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The BA in Spanish is aimed at students who wish to develop an understanding of the Hispanic world through its language, culture, literature, and contact with its people. We educate students to broaden their language competence and their analytical thinking skills to be able to understand and feel comfortable contributing to a global and multicultural society or to pursue graduate studies.
We value and encourage our students to be active, reflective, autonomous learners, and to avail of the opportunity to spend a year in a Spanish-speaking country as an essential part of their learning experience. In the course of their studies we develop confident, flexible and creative students who can communicate in Spanish, use critical and analytical skills to build their understanding of literary, cultural and social issues relevant to the Hispanic world, are sensitive to an array of academic, moral and philosophical issues and are predisposed to life-long learning.
We aim to provide a learning environment that encourages students to use and develop their language competence and their cultural knowledge of the Hispanic world.
The programme aims are delivered through lectures, interactive language classes, tutorials and the use of the virtual learning environment. As a result of this approach, learning activities and assessment approaches include individual and group projects and assignments, oral presentations, debates, on-line discussions, and reflective learning.
The principal aim of this subject is to guide you in the critical study and appreciation of literature in Spanish. To do this effectively, you need to know the Spanish language, and so we train you to read, write and speak Spanish competently. Our additional aim is to broaden your acquaintance with the history and culture of Spain. The School accepts absolute beginners as well as students who already know some Spanish, and, of course, native speakers.
Beginners are given separate and intensive instruction to enable them to reach the same standard as other students by the start of Stage 2. All students are expected to spend some time in Spain or another Spanish-speaking country during your undergraduate career. Like other continental languages, Spanish is involved in the BA (International) programme, a four-year programme in which you spend one year (Stage 3) at a university in Spain or another Spanish-speaking country.
Spanish offers a small number of denominated entry places in this programme, thereby guaranteeing a SOCRATES scholarship. Other SOCRATES places may be competed for at the end of Stage 2. To do well in Spanish, you should be interested in the language, be keen to study the literature and to take a lively interest in the country's history and culture.
Students who wish to progress to Stage 2 must have passed SPAN10150 and another module in Spanish offered at Stage 1 (excluding PORT10090).
Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
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SPAN10140 | Intensive ab initio Spanish Ia | Autumn | 5 |
SPAN10150 | Intensive ab initio Spanish Ib | Spring | 5 |
PORT10090 | Film and Fiction (in the Portuguese-speaking world) | Spring | 5 |
SPAN10110 | Reading Hispanic Texts | Spring | 5 |