BA Archaeology and Hispanic Studies

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BA Archaeology and Hispanic Studies

  • Objectives Studying a modern language alongside archaeology provides you with opportunities to gain a greater insight into the historical and cultural development of your chosen country, and to develop specific and highly valuable language skills.
  • Practical experience Your knowledge and skills are enhanced by spending the third year of your four-year degree in an Hispanic country
  • Entry requirements -GCE/VCE A Levels - BBC -BTEC National Diploma - 3 Distinctions and 3 Merits -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BC+BB -Scottish Highers - AABB -Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB -International Baccalaureate - 32 points -Core Requirements - Normally requires B in A Level Spanish or, for beginners, in another modern language.
  • Academic title Archaeology and Hispanic Studies BA
  • Course description This is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.


    Typical First Year Modules
    Module/Unit

    -European Classical Civilisations    
    -World Civilisations    
    -Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture I    
    -Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture II    
    -Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture I    
    -Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture II    


    Typical Second Year Modules
    Module/Unit    

    -Research Skills in Archaeology    
    -Thinking through Archaeology    
    -Advanced Spanish Language I    
    -Advanced Spanish Language II    
    -Archaeology and Text
    -Archaology of the Graeco-Roman World
    -Early Historic Europe
    -Early Prehistoric Europe    
    -From Households to Empires
    -Later Historic Europe    
    -Later Prehistoric Europe    
    -Reconstructing Ancient Landscapes    
    -Contemporary Latin America (Cuba)    
    -Contemporary Latin America (Mexico)    
    -Cuban Culture and the Revolution    
    -Further Portuguese: Language and Culture I    
    -Further Portuguese: Language and Culture II    
    -Hispanic Film and Human Rights    
    -Intensive Catalan I    
    -Intensive Catalan II    
    -Intensive Portuguese I    
    -Intensive Portuguese II    
    -Linguistic Developments in Modern Spain    
    -Narrative Perspectives on Post-Civil War Spain
    -Spanish American 20th-Century Literature I    
    -Spanish Language in Business Contexts    
    -The Novels of Benito Perez Galdos    


    Typical Third Year Modules
    Module/Unit    

    -Hispanic Studies Year Abroad    
    -Hispanic Studies Year Abroad    
    -Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
    -Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)    


    Typical Fourth Year Modules
    Module/Unit    

    -Dissertation (Archaeology and Hispanic Studies)    
    -Advanced Spanish Language III    
    -Advanced Spanish Language IV
    -Archaeology and Texts in the Age of Homer    
    -Athens, Empire and the Classical Greek World    
    -Dark Age Britain    
    -Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England    
    -Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England    
    -Dissertation    
    -Ethnohistory and Anthropology of Modern Hunter Gatherers    
    -Funerary Archaeology
    -Material Life and Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern World    
    -Mediterranean Landscapes    
    -Optical and Geophysical Surveying in Archaeology    
    -Rome: Capital, Hinterland and Periphery    
    -Social Transformations in Britain From the 4th to 2nd Millennium BC    
    -Spanish Language Teaching    
    -Swords and Sorcery: Northern Europe 1000 BC-AD 500    
    -Work Place Learning    
    -Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture I    
    -Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture II    
    -Contemporary Argentina    
    -Dissidence and Debate in Early 20th-Century Spain    
    -Genesis and Genre: From Novel to Play to Screen: Galdos Today    
    -Interpreting Skills    
    -Law and Culture in the Hispanic World    
    -Media Ethics in the Hispanic World    
    -Modern Peru
    -Modern Uruguayan Narrative    
    -Musical Performance and Hispanic Culture    
    -Popular Culture and Society in Latin America    
    -Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture I    
    -Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture II    
    -Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture III    
    -Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture IV    
    -Spain Since 1975    
    -The Politics and Fiction of Crisis: 1868 - 1898    
    -Translation Studies    
    -Visual Culture in Spain and Latin America    
    -Writing in Exile
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