BA Spanish and Portuguese
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB A level grade B is required for any advanced language you wish to study. See below for full information.. IB: 6,5,5 including 32 points total. See below for full information.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM, plus a B at A level in the required subject/s. See below for full information.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Portuguese BA, a Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies degree focused on language proficiency and cultural analysis. Core topics include Global & Comparative Perspective. The course includes a study abroad or work placement period in the third year. The first year establishes language foundations through Spanish Language 1 (Advanced) and Portuguese Language 1 (Beginners): Boas-vindas!, alongside cultural study in modules such as Latin American Histories and Cultures A and Introduction to European Film A. The second year builds proficiency through Spanish Language 2 (Advanced) and Portuguese Language 2 (Intermediate): Vamos lá!, while exploring specialist topics through Cultural Industries: Creativity in Change and Global Enterprise Project. The final year involves advanced study via Spanish Language Final Year and Portuguese Language Final Year: Avante!, complemented by optional modules covering literary, historical and digital subjects as well as a Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages.
Modules
- Discover: Personal, Academic and Professional Development in Modern Languages
- Spanish Language 1 (Advanced)
- Spanish Language 1 (Beginners)
- Environment, Sustainability and Development in the Portuguese-speaking world
- Portuguese Language 1 (Beginners): Boas-vindas!
- Introduction to European Film A
- Introduction to European Film B
- Introduction to Linguistics A: Science of Language
- Introduction to Linguistics B: language change and variation
- Landmarks in European Literature A
- Landmarks in European Literature B
- Translation in Practice I
- Translation in Practice II
- Latin American Histories and Cultures A
- Latin American Histories and Cultures B
- Hispanic Visual Cultures A
- Hispanic Visual Cultures B
- Beginners Catalan Language A
- Beginners Catalan Language B
- Catalan Culture Project A
- Catalan Culture Project B
- Spanish Language 2 (Advanced)
- Spanish Language 2 (Intermediate)
- Cultural Industries: Creativity in Change
- Portuguese Language 2 (Intermediate): Vamos lá!
- 19th Century Russia through the Lens of the Novel
- Cross-Cultural Cinema: Film Adaptation beyond the Nation-State
- Cross-Cultural Cinema: Migration and Displacement
- Global Enterprise Project
- Language and power
- Teaching and Learning (languages) in the 21st century
- Work, The Future and You
- Translation in the Workplace
- Digital Media and Spanish Youth Culture
- Histories of the Excluded: Inquisition and the Birth of Human Rights
- Icons of the Hispanic World
- Mexican and Chicano Art in the Twentieth Century: Revolution and Beyond
- Reading the World in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction
- Structures and Varieties of the Modern Hispanic Languages
- Beginners Catalan Language A
- Beginners Catalan Language B
- Intermediate Catalan Language A
- Intermediate Catalan Language B
- Artistic and Literary Representations of Barcelona
- Gender, New Media and Cultural Identity
- Exploring Italian cities: texts and contexts
- Final Year Extended Independent Study Module in Modern Languages
- Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1
- Portuguese Language Final Year: Avante!
- Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture
- Spanish Language Final Year
- Back to the Future – Hidden Histories and Utopian Possibilities, 1800-present
- Border Crossings: Word & Image in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Russophone Cultures
- Contemporary representations of the body: literature, theory and art
- Echoes of Colonialism and Imperialism Across Cultures
- From Text to Tech: Digital Approaches to Languages and Cultures
- Language, Culture and Communication: Digging into the text
- The Romance languages: structure, variation and change
- Translation and Creativity in the Digital Age I
- Translation and Creativity in the Digital Age II
- Uniformity and diversity in the Iberian-Romance speaking world
- Imagining the Truth: Latin American Culture in a Post-truth World
- Performing Gender/Translating Performance
- Social and Political Processes in Contemporary Latin America
- Spanish Exile Culture
- The Digital Past
- The Spanish Caribbean: History and Literature
- US Latinx Cultures: Spanish Caribbean
- Advanced Catalan Language A
- Advanced Catalan Language B
- Intermediate Catalan Language A
- Intermediate Catalan Language B