BA Hispanic Studies and Politics (HSSU04) ML

2019 - 2020

Year 1

This level is no longer running.

Year 2

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (20 credits)

A student will take

Semester 1
POL229 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Degrees in Politics..	Political Analysis: Research Design and Data Analysis	AUT SEM	20 credits

A student will take units to the value of twenty credits from 2Bi or 2Bii

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Bi

Post A Level Spanish stream

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS230 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS231 HSS3017 HSS3018 HSS335 HSS6803 (when the module is running) CCo-requisites: HSS253 HSS253 HSS267 HSS267 + HSS130 and HSS131. This module is linked to HSS231.	Advanced Spanish Language I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS231 ⇐P⇒Pre-requisites: HSS230 Is a pre-requisite for: HSS3018 HSS335 HSS357 HSS6803 (when the module is running) CCo-requisites: HSS253 HSS253 HSS260 HSS266 + HSS130 and HSS131. This module is linked to HSS231.	Advanced Spanish Language II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Bii

Non A Level Spanish stream

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS270 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS3018 (when the module is running) CCo-requisites: HSS253 HSS253 + HSS140 and HSS141. This module is linked to HSS271.	Advanced Spanish Language	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS271 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS3018 (when the module is running) CCo-requisites: HSS253 HSS253 + HSS140 and HSS141. This module is linked to HSS271.	Advanced Spanish Language II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Full academic year
HSS227	Tradition, Transition and Modernity	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS228 + HSS130 and HSS131 or HSS140 and HSS141 and/or HSS190 and HSS191. HSS230 and HSS231 or HSS270 and HSS271 and/or HSS290 and HSS291.	Promised Lands	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS236 + HSS130 and HSS131 or HSS140 and HSS141. HSS230 and HSS231.	Hispanic Film	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS237 + HSS130 and HSS131, or HSS140 and HSS141, and/or HSS180 and HSS 181.. HSS230 and HSS231 or HSS270 and HSS271 and/or HSS280 and HSS281 and/or HSS282 and HSS283.	Nation and Identity in the Lusophone World	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS251 + HSS 130 and HSS 131 or HSS 140 and HSS 141.. HSS230 and HSS231 or HSS270 and HSS271.	Hispanic Fiction	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS252	Nation and Identities in Latin America	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS253	The Spanish Language: Structure and Use	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS254	Dictatorship, Revolution and Resistance	ACAD YR	20 credits

A student will take units to the value of twenty credits from either 2Di or 2Dii or 2Diii or 2Div or 2Dv

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Di

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Full academic year
HSS227	Tradition, Transition and Modernity	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS228 + HSS130 and HSS131 or HSS140 and HSS141 and/or HSS190 and HSS191. HSS230 and HSS231 or HSS270 and HSS271 and/or HSS290 and HSS291.	Promised Lands	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS236 + HSS130 and HSS131 or HSS140 and HSS141. HSS230 and HSS231.	Hispanic Film	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS237 + HSS130 and HSS131, or HSS140 and HSS141, and/or HSS180 and HSS 181.. HSS230 and HSS231 or HSS270 and HSS271 and/or HSS280 and HSS281 and/or HSS282 and HSS283.	Nation and Identity in the Lusophone World	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS251 + HSS 130 and HSS 131 or HSS 140 and HSS 141.. HSS230 and HSS231 or HSS270 and HSS271.	Hispanic Fiction	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS252	Nation and Identities in Latin America	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS253	The Spanish Language: Structure and Use	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS254	Dictatorship, Revolution and Resistance	ACAD YR	20 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Dii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS280C P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS281C (when the module is running) + HSS130 and HSS131 or HSS140 and HSS141.	Intensive Portuguese I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS281C ⇐PPre-requisites: HSS280C	Intensive Portuguese II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Diii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS282H P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS283H (when the module is running)	Further Portuguese: Language and Culture I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS283H ⇐PPre-requisites: HSS282H	Further Portuguese: Language and Culture II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Div

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS290C P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS291C (when the module is running) + HSS130 and HSS131 or HSS140 and HSS141.	Intensive Catalan I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS291C ⇐PPre-requisites: HSS290C	Intensive Catalan II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

2Dv

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS290I P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS291I HSS291I (when the module is running) + Beginners: no prerequisites. Advanced: HSS 190.	Intensive Catalan I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS291I ⇐PPre-requisites: HSS290I + This module is linked to HSS290.	Intensive Catalan II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (40 credits)

A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
POL2000 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Left: Past, Present & Future	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL217	The Political Economy of Global Capitalism	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL223 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	International Relations Theory	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL234 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual degrees in Politics.	Political Theory in Practice	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
POL206 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Politics and Government of the European Union	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL230 + Restricted to studentsstudying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Contemporary Security Challenges	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL235 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Development	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL237 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Human Rights, Power and Politics	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL238 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Oppression and Resistance	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL239 + Restricted to students studying single or dual degrees in Politics..	Autocracies and Democracies	SPR SEM	20 credits

Year 3

Before proceeding to the final year a student will spend one session in an appropriate country, as an English assistant in a school, or in attendance as a full-time student at a university or other approved institution, or gaining appropriate academic or professional experience, the arrangements being subject to the approval of the Head of School.

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (80 credits)

In respect of attendance for which no grades will be awarded

A student will take

Semester 1
HSS3900	Hispanic Studies Year Abroad	AUT SEM	40 credits
Semester 2
HSS3901	Hispanic Studies Year Abroad	SPR SEM	40 credits

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (40 credits)

A student will take

Semester 1
MDL306 + SLC students only.	SLC Year Abroad	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
MDL307 + SLC students only.	SLC Year Abroad	SPR SEM	20 credits

Grades awarded in respect of units listed at 3C above will carry the same weight as grades awarded at Level 2.

