Spanish Studies and Linguistics : BA Hons : QR14

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This four-year combined degree is provided by our renowned Department of Languages and Cultures and the highly-ranked Department of Linguistics and English Language. A year abroad gives you a unique opportunity to be immersed in the language and culture. You don’t need to have studied Spanish before as we offer an intensive course for beginners.

In Spanish Studies we aim to help you become truly fluent. Taking Linguistics in tandem with Spanish Studies will give you increased awareness of the grammar of the language, and allow you to really understand the structure of both English, Spanish, and a wide range of other languages from around the world. We also offer courses on contemporary Spanish history and Spanish and Mexican culture. In your second year you’ll study modules such as The Structures of the World’s Languages and Spanish Language Oral Skills.

Your third year living abroad in Spain, Mexico, or South America will deepen your intercultural sensitivity and your command of the language. You can study at a partner institution, or carry out a work placement and practice your language skills in a real-world context. Staff members within the department will work with you to secure accommodation, ensuring that you are fully equipped before embarking on your year abroad.

On your return to Lancaster in the fourth year, you’ll specialise further. Choices include Cognitive Linguistics and Game of (Spanish) Thrones: Treachery, War and Exile in Spanish Poetry. You could also choose to complete a dissertation on a topic. Given the range of expertise within our department, our academics will be able to supervise most topics that fit your interests.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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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.

Recent Linguistics graduates have also gone on to work or train as speech therapists, teachers of English, computer programmers and consultants, bankers, personnel managers, and social workers.

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 and Linguistics joint 5th 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, Applied Linguistics, and Discourse Studies amongst others.

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 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
  • English Language
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Grammar
  • Linguistics
  • Spanish Studies
  • Oral Skills
  • Written Skills
  • Corporate Communication
  • World Literatures

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

    • Linguistics
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)

Optional

    • English Language
    • Part I Chinese (Intensive)
Year 2

Core

    • 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
    • Sounds of the World's Languages
    • 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)
    • Structures of the World's Languages

Optional

    • Corporate communication
    • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
    • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
    • English Grammar
    • English Phonetics
    • Independent Study
    • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
    • Language and Pedagogic Practice
    • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
    • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
    • Stylistics
    • The Language of Advertising
    • Understanding culture
    • Understanding Media
Year 3

Core

    • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • Spanish Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory

Optional

    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
    • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Dissertation
    • Forensic Linguistics
    • Full Unit Dissertation
    • Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
    • Language and Identities: Gender, ethnicity and class
    • Language Change in English and Beyond
    • Language in the Workplace: Topics in Professional Communication
    • Latin America and Spain on Film: Violence and Masculinities
    • Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Schools Volunteering Module
    • 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.

Additional information

Overseas fee - £15,680

Spanish Studies and Linguistics : BA Hons : QR14

£ 9,250 VAT inc.