English Literature and Spanish BA Honours
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
At Westminster we train competent linguists in modern languages ready to enter graduate employment. We place particular emphasis on employability and the contemporary cultural context, and offer high-quality teaching in all language skills.
This course will enable you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic competence in Spanish in all four skill areas (reading, writing, listening and speaking), enhance your skills in using English, and develop your knowledge and understanding of literary and cultural studies. You will be able to function in different cultural situations and acquire the generic qualities and skills of a humanities graduate. You will also gain the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.
We accept students at three different entry points – beginner, intermediate and proficient. Please note that we may need to test you to determine your entry point.
Course content.
You will study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. You will develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Spanish, proficiency in language transfer skills, a thorough knowledge of Spanish culture, and the ability to function linguistically in diverse cultural situations. In English Literature you will have the opportunity to examine literary and non-literary works of all periods from Shakespeare to the present day, taking in a wide range of authors and themes, with a full and balanced coverage of dramatic, poetic and prose works. You will consider the wider historical and political contexts in which cultural and literary works have been produced and received, and relate the works both to intellectual history and to work in other arts and media, such as architecture and the visual arts. You will also have the opportunity to consider the theoretical tools of...
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Subjects
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- Works
- Cultural Studies
- English
- Writing
- Communication Training
- Shakespeare
Course programme
The following subjects are indicative of what you will study on this course. For more details on course structure and modules, and how you will be taught and assessed, see the full course document.
Year 1 (Credit Level 4)
Subjects of study include:
Intercultural Communication: an Introduction
Introduction to the Study of Language and Culture
Keywords for Literary Studies
Objects and Meaning: World Cultures in London Galleries and Museums
Poetry and Politics
Shakespeare and Performance
The Spanish World and the Word
What Is Literature? Genre Form History
Year 2 (Credit Level 5)
Subjects of study include:
Culture(s) and Conflict(s): Representations of War, Conflict and Revolution Across World Cultures
Expressions of Spanish Culture
Language, Power and Institutions: Decoding Dominant Narratives
Making Memory: Culture, History and Representation
Monsters
Screening Memory Through Food, Music and Childhood
The Nineteenth Century
The Novel
Transposing Current Affairs through Multilingual e-Collaboration
Travel Sickness
Work Placement/Work Shadowing Experience in a Language/Culture Setting
Writing Revolutions
Year 3 (Credit Level 6)
Subjects of study include:
Developing Career Competences for Linguists
Dreaming the Same Dream? Concepts of Happiness Across Cultures
Gender Matters: Femininities, Masculinities and Trans-Cultural Practice
Issues in Theory
MLC Dissertation
Modernism
Narrating the Other: Politics and Literature
People and Things on the Move: Identity, Place and Memory in and Across Diasporic Spaces
Satire and the City
Special Topic
Themes in Spanish Studies
Tragedy: Ancient to Modern
What is the Contemporary? The Novel in Time After 1945
The Course content.
is listed by year, corresponding to the full-time mode of study. If you study part-time you will study the same content, spread over five years.
Westminster electives
As part of your course you can take elective modules. Electives are an exciting opportunity to widen your experience at university and to gain skills and knowledge that will help make you more employable.
English Literature and Spanish BA Honours