Spanish with Film Studies 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 Film Studies.

Spanish

You are required to take the following modules:

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

Film

You are required to take the following modules:

• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms (15 credits)
• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts (15 credits)

Spanish

You are also required to take two further modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of optional modules which may typically 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)
• Spain in the 20th century (15 credits)

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

Spanish

You are required to take the following module:

• Spanish Language II (30 credits)

Film Studies

There are no required Film Studies modules in Year 2.

Spanish

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

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

Film Studies

Choose two modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of options that may include:

• Asian Popular Cinemas (15 credits)
• Cinema & Spectatorship (15 credits)
• Chinese Cinemas (15 credits)
• Authorship and Creativity in the Cinema (15 credits)
• Film Forms (e.g. Documentary Film, Avant-garde Cinema) (15 credits)
• The French New Wave (15 credits)
• Italian Neo-Realism (15 credits)
• Contemporary European Cinema (15 credits)
• Topics in World Cinema (15 credits)
• Contemporary Spanish Cinema (15 credits)

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.

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 Film Studies.

Spanish

In your fourth year, the following module is required:

• Spanish Language IV (30 credits)

Film Studies

There are no required Film Studies modules in Year 2.

Spanish

You are also required to take 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 & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-modern Spain (15 credits)
• Brazilian Poetry & 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 & the Public: Journalism in Spain, Past and Present (15 credits)
• Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa & the Americas, 16th-20th Centuries (15 credits)
• Comparing Romance Languages: Historical Evolution & Linguistic Interference (15 credits)
• Catalan Culture (15 credits)
• Images of Spain: Stereotypes in Spanish Cinema (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your fourth year you are required to take two modules (totaling 30 credits) from a range of options that may typically include:

• Film & Transnationalism (15 credits)
• American Underground Cinema (15 credits)
• Cinema & Social Formations (15 credits)
• Film Genre: Hollywood Musical (15 credits)
• Documentary in the Twenty-First Century (15 credits)
• Film & New Media (15 credits)
• Film Noir (15 credits)
• Film & Religion (15 credits)
• Film & Architecture (15 credits)
• The Biopic: Historical Lives & Biographical Screen Practices (15 credits)
• New Waves in East Asian Cinema (15 credits)
• Film Style, Criticism & Interpretation (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.