BA (Hons) Spanish and International Communication with Foundation Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Critical thinking is fundamental to our ability to progress in an increasingly complex and changing world. It is an essential skill across a range of academic and practice-based disciplines. This module helps you understand the importance and function of critical thinking both at university and beyond. By working in partnership with academic staff and peers, you will explore how critical thinking aligns with disciplinary practices, shapes scholarly knowledge, and addresses inequalities. Through

This module introduces contemporary political questions in the global context. Current political issues such as statelessness, politics of underdevelopment, power and inequality, and climate change will be discussed and analysed. The idea of nations and nationhood features prominently in the module, as do the issues related to faith, religion and ideological belief. The module is designed to introduce concepts and themes such as democracy, power and politics, inequality, global society, human ri

This module provides a foundation in the theory and practice of intercultural communication, to help you better understand the complexities of communicating with people from other cultures. You'll explore what is meant by culture and the relationship between cultures and identities and examine how culture influences you and others. You will reflect on how the language and non-verbal communication you use can impact understandings and what strategies you can develop to manage misunderstandings bo

This module introduces you to the key academic, professional, and personal skills essential for success at university. It encourages good practices in writing, presentation, and time management, while also fostering reflection to help you build confidence as you transition to higher education. Open to all students enrolled in courses delivered through Westminster Foundation Pathways, the module provides a creative and supportive environment where you can reflect on and develop your academic and

This module explores some of the issues and intersections of identity through written and spoken expressions. It will include aspects such as language and gender, writing auto/biography, forms of writing, cultural identity and linguistic identity, and reading and writing about 'others' in fiction and non-fiction.

The module provides you with an introduction to the relevant theories of interpersonal and intercultural communication. By exploring these theories and linking them to practical everyday situations, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how these apply to your own communicative contexts. Focus will be placed on gaining practical strategies for enhancing your own competences as a communicator.

The module introduces the core theoretical knowledge, methodologies and fundamental skills required for the study of language and culture. This includes developing a sound understanding of key terms and concepts in addition to the skills needed to produce clear and competent written English in a range of registers and styles appropriate for undergraduate academic study. The module lectures emphasise the interconnectedness of the study of language and culture and introduce you to a variety of met

Beginners, false beginners and intermediate students of Spanish will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with a limited to fair degree of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Spanish-speaking countries and the learning environment. Language and culture are taught in an integrated way through task-based and enquiry-based approaches to learning. Students will achieve levels upper A2 (beginners or false beginners) or lower B2 (int

This module examines English around the world as an international, intra-national, native, second, and foreign language. It considers the distinctive features of these varieties and the social and cultural implications of English as a global language. British varieties of English may be referred to as examples in the introductory part of the module but are not the main content or part of the assessment.

This module develops the practical and conceptual foundations of the translation process. In addition to language-specific translation seminars that focus on real-world texts of a gradually more complex but mostly factual and explicit nature, in the translation workshops, you'll be introduced to a range of translation-specific skills, including IT skills as well as basic theoretical concepts as a means of identifying, understanding and resolving translation issues in a practical manner.

This module introduces the study of contemporary and ancient material culture and examines its meaning in social, political and historical perspectives. You'll acquire skills of object analysis and visit London galleries and museums to apply them. You'll examine the social and cultural lives of objects, and how their meaning changes depending on their context and use, by assessing their production, the impact of trade, war and migration on their circulation, and their provenance and politics of

The module examines the relationship between representation and the production of meaning through the analysis of a wide range of contemporary socio-cultural topics, including gender, ethnicity and language, through different media. In this module students are encouraged to challenge and develop an understanding of the critical links between representation, meaning and identity in a global frame. The analysis focuses primarily on the representation of cultural difference and 'othering' in the pu

As a post-beginner or post-intermediate Spanish student, you will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities that enable you to function with an intermediate to good level of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Spanish-speaking environments. Language and culture are taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches, with a special emphasis on promoting intercultural understanding.