BA English and Spanish
Entry requirements
A level: Post A-level Spanish ABB including A-level English and Spanish. Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level Spanish then AS-level Spanish grade B would be acceptable in lieu of A-level Spanish. For applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6(Spanish),6 (English),5 at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Language & Translation. Students study the literatures and languages of both traditions in a wide variety of historical, linguistic, cultural, and ideological circumstances.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Spanish 1
- Spanish for Beginners
- Introduction to Iberian Studies
- Spanish 2
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- World as Stage
- Re-imagining Spain in the nineteenth century
- The Fantastic in Latin America
- Protecting Paradise
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- America's Aftermaths
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Working and Studying Abroad
- International Placement: Languages Year Abroad
- Spanish 3
- The Spanish Enlightenment
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Language in the Media
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
- Well-versed in Spanish
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now