Period in Modern History: Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
• Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
• Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
• Period in Early Modern History: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
• Period in Medieval History: Women of the Medieval World
• Period in Modern History: American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
• ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

Comparative modules include:

• Society, thought, and art in Modern Europe
• Unity, nationalism and regionalism in Europe
• Science, perversion, and dream in global fantastic literature
• Love in Medieval Renaissance

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 3

You can choose from three options for your third year: studying at a partner institution through the Erasmus+ programme, undertaking a work placement or working as a British Council language teaching assistant.

Our Spanish partner institutions include universities in Alcalá de Henares, Bilbao, Oviedo, Salamanca, and Valladolid. You can also choose to study in Havana, Cuba or at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Cholula, Mexico. The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies has a study abroad officer who can help you prepare for study at one of these universities.

You can also talk to the Department's specialist year abroad team, who can provide you with support in securing and preparing for a placement.

Throughout the degree, you will receive guidance on careers and will have the opportunity to think about what you would like to do and the skills you will need to do it. If you are interested in a teaching career, the "History education" module offers training and two weeks’ classroom experience.

Year 4

Core modules include:

• Advanced Spanish language

Optional modules include:

• Spanish for management and business
• Modules in the culture, history and politics of Spain or Latin America
• Dissertation
• Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
• Cold War Berlin: Politics and Culture in a Divided City, 1945-65, A
• Cold War Berlin: Politics and Culture in a Divided City, 1945-65, B
• Cults and Miracles; the Powers of Sanctity, 1066-1215, A
• Cults and Miracles; the Powers of Sanctity, 1066-1215, B
• Deviance and Discipline: Church and Outcasts in the Central Middle Ages, A
• Deviance and Discipline: Church and Outcasts in the Central Middle Ages, B
• From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
• From Louis the Fat to Louis the Saint: The Image of Kingship in Capetian France, A
• From Louis the Fat to Louis the Saint: The Image of Kingship in Capetian France, B
• Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
• Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
• Making Revolution: Russia, 1905-1929, A
• Making Revolution: Russia, 1905-1929, B
• Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
• Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe, A
• Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe, B
• Slavery in America, A
• Slavery in America, B
• The Countryside in English Culture, c.1750-1939, A
• The Countryside in English Culture, c.1750-1939, B
• The Interregnum in Britain and Ireland, 1649-1660, A
• The Interregnum in Britain and Ireland, 1649-1660, B
• The Last Super Power and the New World Power: the United States and China in the Historical Context, A
• The Last Super Power and the New World Power: the United States and China in the Historical Context, B
• The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
• Victorian Lives, A
• Victorian Lives, B
• Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
• Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
• Discovering Archives and Collections
• European Case Studies (3)
• France and Europe since 1945
• History Education
• Ireland and the English in the middle ages
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
• Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
• Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
• The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
• The United States and the Cold War
• new Modern Topic

Comparative modules include:

• EU Case studies I
• EU Case studies II
• EU Case studies III
• Cinemas of the World
• 19th Century European Novel
• Language and Power

Please note that all modules are subject to change.