• Total units 24 Units
  • Areas of interest European Languages
  • Minor code SPAH-MIN
Spanish Minor

The Spanish minor provides students with the skills needed to develop an ability to understand, speak, read and write Spanish. Students are exposed to Spanish as used across the Spanish-speaking world, and a wide variety of sources (including newspapers, magazines, media, cinema, songs and literature) are drawn on. In this way, culture, history, politics and society in the Spanish-speaking world are incorporated into the classes to enhance the language-learning experience. Students also have the opportunity to deepen their understanding and strengthen their language skills through specialist courses in Hispanic Linguistics. Students with existing knowledge of Spanish can begin at a more advanced level, and the exact sequence of courses depends on the level at which the student begins the minor.

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. communicate in Spanish in a range of contexts
  2. demonstrate a basic understanding of the structure and uses of Spanish
  3. demonstrate a basic understanding of the cultural and linguistics aspects of Spanish language and societies and their socio-historical context 
  4. construct a schema of the connections between the Spanish language and its geographical, social and cultural origins
  5. recognise the importance of intercultural communication.

 

Learning Outcomes

  1. communicate in Spanish in a range of contexts
  2. demonstrate a basic understanding of the structure and uses of Spanish
  3. demonstrate a basic understanding of the cultural and linguistics aspects of Spanish language and societies and their socio-historical context 
  4. construct a schema of the connections between the Spanish language and its geographical, social and cultural origins
  5. recognise the importance of intercultural communication.
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Requirements

(All Language Studies (LANG) courses must have a Course Topic of Spanish to be included in this minor.)

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

A minimum of 18 units from the completion of the following list:

SPAN1001 - Introduction to Spanish I (6 units)

SPAN1002 - Introduction to Spanish II (6 units)

SPAN2001 - Continuing Spanish I (6 units)

SPAN2002 - Continuing Spanish II (6 units)

SPAN3001 - Intermediate Spanish I (6 units)

SPAN3012 - Intermediate Spanish II (Language and Culture) (6 units)

SPAN3031 - Advanced Spanish Topics in Language and Linguistics (6 units)

SPAN3030 - Advanced Spanish topics in Language and Culture (6 units)

SPAN3100 - Current Affairs in the Spanish-speaking World (6 units)

SPAN3101 - Music and Society in the Spanish Speaking World (6 units)

SPAN2601 - The Sounds of Spanish (6 units)

SPAN2603 - History of the Spanish language. A linguistic time travel (6 units)

SPAN2604 - Language variation across the Spanish-speaking world (6 units)

SPAN2102 - CULTURA, cultura, kultura: Spanish Language and Culture Workshop (6 units)

SPAN2602 - The Structure of Spanish (6 units)

SPAN3022 - Intermediate Spanish II (Language and Linguistics) (6 units)

SPAN2107 - Cinema from the Spanish-speaking World (6 units)

A maximum of 6 units from the completion of the following list:

LANG3001 - Translation across Languages: the translation of literary texts (6 units)

LANG3002 - Translation across Languages: specialised material (6 units)

LANG3005 - Language and Identity in a European Context (6 units)

LANG3004 - Language and Society in Latin America (6 units)

 

 

 

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