Year 4

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (20 credits)

A student will take

Semester 1
HSS330 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS331 HSS335 (when the module is running) CCo-requisites: HSS3018 HSS355 HSS379	Advanced Spanish Language III	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS331 ⇐PPre-requisites: HSS330 CCo-requisites: HSS3017 HSS335 HSS341 HSS378 + This module is linked to HSS330.	Advanced Spanish Language IV	SPR SEM	10 credits

units to the value of sixty credits from the following

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Bi

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
POL3001	The Political Economy of Africa	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3005 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3006 (when the module is running) + Restricted to students studying single and dual honours Politics degrees..	Civilisation, Empire and Hegemony	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3026 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	War, Peace and Justice	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3028 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Political Ecology: Power, Nature and Society	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3030 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Marx and Contemporary Marxism	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3032 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Anti-Politics and Democratic Crisis	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3033 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3034 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Narcopolitics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3035 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Justice in World Politics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3043 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Politics of Security	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3046 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Corporations in Global Politics: Possibilities, Tensions, and Ambiguities	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3119 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3120 (when the module is running) + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Degrees in Politics..	Party Politics: Competition, Strategies & Campaigns	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3129 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3130 (when the module is running)	Parliamentary Studies	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3137 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3138 (when the module is running)	Peacekeeping, State-building and International Intervention	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3139 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: POL3140 (when the module is running) + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Pandemics and Panics: Health, Security and Global Politics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3151 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Animals, Ethics and Politics	AUT SEM	20 credits
POL3161 + Restricted to students studying single and dual honours Politics degrees..	Political Theory in An Age of Total War	AUT SEM	20 credits
Semester 2
POL3019 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Terrorism, Violence and the State	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3031 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	The Making of the Modern Middle East	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3042 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	The Political Economy of Social Policy	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3044 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Hunger in the Global North	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3045 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3109 + Restricted to students studying Single and Dual degrees in Politics..	Britain and the European Union	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3123 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Degrees in Politics..	Liberalism and its Critics	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3153 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Sex, Race and Death: Feminist Perspectives on War, Violence and (In)Security	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL3155	German Politics: Domestic Contestation and Global Impact	SPR SEM	20 credits
POL348 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Framing Politics? Economic Ideas as Political Weapons	SPR SEM	20 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Bii

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 2
POL3040 CCo-requisites: POL3041 + Restricted to students studying Single/Dual Honours degrees in Politics..	Research Project 1	SPR SEM	20 credits
Full academic year
POL3039 + Restricted to students studying a single or dual honours degree in Politics..	Dissertation in Politics	ACAD YR	40 credits
POL3103 + Restricted to students studying Single or Dual Degrees in Politics..	Dissertation (Work Related)	ACAD YR	40 credits
POL3104 + Satisfactory completion of POL229. Restricted to students studying dual/single honours degrees in Politics..	Dissertation in Political Analysis	ACAD YR	40 credits

units to the value of forty credits from the following, not more than twenty credits being selected from one of 4Cii, 4Ciii, 4Civ or 4Cv below.

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Ci

A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Full academic year
HSS3001 + HSS130, HSS131, HSS230 and HSS231 Or HSS140, HSS141, HSS270 and HSS271.	Civilisation and Barbarism in Latin America	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3005 + Students need to have completed Spanish language at Levels 1 and 2.	The Idea of the Modern in Latin American Fiction	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3007	Barcelona: Culture of the City	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3008	Cultural Crosscurrents in the Lusophone World	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3013 + HSS130, HSS131, HSS230 and HSS231 Or HSS140, HSS141, HSS270 and HSS271.	Political Culture in the Hispanic World	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3014 + Students will normally have studied Spanish language at Level 2 and are studying Spanish language at Level 3..	Questioning Spain	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3017 ⇐PPre-requisites: HSS230 CCo-requisites: HSS331 + HSS130, HSS131, HSS230 and HSS231 Or HSS140, HSS141, HSS270 and HSS271.	History of the Spanish Language	ACAD YR	20 credits
HSS3018	Popular Music in the Hispanic World	ACAD YR	20 credits
MDL313 + Core Level 1 & core Level 2 courses i.e. HSS 130 and HSS 131 or HSS 140 and HSS 141. HSS 230 and HSS 231. Core Level 3 language course HSS 330 and HSS 331. Yes, the students would need an advanced knowledge of Spanish as English translations are not available for vast majority of material..	Spanish Colonialism in North Africa and its Legacy	ACAD YR	20 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Cii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS380	Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS381 XCannot be taken with: MLT133C MLT133H MLT133I MLT133M	Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Ciii

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS382 XCannot be taken with: MLT272C MLT272H MLT272I MLT272M	Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture III	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS383 XCannot be taken with: MLT273C MLT273H MLT273I MLT273M	Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture IV	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (20 credits)

4Civ

A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HSS390 P⇒Is a pre-requisite for: HSS391 (when the module is running)	Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture I	AUT SEM	10 credits
Semester 2
HSS391	Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture II	SPR SEM	10 credits

AND

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units

4Cv

A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MDL301	Social Approaches to Multilingualism	AUT SEM	20 credits
Full academic year
MDL304	Dissertation	ACAD YR	20 credits
MDL305	Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages	ACAD YR	20 credits

⇐P	-	This module has pre-requisite(s).
P⇒	-	This module is a pre-requisite for other modules.
C	-	This module has co-requisite(s).
X	-	Some modules cannot be studied in combination with this module.
+	-	Additional information about requirements for studying this module.

Please note that the regulations displayed on this page reflect provision in 2019/20 and may not reflect study undertaken in other academic sessions. To see regulations that applied in another academic session, please return to the Programme Regulations Finder home screen and select the appropriate session.