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MA English and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years)

University of Aberdeen

Institution
University of Aberdeen
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years)
Duration
5 years
UCAS code
QR34
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 32

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, Language & Translation. The five-year degree programme includes a compulsory period abroad during the third year, undertaken as a teaching assistant or visiting student in a Spanish-speaking country.

Modules

  • Academic Writing for Language & Literature
  • Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
  • Acts of Reading
  • Spanish Language 1
  • 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
  • The Tragedy of Knowledge
  • Power, Empire and Equality
  • Spanish Language 3
  • Spanish Language 4
  • Spanish Language 5
  • The Global City in Text and Film
  • Latin America: Texts and Contexts
  • Residence Abroad Project (SP30AB)
  • Spanish Language 6 (SP30A3)
  • Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
  • Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
  • Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
  • American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
  • Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
  • Romanticism (EL30XR)
  • Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
  • Spanish Language 7 (SP40A5)
  • Dissertation in Spanish
  • English Dissertation