BA Czech and Spanish
Entry requirements
A level: ABB (Spanish required.) IB: 34 points (A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, to include Spanish, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BA in Czech and Spanish, a Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and Russian Studies degree centred on the study of two major European languages and cultures. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory year abroad spent studying or working in relevant countries. The first year covers foundational language acquisition through Czech Language Level 1, Spanish Language I, Literature and Memory, and War, Trauma and Memory in East European Cinema. The second year progresses to advanced comprehension and production through Czech Language Level 2a-Comprehension, Czech Language Level 2b-Production, Introduction to Czech Literature and Culture, and Spanish Language II, alongside optional topics such as History of Spain in the Twentieth Century and 20th Century Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Aesthetics. The third year consists of a year abroad. The final year consolidates proficiency through Czech Language Level 3a - Comprehension, Czech Language Level 3b - Production, Czech and Slovak Literature 3, and Spanish Language III, with further choices including a Free-standing Dissertation and optional modules such as Crime Fictions in Latin America and Golden Age Drama: Plays, Players and Playing in Early Modern Spain.
Modules
- Czech Language Level 1
- War, Trauma and Memory in East European Cinema
- Literature and Memory
- Spanish Language I
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 1
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 2
- Czech Language Level 2a-Comprehension
- Czech Language Level 2b-Production
- Introduction to Czech Literature and Culture
- Writing from the Other Europe
- Spanish Language II
- What Women Want: Galdos and Pardo Bazan
- Womens Writing in Latin America II
- Spanish Narrative, Essay and Drama
- 20th Century Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Aesthetics
- History of Colonial Latin America
- History of Spain in the Twentieth Century
- Cervantes and his World: Fiction, Empire and Subject
- Memoria, verdad y justicia in Argentine and Chilean Culture
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 1
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 2
- Year Abroad Term 1
- Year Abroad Term 2
- Czech Language Level 3a - Comprehension
- Czech Language Level 3b - Production
- Czech and Slovak Literature 3
- Spanish Language III
- Free-standing Dissertation
- Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II)
- Spanish and Latin American Studies: Cultural Dilemmas II
- The Battle for Memory in the Contemporary Spanish Novel: Part 1, The Transition to Democracy
- The Battle for Memory in the Contemporary Spanish Novel: Part 2, Democracy Consolidated
- Golden Age Drama: Plays, Players and Playing in Early Modern Spain
- Contemporary Catholicisms in Latin American Culture: Experimentation, Perversion, Revolution
- Crime Fictions in Latin America
- Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas: The Native Peoples of the Americas prior to the Spanish Conquest
- Film Adaptation in the Americas