Spanish Studies and History : BA Hons : RV41

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 History degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with the Department of History. Spanish Studies is ranked 5th in the Complete University Guide 2017 and History 7th in the Guardian University Guide 2017.

Your Spanish Studies programme gives you the opportunity 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 History, you will develop your critical abilities studying modules in British, European and American world history.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the Spanish language and its cultural context as well as the core History module ‘From Medieval to Modern: History and Historians’. Alongside this, you can choose the History module ‘People, Places, and the Past’ or a minor subject from another department.

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 core module, ‘The Nature and Practice of History’, and select options such as, 'Mapping Terra Incognita: Travel and Exploration of the Americas and the Pacific, 1492-1642' and 'Spain 1560-1700: Inquisition, Armada and Empire'.

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 ‘Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century’.

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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

In a globalised world, foreign languages combined with knowledge of international history and contemporary cultures are highly valued by employers. During your degree you will develop the ability to think critically, analyse evidence and structure an argument, as well as gaining rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills. These skills will open up a variety of careers such as working in museums and heritage, 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.

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. Spanish Studies is ranked 1st in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2017 and History 10th in the UK by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 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, and History as well as PhD research degrees.

A Level AAB

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 or 7 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
  • Modern History
  • History and Historians
  • Spanish Studies
  • Modernisms and Modernities
  • Great War
  • Sources and Publics
  • History
  • 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

    • From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)

Optional

    • Brave New Worlds? Modernisms and Modernities
    • From Great War to Total War?
    • Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Britain, 1500-1800
    • The Fall of Rome
Year 2

Core

    • Making History: Contexts, Sources and Publics
    • 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

    • A History of Paris, c. 1730 to the Present
    • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
    • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
    • Gandhi and the End of Empire in India, 1885-1948
    • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
    • Mapping Terra Incognita: Travel and Exploration in The Atlantic and Pacific Worlds 1492-1642
    • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
    • Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century
    • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
    • Understanding culture
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

    • 'The Shock of the New': Modernity and the Modernisms of American Culture, 1877-1919
    • Anarchy and society in the Caribbean, c.1620-c.1720
    • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
    • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
    • 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
    • Social movements and committed writing in Mexico since 1968
    • The Third Reich and Film
    • Translation as a Cultural Practice
    • Vikings and Sea-Kings: Power and Plunder in the Irish Sea Region, 794-1079
    • Writing in the margins: narrating cross-cultural experience

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 History : BA Hons : RV41

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