Student profile
Type of Degree
The ideal profile for someone who wishes to study the Bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Studies is a person with an interest in the humanities and linguistics, a good memory, an aptitude for understanding, interest in Spanish and Latin American culture and literature, good written expression, an ability to summarise, a gift for languages, reasoning and abstraction skills and an interest in reading, as well as imagination, creativity and the capacity for reflection.
Official University Bachelor’s Degree valid in the entire European Higher Education Area.
WORLD HERITAGE
This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements
Career opportunities Graduates in Hispanic Studies will be highly qualified to work in areas relating to communication. As well as a professional profile related to Spanish Language teaching, graduates in Hispanic Studies can focus their professional career on linguistic and cultural mediation, linguistic and literary planning and consultancy, media management and consultancy, international relations, diplomatic representation, tourism and cultural management, publishing, work related to translation and interpretation, business and the civil service in positions that require a good knowledge of the Spanish Language.
Course contents The basic aim of the Bachelor’s Degree in Hispanic Studies is to train professionals with a high level of aptitude in expression and understanding of the Spanish language, and sufficient knowledge of a foreign language, as well as an overall knowledge of the linguistic, historical, cultural and literary milieu in the Spanish-speaking countries. In specific terms, future graduates must have descriptive and analytical skills that enable them to engage in an in-depth synchronic and diachronic study of the Spanish language, in the interpretation of literary texts, in teaching the Spanish language, and in editing of texts and other work related to knowledge of the Spanish-speaking countries. The educational content focuses on the acquisition of Spanish and a foreign language in textual and contextual analysis methods; on studying the history of the Spanish language and its literature; on the description and analysis of the phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic-discursive levels of the Spanish language; and on an understanding of the social, historical, political and philosophical contexts related to the Hispanic world, from a perspective based on democratic values, gender equality and the culture of peace.
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AND ARTS Colegio San José de Caracciolos
C/ Trinidad, 3 y 5 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) www.uah.es/filosofiayletras
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Bachelor’s Degree in:
Overall credit distribution SUBJECT TYPE
Hispanic Studies
ECTS
Basic Training (B)
60
Obligatory (Ob)
90
Optional (Opt)
72
Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (Ob)
18
TOTAL CREDITS
240
STUDY PLAN FIRST YEAR First semester
Type
ECTS
Type
ECTS
Introduction to Linguistics
B
6
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
Second semester
B
6
Latin I / Greek I
B
6
Latin II / Greek II
B
6
Medieval Hispanic Literature
B
6
The Linguistic Disciplines
B
6
Introduction to Spanish Grammar
B
6
Narrative of the Spanish Golden Centuries
B
6
English I/French I/German I/ Catalan I/Portuguese I
B
6
English II/French II/German II/ Catalan II/Portuguese II
B
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
Type
ECTS
Ob
6
SECOND YEAR First semester
Type
ECTS
Ob
6
Spanish Syntax
The Poetry and Theatre of Spain’s Golden Age
Ob
6
Spanish Literature of the XVIII and XIX Centuries
Ob
6
History of Spanish: Phonetics and Phonology
Ob
6
Varieties of Spanish
Ob
6
Literary Language: Poetry
Ob
6
Literary Language: Prose
Ob
6
Opt
6
Cross-Disciplinary Skills II
Total ECTS
30
Morphology of Spanish
Cross-Disciplinary Skills I
Second semester
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
Type
ECTS
Ob
6
THIRD YEAR First semester Semantics and Lexicology
Type
ECTS
Ob
6
Second semester Linguistic Analysis and Commentary of Texts
Spanish Narrative of the Twentieth Century
Ob
6
Analysis and Commentary of Literary Texts
Ob
6
History of Spanish: Morphology and Syntax
Ob
6
Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry and Theatre
Ob
6
Latin American Literature
Ob
6
Optional 3 (professional)
Opt
6
Optional 1 (theoretical)
Opt
6
Optional 4 (theoretical)
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
Type
ECTS
FOURTH YEAR Type
ECTS
Optional 2 (complementary)
First semester
Opt
6
Students may choose between:
Second semester
Optional 5 (professional)
Opt
6
— Optional 9 (professional)
Opt
6
Optional 6 (theoretical)
Opt
6
— Optional 10 (complementary)
Opt
6
Optional 7 (theoretical)
Opt
6
— External Practical Training
Opt
12
Optional 8 (complementary)
Opt
6
Bachelor's Degree Final Project
Ob
18
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 240 B: Basic Training; Ob: Obligatory; Opt: Optional