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Spanish and History (BA)
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Spanish and History (BA) starting September 2022 for 4 years
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Examine past and present Spanish cultures alongside world history with this degree. You'll spend your third year abroad practising your Spanish fluency in a Spanish-speaking country. This combined BA degree can help prepare a variety of careers. These include translation, the media, museum curation or teaching in the UK or abroad.
On this Spanish and History degree, you'll discover the Spanish language, its history and society. You'll gain skills to critically engage with Spanish cultures.
You'll look at the different ways historians have approached the human past, alongside specific areas in history.
You'll spend your third year immersed in Spanish language and culture in a country where Spanish is spoken. You can choose to be an English language assistant (British Council), study at a university (Erasmus), or be employed through an approved work placement.
As part of this degree, you can:
gain fluency in Spanish
choose from over 100 modules in History
access document collections, including the Wellington, Palmerston and Mountbatten papers, and the Parkes archive, which is one of the largest Jewish documentation centres in Europe
attend our visiting lecture and seminar programme
This course is based at Avenue.
This qualification is awarded by the University of Southampton.
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For Academic year 202223
AAB including Grades AB in History (or a related subject*) and Spanish
A-levels additional information
Offers typically exclude General Studies and Critical Thinking. *Related subject includes subjects such as English, Philosophy, Religious Studies or Classical Civilisation or other humanities based essay writing subjects. Students applying without History will need to make a case in their personal statement.
More information about A-levels
A-levels with Extended Project Qualification
If you are taking an EPQ in addition to 3 A levels, you will receive the following offer in addition to the standard A level offer:
ABB including Grades AB in History (or a related subject*) and Spanish, and grade A in the EPQ
A-levels contextual offer
We are committed to ensuring that all applicants with the potential to succeed, regardless of their background, are encouraged to apply to study with us. The additional information gained through contextual data allows us to recognise an applicant's potential to succeed in the context of their background and experience. Applicants who are highlighted in this way will be made an offer which is lower than the typical offer for that programme, as follows: ABB including History or a related subject* and Spanish
International Baccalaureate Diploma
Pass, with 34 points overall with 17 points at Higher Level, including 6 and 5 at Higher Level in History (or a related subject*) and Spanish
International Baccalaureate Diploma additional information
*Related subject includes subjects such as English, Philosophy, Religious Studies or Classical Civilisation or other humanities based essay writing subjects. Students applying without History will need to make a case in their personal statement.
More information about International Baccalaureate Diploma
International Baccalaureate contextual offer
We are committed to ensuring that all learners with the potential to succeed, regardless of their background, are encouraged to apply to study with us. The additional information gained through contextual data allows us to recognise a learner's potential to succeed in the context of their background and experience. Applicants who are highlighted in this way will be made an offer which is lower than the typical offer for that programme.
International Baccalaureate Career Programme (IBCP) statement
Offers will be made on the individual Diploma Course subject(s) and the career-related study qualification. The CP core will not form part of the offer. Where there is a subject pre-requisite(s), applicants will be required to study the subject(s) at Higher Level in the Diploma course subject and/or take a specified unit in the career-related study qualification. Applicants may also be asked to achieve a specific grade in those elements. Please see the University of Southampton International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) Statement for further information. Applicants are advised to contact their Faculty Admissions Office for more information.
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Access to HE Diploma
Irish Leaving Certificate
Scottish Qualification offers
Cambridge Pre-U
Welsh Baccalaureate
European Baccalaureate
60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at Level 3, of which 39 must be at Distinction and 6 credits at Merit, to include 6 Distinctions in History or a related subject*, plus A in A level Spanish
Access to HE additional information
Irish Leaving Certificate (first awarded 2017)
H1 H2 H2 H2 H2 H2 including History (or a related subject*) and Spanish
A2 A2 A2 B1 B1 B1 including History (or a related subject*) and Spanish at A2 and B1
Irish certificate additional information
Scottish Qualification
Offers will be based on exams being taken at the end of S6. Subjects taken and qualifications achieved in S5 will be reviewed. Careful consideration will be given to an individual's academic achievement, taking in to account the context and circumstances of their pre-university education.
Please see the University of Southampton's Curriculum for Excellence Scotland Statement (PDF) for further information. Applicants are advised to contact their Faculty Admissions Office for more information.
