Spanish Studies : BA Hons : R410

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures Iberian Languages at Lancaster is ranked 5th in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2017. Our distinctive approach gives you the opportunity to acquire both high-level language skills and a thorough understanding of Spanish cultures and societies within a global context.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the Spanish language and its cultural context. Alongside this, you will study two minor subjects of your choice, one of which may be another language.

Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will also study Spain’s culture, politics and history in more depth, as well as selecting courses which are international in scope and promote a comparative understanding of Europe and beyond.

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 courses, such as ‘Game of (Spanish) Thrones: Treachery, War and Exile in Spanish Poetry (13th-20th c.)’, and ‘Writing in the Margins: Narrating Cross-Cultural Experience’. You will also develop a particular topic from your second year studies into your specialist dissertation.

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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. Our graduates have found work in a wide variety of areas 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 beyond.

For the last ten years, languages graduates from Lancaster have been in the top ten universities in the country in terms of their employability, with Iberian Languages ranking 1st for graduate prospects in the Complete University Guide 2017.

Many graduates continue their studies at Lancaster, making the most of our excellent postgraduate research facilities. We offer Masters degrees in Translation and Languages and Cultures, which can lead on to a variety of careers including translation, and teaching.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

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 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
  • Cross Cultural
  • Writing
  • Spanish Studies
  • Spanish America
  • Spanish Empire
  • Academic skills
  • Oral Skills
  • Written Skills
  • World Literatures
  • Social Change in France
  • Germany
  • Germany and Spain

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

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

    • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
    • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
    • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
    • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
    • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
    • Understanding culture
Year 3

Core

    • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

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

Optional

    • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
    • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
    • 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
    • Translation as a Cultural Practice
    • 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.

Additional information

Overseas Fee - £15,680

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Spanish Studies : BA Hons : R410

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