BA Spanish and Film Studies
About this course
BA in Spanish and Film Studies, a School of European Languages, Culture and Society degree focusing on Hispanic culture alongside cinematic history and analysis. Core topics include Research Methods. The curriculum includes a compulsory year abroad split across two terms. The first year covers foundational concepts through Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World, Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies, Film and Media History and Analysis, Spanish Language I, and Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 1 and 2. The second year progresses with Introduction to Film Genre, Mediatising Dissent, Directions in Contemporary Cinema, and Spanish Language II, alongside optional modules covering topics such as French Film History and The New German Cinema. The third year consists of SELCS Year Abroad Term 1 and SELCS Year Abroad Term 2. The final year concludes with Dissertation in Film and Media and Spanish Language III, supported by further options including Low Countries Cinema and Bombay Cinema: Industry and History.
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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.)
Modules
- Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
- Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies
- Film and Media History and Analysis
- Spanish Language I
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 1
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 2
- Introduction to Film Genre
- Mediatising Dissent
- Directions in Contemporary Cinema
- Spanish Language II
- French Film History
- The New German Cinema
- Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema
- 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
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 1
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 2
- Dissertation in Film and Media
- Spanish Language III
- Low Countries Cinema
- The Cinema of Resistance: Second World War
- Film and/as Philosophy
- Bombay Cinema: Industry and History
- East Asian Cinema
- French Film Adaptations
- Weimar and Nazi Film
- Words and Images: Italian Film Adaptations
- Experimental Film and Video: Between Gallery and Cinema
- Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II)
Questions about this course
What grades do I need for BA Spanish and Film Studies at University College London?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 34 points in the IB.