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English and Hispanic Studies BA

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Are you passionate about language, literature and culture and eager to develop your skills in a language that will take you all over the world? If so, you will love the opportunity to immerse yourself in English language and literature together with Hispanic Studies on this joint honours course.

Your time will be divided equally between these two complementary subjects, in which you'll discover parallels and points of comparison throughout the course. In English, you'll take modules covering drama and performance, English language and applied linguistics, literature (from 1500 to the present) and medieval language and literature. We are proud to be ranked top 20 for English in the UK (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 and Complete University Guide 2024).

On the Hispanic Studies side, the course combines core language studies and opportunities to explore the cultures and histories of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. If you're a beginner in Spanish, an intensive beginners' course will develop your language skills rapidly, ensuring that you reach degree level by your final year. If you begin the course with A level Spanish (or equivalent), you'll study Portuguese as an additional language in year one, with opportunities to continue throughout your studies in order to reach degree level. Alongside your language modules, you'll gain expertise in Spanish and Portuguese literature and culture and the multinational histories associated with both languages.

Indicative modules

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Year 1

Spanish 1

Optional

Year 1

Spanish 1: Beginners

Optional

Year 1

Portuguese 1: Beginners

Optional

Year 1

Literature in Spanish

Optional

Year 1

Drama, Theatre, Performance

Optional

Year 1

Studying Literature

Optional

Year 1

Studying Language

Optional

Year 1

Beginnings of English

Optional

Year 2

Spanish 2

Optional

Year 2

Spanish 2: Beginners

Optional

Year 2

Portuguese 2: Beginners

Optional

Year 2

Nation Building and National Identities in the Lusophone World

Optional

Year 2

Luso-Hispanic Cinemas

Optional

Year 2

New World(s): Contacts, Conquests and Conflict in Early Modern Hispanic History and Culture

Optional

Year 2

Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature

Optional

Year 2

From Talking Horses to Romantic Revolutionaries: Literature 1700-1830

Optional

Year 2

Literature and Popular Culture

Optional

Year 2

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Optional

Year 2

Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Page

Optional

Year 2

Victorian and Fin de Siècle Literature: 1830-1910

Optional

Year 2

Language in Society

Optional

Year 2

Language Development

Optional

Year 2

Literary Linguistics

Optional

Year 2

The Psychology of Bilingualism and Language Learning

Optional

Year 2

Chaucer and his Contemporaries

Optional

Year 2

Ice and Fire: Myths and Heroes of the North

Optional

Year 2

Old English: Reflection and Lament

Optional

Year 2

Names and Identities

Optional

Year 2

From Stanislavski to Contemporary Performance

Optional

Year 2

Twentieth-Century Plays

Mandatory

Year 3

Year abroad

Mandatory

Year 4

Spanish 3

Optional

Year 4

Portuguese 3

Optional

Year 4

Business and Society in Spain

Optional

Year 4

Making the Cuban Revolution: Ideology, Culture and Identity in Cuba since 1959

Optional

Year 4

Brazilian Slave Society

Optional

Year 4

Literature and Film under Franco

Optional

Year 4

Translation, Power and Gender in the Spanish-speaking World

Optional

Year 4

Spanish American Narrative and Film

Optional

Year 4

Politics and Literature in Contemporary Spain

Optional

Year 4

Memory and the Future in Iberian and Latin American Culture and Politics

Optional

Year 4

Dissertation in Hispanic Studies

Optional

Year 4

Communicating and Teaching Languages for Undergraduate Ambassadors

Optional

Year 4

Songs and Sonnets: Lyric poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne

Optional

Year 4

Contemporary British Fiction

Optional

Year 4

Single-Author Study

Optional

Year 4

The Gothic Tradition

Optional

Year 4

The Self and the World: Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

Optional

Year 4

Making Something Happen: Poetry and Politics

Optional

Year 4

Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688

Optional

Year 4

Modern Irish Literature and Drama

Optional

Year 4

One and Unequal: World Literatures in English

Optional

Year 4

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Optional

Year 4

Advanced Stylistics

Optional

Year 4

Language and Feminism

Optional

Year 4

Language and the Mind

Optional

Year 4

English Place-Names

Optional

Year 4

Dreaming the Middle Ages: Visionary Poetry in Scotland and England

Optional

Year 4

The Viking Mind

Optional

Year 4

Theatre Making

Optional

Year 4

Changing Stages: Theatre Industry and Theatre Art

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Wednesday 8 January 2025. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

I’ve found studying two subjects so rewarding. You get to study things from different perspectives which you probably wouldn't be able to do as much as a single honours student. If you want to study more than one subject, you aren't being indecisive and you won't regret it! 

Ellie Abbey

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