Spanish, Portuguese And Latin American Studies (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

COURSE STRUCTURE

The programme consists of 12 modules of 30 credits each (or the equivalent including 15-credit modules), making a total of 360 credits.

You take 90 credits per year.

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. 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.

YEAR 1

• Spanish 2
• Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
• Understanding Culture: Language and Texts

YEAR 2

• Approaches to Spanish Culture and Society
• Spanish 3
• The Latin American Novel

YEAR 3

• Spanish 4
• Spanish Discourse Analysis
• Survey of Twentieth Century Spanish Art and Film

YEAR 4

• Picturing the African Presence in Early Modern Spain (30 credits)
• Space, Culture and Society in Brazil (Level 6)
• Spanish 5

OPTION MODULES

• Advanced Portuguese Seminar (Level 5)
• Approaches to Spanish Culture and Society
• Art and Empire in the Iberian World
• Exile and Nation in 20th Century 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.

Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.