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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Stirling Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
4 Year
Over 400 million people around the world speak Spanish – which is why learning the language for yourself makes you a powerful asset to employers in an age of global opportunities. This course offers Spanish for all – from complete beginners to advanced speakers – and equips you to read, write and speak the language on an advanced level appropriate for the demands of today’s job market. You will also have the chance to acquire a critical awareness of the societies and cultures of Spain and Latin America, as well as transferrable skills that can be applied in a number of professional and academic settings. In order to truly immerse yourself in Spanish and Latin American cultures, and in most degree combinations, you will spend an extended period studying abroad in Spain, Mexico, Chile or Argentina. This opportunity to refine your language skills will be enhanced by the research-led teaching you will enjoy in Stirling. There is also normally the opportunity to work abroad with the British Council to enhance your CV, and at the same time you keep learning and experiencing the language and the culture.
This module introduces students to basic aspects of the Spanish language in the context of the Spanish-speaking world. The course also develops students? communicative and listening skills in Spanish. Learning Spanish can change your life as it will give you the opportunity to work and travel abroad (Spanish is an official language in more than twenty countries worldwide -all around the four continents. It will be easier for you to meet people (either informally or formally) as it is used by approx. 500 million people in the world. Finally, Spanish is also the third most used language on the internet.
This is the second module of our Introduction to Spanish and therefore students will continue their learning of the Spanish language, its grammar and its use. Learning Spanish is very important in the XXIst century as -just to highlight one reason- it is becoming, together with English, as one of the languages for international communication and business. That means that if you speak/understand Spanish, together with your native English, you will be able to travel/work almost everywhere.
This is the first semester of the advanced course in the Spanish language. Students are introduced to language (grammar & conversation) at University level. Students are also introduced to the skills needed for the study of Spanish and Latin American culture.
This module is a direct follow-up to the Spring semester SPAU9A1. It develops further student's core written and spoken language skills. This module consist of 3 parts: written language, spoken language and cultural studies. This last part will continue the exploration of Latin American history initiated in A1 by exploring texts from a wide range of media (films, song lyrics, photographs, literature) that represent reality and the past in a non-realist way.
This module consolidates students' knowledge and understanding of modern Spanish and Latin American history, culture and society through literature and cinema, while also developing their proficiency of complex Spanish texts and grammatical structures. The course is intended to provide the basis for further study of Spanish and Latin American culture in advanced Honours option modules.
This module develops students' knowledge and understanding of key themes of contemporary Spain through the study of texts understood in a broad sense (literature, film, photographs, other visual expressions and/or cultural artifacts), while also developing their proficiency of Spanish texts and grammatical structures. The course is intended to provide the basis for further study of Spanish and Latin American culture in advanced Honours option modules.
This module develops students' knowledge and understanding of key themes of contemporary Spain through the study of texts understood in a broad sense (literature, film, photographs, other visual expressions and/or cultural artifacts), while also developing their proficiency of Spanish texts and grammatical structures. The course is intended to provide the basis for further study of Spanish and Latin American culture in advanced Honours option modules.
The objective of the module is to increase the understanding of the Spanish language and Spanish and Latin American culture. Authentic texts of different genres introduce you to important topics and features of contemporary Spanish and Latin American society, politics and culture. The study of these themes is embedded in the learning of grammatical and discourse elements used for the creation of coherent, formal texts. Introductory materials to life in Spain help you to familiarise yourselves with the country where you will study. Oral classes also enable you to gain more confidence in speaking and to express yourselves formally.
This module provides generic, subject-specific and language-specific (French or Spanish) education on employability and careers skills of relevance to students whose degree involves the study of French or Spanish
During this module you will undertake a compulsory semester spent abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, usually at a partner institution. The general purpose of the period of residence and study abroad is to enable you to develop fluency and familiarity with the language, and some understanding of Spanish or Hispanic life and culture, by means of daily contact with native speakers in a Hispanic environment and by following a course of study in a University. Stirling has a range of partnerships with prestigious universities in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.
The general aims of the dissertation are to provide students, towards the end of their period of undergraduate study, with an opportunity to show that they have learned how to pursue independent study of an appropriate academic topic. The treatment of the subject must show the ability to find and present evidence, to sustain a reasoned argument and to draw logical and pertinent conclusions. Its main emphases are its academic content, the students? awareness of issues related to their Spanish or Latin American studies, and the techniques of study applied.
This module is designed to prepare students for the dissertation in semester 8. It will focus on the key skills required to devise and develop a research project: using library, archive and IT resources effectively to support research; distinguishing appropriate methodological approaches to research; formulating a research question; writing a proposal; referencing accurately and professionally; and presenting research findings to an audience. It supports students through the process of defining and scoping the dissertation topic which they will research in semester 8.
The module is for students who already have an advanced level of Spanish. Practical language work in Spanish is continued at a progressively more advanced level. You will be expected to reach a high degree of accuracy and fluency in written language work, and to demonstrate comprehension of a variety of registers of written Spanish. There is also an emphasis on writing skills for employability and on translation from Spanish to English. In advanced oral classes you will be expected to demonstrate a fluent command of spoken Spanish idiom in a variety of situations, to present opinions and arguments, and to defend them in discussion.
The course centres on Spanish as a world language. It studies different forms of Spanish which are spoken in Spain and the Latin American countries, studying their historical development and contemporary aspects. The topics may include languages in contact with particular emphasis on Spanish; the historical dialect of Jewish-Spanish; the language attitudes towards and characteristics of the language in Latin America and the United Sates. Students revisit linguistic aspects of the language they learned during their studies and contextualise these in a broader framework of the consciousness about Spanish in the world and language use in general. Oral classes enable students to perfect their proficiency in speaking and to communicate formally.
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