D3 D3 M2 in three principal subjects including History (or a related subject*) and Spanish
Cambridge Pre-U additional information
AAB from 3 A levels including Grades AB in History (or a related subject*) and Spanish or AA from two A levels including History (or a related subject*) and Spanish and B from the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenge Certificate
Welsh Baccalaureate additional information
Welsh Baccalaureate contextual offer
80% overall including grade 8.5 and 8 in History (or a related subject*) and Spanish
Other ways to qualify
GCSE requirements
Applicants must hold GCSE English language (or GCSE English) (minimum grade 4/C) and mathematics (minimum grade 4/C)
Find the equivalent international qualifications for our entry requirements.
If English isn't your first language, you'll need to complete an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) to demonstrate your competence in English. You'll need all of the following scores as a minimum:
IELTS score requirements
We accept other English language tests. Find out which English language tests we accept.
You might meet our criteria in other ways if you do not have the qualifications we need. Find out more about:
our Access to Southampton scheme for students living permanently in the UK (including residential summer school, application support and scholarship)
skills you might have gained through work or other life experiences (otherwise known as recognition of prior learning)
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Please contact our enquiries team if you're not sure that you have the right experience or qualifications to get onto this course.
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About this course Course structure
You'll study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. Compulsory modules build your mastery of Spanish and History, and our wide range of optional modules allow you to tailor your learning to suit your interests and ambitions.
You'll also be able to broaden your studies by selecting interdisciplinary modules from another subject.
During your year abroad you'll produce an investigative project, written in Spanish.
You do not need to choose your modules when you apply. We'll guide you through the process before you start.
Year 1 overview
Compulsory modules will give you the opportunity to get foundational knowledge in world history. You'll develop your Spanish language skills to stage 4 of the 7-stage language learning programme.
You'll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from. For example, you can learn about the history, politics, narrative and cultural identity of the Hispanic world. Or, you can be introduced to histories in Portugal, Pakistan, Britain and Russia.
Spanish language modules will help you reach stage 5 and prepare for your year abroad.
Optional modules cover topics ranging from the history of the EU and European identity to the life of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
You can also select modules from other subjects. For example, you can choose linguistic modules on how to teach English as a foreign language, or study multilingualism.
You'll spend your third year abroad either:
as an English language assistant
studying on a university course
on an approved work placement
You will also do an independent study project.
Find out more about the year abroad.
You can choose to produce a dissertation in Spanish or History. You'll reach stage 7 in Spanish and study aspects of Hispanic languages and cultures. For example, you can study 'Barrios and Borders: Language and Identity amongst US Latinos'. You can also choose from specialist history options, which include:
medieval love
the Tudor court
China and the Cold War
Want more detail? See all the modules in the course.
Entry requirements Modules
For entry in Academic Year 2022-23
You must study the following modules in year 1:
Academic Skills for ML students
This module is designed to ease the transition from A-level to the first year of a single or combined honours degree programme by setting out clearly what we expect of you at undergraduate level and equipping you with the resources to be able to operate a...
Spanish Language Stage 4
The aim of every language course at the University is to enable you to communicate in your target language (TL) at that particular level and in your particular area of interest. We use the word 'communicate' in its widest sense, meaning that you will not ...
The History and Politics of the Hispanic World
This course will introduce students to the major themes in Spanish and Spanish American history and politics over the past five hundred years.
World Histories: Contact, Conflict and Culture from Ancient to Modern
Historians have many different ways of viewing the past: we do not just pick up facts like sweets from a jar. Instead, we craft different stories based on the sources we choose to examine, the approaches we choose to take and the way that our training, ou...
You must also choose from the following modules in year 1:
Applications of Linguistics
This unit will introduce you to the main areas relevant to applied language studies.
Castles: Military technology and social change from the middle ages to the modern
Castles are one of the most visible and imposing reminders of our medieval past. The ruins we see now are, however, the result of dynamic changes over the course of the middle ages and later periods, reflecting significant developments in society, culture...
Clash of Superpowers: United States versus China
In this module you will explore the competing visions of a global order promoted by the U.S. government and the Chinese Communist Party. You will consider diverse case studies including: contrasting economic and ideological models; views on security and s...
Content and discontent: Culture and British society, 1815-1914
This module will explore British culture(s) at a time of massive transformation. We often associate culture with forms of relaxation, art or entertainment. But culture is, and was, about far more than that. It is not just a set of things, whether that's p...
Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning
This module is intended to provide an outline for some of the main aspects of Linguistics.
