Spanish with English with a year abroad

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

In your first year you will take 90 credits from Spanish and 30 credits from English.

Spanish

• Spanish Language I (30 credits)
• Global Iberias: Introduction to the Spanish and Portuguese-Speaking Worlds (30 credits)

English

There are no required English modules in Year One.

Spanish

You will chose a further two further modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of options that may include:

• Image: Visual Culture in the Global Iberias (15 credits)
• Introduction to Modern Hispanic Culture I (15 credits)
• From Frontier to Empire: Cultures in Contact in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Worlds (15 credits)
• Music of the Lusophone and Hispanic Worlds (15 credits)
• Spanish in the 20th Century (15 credits)

English

You will choose two modules (totalling 30 credits) of a range of options that may include:

• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)
• Writing London (15 credits)
• Language in Time (15 credits)
• Medieval Literary Culture (15 credits)
• Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credits)
• Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature (15 credits)

In your second year you will take 90 credits from Spanish and 30 credits from English.

Spanish

In your second year you are required to take the following module:

• Spanish Language II (30 credits)

English

There are no required English modules in Year Two.

Spanish

You will choose four modules (totalling 60 credits) from a range of options that may include:

• Catalan Language (15 credits)
• The Study of Gender in Spanish American Literature and Culture (15 credits)
• Memory in Modern Spanish Culture (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Visuality, Literature and Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
• Language Acts and Worldmaking in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Nationalism in Spain (15 credits)
• Spain in the World (15 credits)

English

You are required to take any two of the following optional modules that may typically include:

• A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean England (15 credits)
• Renaissance Wordplay (15 credits)
• Comedy and Identity (15 credits)
• Cultural Encounters: literature and language in the Anglo-Saxon period (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing (15 credits)
• The Film of The Play (15 credits)
• History, Politics & Elizabethan Imagination (15 credits)
• Language on the Edge (15 credits)
• London Literature 1380-1450 (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Old English Poems & Modern British Poetry (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Performance in Medieval Culture (Medieval) (15 credits)
• The Poetry of Revolution (15 credits)
• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Prose Fiction (15 credits)
• Literature and Psychoanalysis (15 credits)
• Modern Theatre (15 credits)
• Victorians and Social Change (15 credits)
• Nineteenth Century American Literature (15 credits)
• Moments of Culture (15 credits)
• US slavery and the literary imagination (15 credits)

3rd Year

Your third year will be spent abroad in a Spanish-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)

You may also choose to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme, or to undertake an internship or work placement in a Spanish-speaking environment, which you will normally arrange yourself, allowing you to explore career prospects and fields of personal interest.

There are no required modules in year three.

There are no optional modules in year three.

4th Year

In your fourth year, you will return to King’s to complete your studies. In this year, you will take 90 credits from Spanish and 30 credits from English.

Spanish

In your fourth year you are required to take the following module:

• Spanish Language IV (30 credits)

English

There are no required English modules in Year Four.

Spanish

You are also required to choose four modules (totalling 60 credits) from a wide range of options, which may typically include:

• Dissertation Option 1 (15 credits)
• Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
• Key Terms and Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-modern Spain (15 credits)
• Brazilian Poetry and Song: 1958 to the Present (15 credits)
• Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
• Myth and Archive (15 credits)
• Journey through Spain: Travel Writing in Modern Spain (15 credits)
• The Writer and the Public: Journalism in Spain, Past and Present (15 credits)
• Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas, 16th-20th Centuries (15 credits)
• Comparing Romance Languages: Historical Evolution and Linguistic Interference (15 credits)
• Catalan Culture (15 credits)
• Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings on Colonial Latin America (15 credits)
• Images of Spain: Stereotypes in Spanish Cinema (15 credits)

English

In your final year of English, there are no compulsory modules and you are reqiured to choose any two of the following wide range of modules, each worth 15 credits, which may typically include:

• Autobiography (15 credits)
• Beowulf (15 credits)
• Creative Writing: Poetry(15 credits)
• Critically Queer (15 credits)
• Late Shakespeare (15 credits)
• Victorians Abroad (15 credits)
• Modernist Short Story (15 credits)
• Austen in Context (15 credits)
• Shakespeare’s London (15 credits)
• Reading Paradise Lost (15 credits)
• Literature and Media (15 credits)
• Conspiracy Fictions in Contemporary America (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.