Film studies and hispanic studies ba (hons)

Structure

The Spanish language modules you take will depend on your entry level. We offer separate classes for beginner, post-GCSE, post-A-level and native speakers.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1

• Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
• Film: Approaches and Analysis
• Film: Concepts and History
• Introduction to Hispanic Studies
• Spanish language module (streamed according to entry level)

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Spanish language module (streamed according to entry level)
• What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

• Film Curation
• Film, Literature and Adaption
• Introduction to British Cinema
• Memories of the Holocaust and Colonialism in French Cinema
• Scriptwriting: Adaptation and Original Script
• The French New Wave

• Brazilian Cinema: The Social Tradition
• Catalan Literature: An Introduction
• Colonialism and Culture in Latin America
• Cuban Poetry and Fiction: Post 1980
• Culture and Society in Medieval Spain: Christian, Jews and Muslims
• Introduction to Translation Studies: Catalan, Spanish, English
• Introductory Catalan
• Introductory Portuguese
• Literature, Dictatorship and Cultural Memory in the Hispanic World
• Modern Spanish Fiction
• The Spanish Inquisition

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

• Year abroad

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 4 Compulsory

• Spanish language module

• British Cinema from the 1960s New wave to the Arrival of Channel 4
• Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
• Ecocinemas: Nature, Animals and the Moving Image
• Film and Ethics
• Film Archaeology
• Film Philosophy
• Reading German Film III: Contemporary German Cinema

• Advanced Oral Competence in Spanish
• Catalan II Intensive
• Cervantes and the Nature of Fiction
• Languages in the Classroom: Teaching Spanish
• Modern Languages Research Project
• Portuguese II Intensive
• Slavery, Colonialism and Postcolonialism in African Cinema
• Spanish Translation: Theory and Practice
• Subversive Humour in Modern Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film
• The Mexican Revolution and its Aftermath
• War, Humour and Love in Medieval Spanish Literature

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

You have three options for how to spend your year abroad:

• teaching English as a foreign language assistant
• attending university - we have partner universities in Spain, Latin America and Colombia
• in the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.

We have partner institutions in Spain (Almería, Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Seville, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, and Vigo), Latin America (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico) and Colombia (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá).