Hispanic studies and comparative literature ba (hons)

Structure

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

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1

• Critical Thinking and Writing for Comparative Literature
• Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
• Introduction to Comparison
• Introduction to Hispanic Studies
• Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
• Spanish language module (streamed according to entry level)
• The Scene of Learning
• Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Spanish language module (streamed according to entry level)
• The Scene of Reading

• Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
• Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
• Fairy Tales in the Modern World
• Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Literature and Philosophy
• Madness, Past and Present
• Migration through Photography
• Photography and Narrative
• Presentations of London in Modern European Literature and Film
• Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives

• 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
• The Scene of Writing

• Comparative Literature Research Project
• Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
• Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
• Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
• First World War Literatures
• Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
• Lost in Translation?
• On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
• Photography: The Self and its Image
• The East in the West

• 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 the year abroad:

• teaching English as a foreign language assistant
• attending university
• in the professional world, either on a work placement, with our support, or independently, with our approval.

You could also split your time abroad between two countries and two different placements.

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).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary.