MA (Hons) English and Spanish & Latin American Studies (4yrs) Bachelor's degree at the University of Aberdeen

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Prescribed for level 1 undergraduate students and articulating students who are in their first year at the University, studied entirely online, takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Topics include University orientation overview, equality & diversity, MySkills, health, safety and cyber security, and academic integrity.

Introduces students to the study of English by exploring the dynamic relationship between author, reader and text in a series of classic works of fiction and poetry. Covers a broad historical range (from Folk Tales and ballads to 21st century postmodernity) and offers a basic grounding in key elements of literary theory, literary history and the varieties of literary form.

Fast-paced language course for students with some previous knowledge of Spanish. Aimed at students intending to pursue an honours (single or joint) degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies but also suitable for students on other degree programmes. Involves intensive language study.

Follows Spanish Language 2 or can be taken by students who have the required level of Spanish.

Literature can provoke, offend and disturb as well as entertain. Considers some of the most powerful and controversial works of modern literature. Examines the circumstances of publication, the nature of the controversy, and the cultural and critical impact of each work.

Complements the module 'Acts of Reading'. Intended primarily for students with degree intentions in English, this course introduces key areas in critical theory that inform the current work of staff at Aberdeen. Asks students to consider the history of English studies and its relationship to colonialism, and how this impacts on conceptions of literature and authorship, alongside topics such as gender and sexuality, and genre.

Introduces students to colonial encounters ranging from Muslim Iberia to the pre-conquest Americas and continuing into the period of the Spanish Empire. From the nineteenth century, conquest and colonial encounters continued as newly-independent Spanish American states seized indigenous territories, while colonial mentalities re-surfaced in contexts as diverse as the Spanish Civil War and Southern Cone dirty wars.

Focusing on major cities in Europe and the Americas, uses a range of texts, including films, poetry and fiction, to investigate urban spaces as sites of promise, power and loss. Representations of global cities, and experiences of urban dwellers, highlight themes such as empire, identity, leisure, labour and love.

Studying a range of plays gets behind the mythology of Shakespeare, and rediscovers the dynamic inventiveness of the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were the principal players in a period of literary experimentation that reinvented the possibilities of literature.

Aims to prepare intending Honours students of Spanish and Latin American Studies for their compulsory period abroad in a Spanish-speaking country. Develops further Spanish language skills, both receptive and productive. Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis contribute to the development of both sets of skills.

Uses texts, which can include plays, films, novels, music, letters and an etiquette guide, to understand issues, concerns and themes in Latin American history. Organised chronologically and each week classes focus on texts from a particular country as a means to discuss bigger questions, such as how to make a new nation after three hundred years of colonial rule and a decade of warfare.

Core prescribed course open only to Junior Honours Spanish and Latin American Studies students and a selected range of other programmes at the appropriate level. Aims to enable you to identify and use, accurately, fluently, and with an appropriate level of sophistication, a range of vocabulary and linguistic registers at advanced level.

Explores the poetry, drama and prose of a period often referred to as the golden age of English literature. A period which saw Shakespeare and his contemporaries produce innovative new literary works in which the language of desire took centre stage.

The Romantic movement swept Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and produced some of the most innovative and exciting literature that has ever been seen. Explores the ways in which the Romantic movement manifested itself across Britain and Ireland and considers writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Austen and Byron.

While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is in fact instrumental in the emergence of the form. Explores the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Includes writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Galt, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Jane Findlater.

The early twentieth century was a time of great literary experimentation as literary modernists rose to the challenge to make it new. Explores modernism's stylistic experimentation while also considering the social contexts and changes that shaped this literature. Examines a range of writers, genres, movements and locations.

Final Spanish language course within the degree that will provide students with advanced comprehension and writing skills in general and specialised registers.

Year-long course unit combines dissertation research with research methods training. The dissertation is a piece of extended independent research (8,000-10,000 words long), structured as a critical evaluation, analysis or argument, about a topic germane to Spanish and Latin American Studies.