Spanish And Latin American Studies With International Experience (Ba): 4-Year, Full-Time

COURSE STRUCTURE

The programme consists of 12 modules of 30 credits each (or the equivalent including 15-credit modules), plus the year abroad which is worth 60 credits' Accredited Prior Learning, making a total of 420 credits.

The structure of your degree and the number of language modules that you take, vis-à-vis literature and culture modules, will vary depending on your language starting level. In Years 1, 2 and 4 you will take 120 credits per year. If Year 3 (study abroad) is successfully completed you will be awarded 60 credits which is a requirement if you are to be awarded a degree ‘with International Experience’.

Also, depending on your language level at entry, you can take up to four modules outside the programme, in consultation with your programme director. You need to complete a minimum of eight modules from this programme.

A typical set of modules, divided by year, might look like this:

YEAR 1

• Latin American Film (Level 4)
• Spanish 3
• Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
• Understanding Culture: Language and Texts

YEAR 2

• Approaches to Spanish Culture and Society
• Spanish 4
• The Latin American Novel
• The Urban Experience in Brazil

YEAR 4

• Picturing the African Presence in Early Modern Spain (30 credits)
• Project, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
• Spanish 5
• Spanish Pragmatics (Level 6)

OPTION MODULES

• Aesthetics and Politics: International Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
• Approaches to Spanish Culture and Society
• Art and Empire in the Iberian World
• Exile and Nation in 20th Century Spain
• Iberian Political Cultures: Approaches to Modern Portugal and Spain
• Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
• Introduction to Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Narrative
• Latin American Film
• Luso-Brazilian Cultures
• Picturing the African Presence in Early Modern Spain (30 credits)
• Power and Control in Spanish Golden Age Art
• Project, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
• Space, Culture and Society in Brazil (Level 6)
• Spanish Discourse Analysis
• Spanish Pragmatics (Level 6)
• Survey of Twentieth Century Spanish Art and Film
• The Auteurist Tradition in Spanish Cinema
• The Latin American Novel
• The Spanish Noir: Crime and Detection in Contemporary Fiction
• The Urban Experience in Brazil

Please note that not all modules are available every year; the list above is indicative.

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