Spanish & Portuguese with a year abroad

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

You are required to take the following modules:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits)
• Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)
• Global Iberias (30 credits)

You are also required to take two optional modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of optional 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 & Early Modern Iberian Worlds (15 credits)
• Music of the Lusophone & Hispanic Worlds (15 credits)

You are required to take the following modules:

• Core Spanish Language (30 credits)
• Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)

You are required to take 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)

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.

You are required to take the following modules:

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

You are also required to take up to two modules (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)

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.