MA Hispanic Studies

About the course

Extend your knowledge of Hispanic language and culture with this structured but flexible course.

There are taught modules and optional tailor-made directed reading modules. The course includes research training, supervised study on a specialised linguistic, literary, cultural or social topic related to your other chosen areas, and a dissertation. We also offer an introductory course in Portuguese.

Teaching

• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Practical sessions of analysis and discussion

Assessment

• Essays
• Reviews
• Translations
• Dissertation

Your career

You'll develop the skills for a career in areas as diverse as higher education, export marketing, creative writing, librarianship and arts administration.

Our department

We're recognised as a centre of excellence in Hispanic research. We possess outstanding strengths in the field of Latin American literature, culture and society, contemporary Spanish culture and society and nineteenth-century Spanish literature – with a major research project on Pérez Galdós.

We're specialists in Catalan studies, and the modern literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world. We also have expertise in contemporary Spanish politics and the novel, the media in the Spanish-speaking world, and Hispanic linguistics, language policy and planning.

Facilities and resources

We're based in a new, specially designed building, with modern facilities for teaching and research. Our regular research seminars, conferences and study days give you the chance to keep up with innovative thinking and research.

You'll have access to all the materials you'd expect from a major research university, including an extensive collection of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan-language literature and films, newspapers and periodicals.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form