MA English and Spanish & Latin American Studies
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in English and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Language & Translation. Students spend half of year two developing language skills as a teaching assistant or visiting student in a Spanish-speaking country, and complete an independent dissertation in their final year.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Spanish Language 2
- Spanish Language 3
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- Spain and Spanish America: History, Culture, Politics
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- Spanish Language 4
- Latin America: Texts and Contexts
- Spanish Language 6 (SP30A3)
- Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
- Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
- Romanticism (EL30XR)
- Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
- Spanish Language 7 (SP40A5)
- Dissertation in Spanish
- English Dissertation