Spanish & Portuguese with a year abroad

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

Overview
Study Spanish and Portuguese languages as well as Hispanic and Lusophone cultures on a degree in the heart of London. Our department is active in all fields of Hispanic and Lusophone studies, offering an unrivalled variety of topics for study, from the medieval to the contemporary, on literature, linguistics, art, history, popular music, film, theatre and translation. The degree accepts applications from those with A Levels in Spanish or Portuguese or complete beginners in one of the languages. The degree is based in London whilst the year abroad is normally split between a Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking country.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.
Key benefits
Our courses are taught by world-class lecturers in a friendly and well-resourced environment.
Our wide range of modules cover language, literature, history, film, visual arts, music, from the Middle Ages to our present day.
The King’s College London library provides all the resources you need, including the most complete collection of material on Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking Africa available in any UK university.
Our central London location offers you access to the wealth of London’s research institutes, cultural centres and events..
The year abroad requirement helps you become fluent speakers and enhance your awareness and experience of cultural difference. We have exchanges with a number of Spanish-speaking partner universities currently including Alicante, Cadiz, Carlos III (Madrid), Córdoba, País Vasco, Pompeu Fabra, PUC (Chile), Tec (Querétaro, Mexico), Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus), UNAM (Mexico), Pacifico (Peru), Salamanca and San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Spanish Language
  • Portuguese Language
  • Music

Course programme


Year 1

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

Required Modules

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits)

• Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)

• Global Iberias (30 credits)

Optional Modules

Select two (totalling 30 credits) from a range of optional Spanish modules, which may typically include:

  • Image: Visual Culture in the Global Iberias (15 credits)
  • Introduction to Modern Hispanic Culture (15 credits)
  • From Frontier to Empire: Cultures in Contact in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Worlds (15 credits)
  • Music of the Lusophone and Hispanic Worlds (15 credits)


Year 2

Year 2 Required Modules

  • Spanish Language II (30 credits)
  • Portuguese Language (30 credits)
Optional Modules

Select two modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of optional Spanish modules, which may typically include:

  • Catalan Language (15 credits)
  • The Study of Gender in Spanish American Literature and Culture (15 credits)
  • Memory in Modern Spanish Culture (15 credits)
  • Language Acts and Worldmaking in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (15 credits)

In addition, choose a further two optional Portuguese modules (totalling 30 credits) from a list which may typically include:

  • Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
  • Nineteenth-Century Fiction in Brazil and Portugal (15 credits)
  • Visuality, Literature and Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
  • Modernism: Outside In (15 credits)


Year 3

Year 3

Your third year will be spent abroad, normally for one semester in a Spanish-speaking and one in a Portuguese-speaking country. If you choose to study, then we have an extensive list of partner institutions which you may attend, which currently include:

Spanish institutions:

  • Alicante
  • Cadiz
  • Carlos III (Madrid)
  • Córdoba
  • País Vasco
  • Pompeu Fabra
  • PUC (Chile)
  • Tec (Querétaro, Mexico)
  • Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus)
  • UNAM (Mexico)
  • Pacifico (Peru)
  • Salamanca
  • San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

Portuguese institutions:

  • Lisboa
  • Nova de Lisboa
  • Coimbra
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Universidade Federal da Bahia
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Alternatively, you may choose to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme, or to undertake an internship or work placement in a Spanish or Portuguese-speaking environment, allowing you to explore career prospects and fields of personal interest. You will arrange this yourself.

Required Modules There are no required modules in year three. Optional Modules There are no optional modules in year three.


Year 4

Year 4 Required Modules

  • Core Spanish Language IV (30 credits)
  • Core Portuguese Language IV (30 credits)
Optional Modules

Select up to two (totalling 30 credits) from a range of optional Spanish modules, which may typically include:

  • Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
  • Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
  • Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings on Colonial Latin America (15 credits)
  • Stereotypes in Modern Spanish Cinema (15 credits)
  • Catalan Culture (15 credits)
  • The Writer and the Public: Journalism in Spain (15 credits)

In addition, choose up to two more (totalling 30 credits) from a range of optional Portuguese modules, which may typically include:

  • Brazilian Poetry and Song: 1958 to the present (15 credits)
  • Lusophone African Literature II: The Postcolonial Experience (15 credits)
  • Peripheral Europeans: Modernity, Traditionalism and National Identity (15 credits)
  • Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas, 16th-20th Centuries (15 credits)
  • Comparing Romance Languages (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore modules may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

Spanish & Portuguese with a year abroad

£ 9,250 + VAT