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Sabela Melchor-Couto

This programme includes a fully accredited, compulsory year abroad in Spain or Latin America

About the course

With 420 million speakers in Spain, Latin America, the US and elsewhere, Spanish is the third most widely spoken language in the world. This programme equips you with the linguistic skills to travel and work among Spanish-speaking people, and also to explore their history and culture. You can join the programme as a complete beginner, or with A-level Spanish, or as a native speaker. From the second year on, most of the teaching is in Spanish, and most tutors are native Spanish speakers.
Course overview


Full programme details

Type

Undergraduate
BA/BSc Combined Honours

Duration

Full-time: 4 years; Part-time: by arrangement

Department

Media, Culture and Language

Tuition fees

£8,500 (2013; UK/EU)

Cash scholarships and bursaries available

Entry tariff

300 points

Single or Combined

Combined honours

View combinations

Facilities

The University of Roehampton has exceptional facilities including an extensive Library and Learning Services, and state-of-the-art teaching spaces in modern buildings.

On campus

The University Library has excellent resources for the study of Spanish. You will also have access to the Languages Centre, which is well equipped with video-viewing facilities, satellite TV and multimedia CALL packages.

Off campus

Roehampton is close to the many world-class facilities in London, including the extremely well-resourced libraries of the Instituto Cervantes and Canning House, as well as the materials and workshops organised the the Consejeria de Educacion of the Spanish Embassy in London.

Many other Cultural Offices of Embassies of Spanish-speaking countries also offer varied programmes of activities of interest to anybody studying a Spanish degree.

Career opportunities

The University of Roehampton has an enviable record in graduate employment. Employers want a complete package of qualification, experience and life skills, so we provide all sorts of career-boosting opportunities, such as internships, work or volunteer placements, networking events, and semesters at universities abroad.

When you study Spanish at Roehampton you have the opportunity to experience a work placement at different stages of your degree. You may choose to work for a company or NGO in Spain or Latin America during your Year Abroad (normally in your third year), but you may also register for the Work-based Language Placement module in the final year, in which you earn your credits by volunteering in a Spanish-speaking organisation (such as Latin American House, or the Migrant Resource Centre, among others).

Our graduates are well placed to find employment both in the UK and throughout the world. Recent Spanish graduates have found positions related to their language skills in:

  • governmental agencies
  • advertising
  • publishing
  • export companies
  • teaching
  • the civil service.
Find out what else you can do with a Spanish degree
 

Combinations

CourseUCAS code CourseUCAS code
Business ManagementRN42 JournalismPR54
FilmRP43 PhotographyWR64
English Literature QR34   

Key Information Set (KIS)

Department of Media, Culture and Language

Roehampton has one of the most diverse student bodies of any university in the UK, and we develop the skills they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace. Languages underpin this international exchange and the department is proud to incorporate within it the Centre for Language Studies.

Go to the Department of Media, Culture and Language homepage.

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