Spanish Studies and Film : BA Hons : R4P3

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s joint Spanish Studies and Film degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA). Spanish Studies is ranked 5th in the Complete University Guide 2017.

Your Spanish Studies programme enables you to acquire high-level language skills while gaining a thorough understanding of the country’s historical, cultural, social and political background in a global context. In Film, you’ll examine cinema’s aesthetic, social and political importance in the context of an increasingly visual and media-orientated culture, while also investigating the intersections between contemporary art, theatre, design, sound and film.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the Spanish language and its cultural context as well as an introduction to Film Studies and the core module, ‘Modernism in the Arts’. Alongside this, you will study a minor subject of your choice.

Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will study the culture, politics and history of the Spanish-speaking world in more depth, as well as selecting modules which are international in scope and promote a comparative understanding of Europe and beyond. You will combine these with the modules ‘Critical Reflections’ and ‘Hollywood and Beyond: Global Cinema’.

Spending your third year abroad in a Spanish-speaking country makes a major contribution to your command of the language, while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. You can study at a partner institution or conduct a work placement.

In your final year, you consolidate your Spanish language skills, and study specialist culture and comparative modules, such as ‘Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film’. You will also choose film modules such as ‘Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema’, ‘Silent Cinema’ or ‘Media and Performance’.

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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

As well as language and subject-related skills, a degree in languages develops rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills that can be utilised across a variety of careers such as accountancy, IT, business development, civil service, events management, finance, journalism, publishing, research and sales, as well as teaching and translating both in the UK and abroad. Film graduates may go on to roles in TV or independent film production and jobs in advertising, marketing and media production, arts administration and management.

For the last ten years, languages graduates from Lancaster have been in the top ten universities in the country in terms of their employment prospects. The Complete University Guide 2017 ranked Spanish Studies 1st in the UK for graduate prospects.

Many graduates continue their studies at Lancaster, making the most of our excellent postgraduate research facilities. We offer Masters degrees in Translation, Languages and Cultures, as well as MA and PhD research degrees in Film Studies or Arts Management.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects A level Spanish, or if this is to be studied from beginners’ level, AS grade B or A level grade B in another foreign language, or GCSE grade A in a foreign language. Native Spanish speakers will not be accepted onto this scheme.

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Spanish Language
  • Film Studies
  • Sound
  • Cinema
  • Hollywood
  • Media
  • Spanish Studies
  • Global Cinema
  • Oral Skills
  • Written Skills

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Introduction to Film Studies
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
Year 2

Core

    • Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
    • Power and Resistance in Spain and Spanish America: From the Spanish Empire to the 21st Century
    • Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (post Beginners/CEFR: B1)
    • Spanish Language: Written skills (CEFR: B2)
    • Spanish Language: Written Skills (post Beginners/CEFR: B1)

Optional

    • Critical Reflections
    • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
    • Documentary Cultures
    • Documentary Film Practice
    • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
    • European New Wave Cinema
    • Film and Comic Books
    • Introduction to Sound
    • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
    • LICA Work Placement
    • Media & Performance
    • Perception and the Arts
    • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
    • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
    • Understanding culture
    • Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
Year 3

Core

    • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • Spanish Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)

Optional

    • Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
    • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
    • Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
    • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
    • Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
    • Creative Enterprise
    • Dissertation
    • Film Theory
    • Full Unit Dissertation
    • Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
    • Latin America and Spain on Film: Violence and Masculinities
    • Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
    • Silent Cinema
    • Social movements and committed writing in Mexico since 1968
    • Translation as a Cultural Practice

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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Overseas Fee - £15,680

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Spanish Studies and Film : BA Hons : R4P3

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