Humanities, the Human and the Non-Human
This module both challenges and enriches the idea of 'the human' as an idea for 'the humanities'. You will reflect upon 'the human' as a concept that exceeds the individual person in literary, artistic, historical and political texts. Taking this challe...
Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
Biological science tells us what items in our world are potentially edible, but culture decides what constitutes food. Culture informs us as to whether a specific item is appropriate, appetising, valued, desirable, prohibited, restricted, staple or medici...
Jewish Life and Death in Europe
The first part of this module introduces and explains important developments for the Jewish minority in Europe from the Enlightenment to the end of the inter-War period, from the late 18th century to 1933. While this history has often been regarded as a p...
Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain's Past
The landscapes and seascapes of Britain play host to one of the world's most varied and intriguing archaeological records. With an occupational history spanning one million years, it tells a complex inter-twined story of social, physical and environmenta...
Pandemic, Famine, War and Popular Revolt: The Apocalyptic Fourteenth Century
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – War, Famine, Plague and Death – were believed to presage the end of the world, and many Europeans living through the fourteenth century believed this was close at hand. The Great Famine (1315-22) and the arrival of th...
Racism and Resistance: From Slavery to BLM
This module connects the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the US and UK to histories of slavery, resistance and racism, allowing students to explore the beginnings of slavery, and the history of the institution, how enslaved people resisted slavery, ...
Reading Culture
This introductory course will give you an overview of the history of literary and cultural studies, and to make you aware of a range of different approaches to cultural texts.
Reading the City
This module will introduce you to studying questions of history, society and culture through the prism of Southampton in order that you can apply those approaches to the study of cities in the French-, Spanish- and German-speaking world.
Rebellions and Uprising in the age of the Tudors
The aims of this module are to introduce you to the turbulent sequence of rebellions which took place during the Tudor period, to encourage you to ponder on the causes and consequences of those uprisings, and to help you to understand why previous histori...
Sexual Politics: Gender History in Twentieth Century Britain
How does gender shape our lives? How does gender shape history? This course explores British from the Edwardian period to second wave feminism, through the lens of gender and sex. We will be thinking about how ordinary people's lives were shaped by gender...
The End of the World: Apocalyptic Visions of History
Apocalyptic texts are important because they represent an expression of political turmoil or social and cultural fears. They shed light on attitudes to historical events and to surrounding cultures at crucial periods in the development of world history. '...
The module introduces you to the political, social and cultural history of the period of revolution in late eighteenth-century France. The revolution of 1789 remains a great event of mythic proportions: it is, in the periodization of French history, the b...
The other Romans: a social history of Rome
Ancient history is popularly presented as the history of dead, white leaders, but what about the rest of the population? Too often the history of the non-elite, non-adult, non-male is written through 'common-sense' assumptions about essentialist differenc...
Wonderful things: World history in 40 objects
As he broke the seal and opened the door to Tutankamun's tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter declared, breathlessly, that he could see 'Wonderful things'. Ancient things have this special appeal. They enchant and captivate. They excite curiosity and unleash...
Managing Research and Learning
The module will clarify the links between the Year Abroad project and modules in years two and four.
Ancient Greeks at War
From the legendary tales of the Trojan War up to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great, warfare played a central role in ancient Greek history and society. This module allows you to examine ancient Greek warfare from a range of different sources a...
Ancient Rome: the First Metropolis
This module focusses on the city of Rome and its development from its early foundation through to the third century AD. It explores the evidence for one of the most important cities of the ancient world, which at its height was home to approximately a mil...
Arabian Nights and Days: The World of the 1001 Nights
The disparate body of literature collected together under the title 1001 Nights, more popularly known as the Arabian Nights, is set primarily in the cities of the medieval Middle East, including Baghdad and Basra in Iraq, Cairo in Egypt and Damascus in Sy...
Blitzed Brits: Politics, Society and Culture in the Second World War
The Second World War ended more than seventy years ago, but the echoes and memories of the war still permeate modern British society, culture and politics. This course will explore the history of the Second World War in Britain, from appeasement to the el...
British Portraiture: Curating the Self, 1600-Present
Chivalry, c. 1250-1500
Today, chivalry is readily associated with gentle(manly) behaviour, and more specifically with sportsmanship, gallantry and courtesy. While indisputably there has always been a 'civilising' component to chivalry, it is fascinating to see how our modern so...
Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
This course is designed to expand and deepen students' knowledge of the cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world, bringing together written texts, visual and conceptual art, political materials, and cinema from twentieth-century Portugal, Brazil, and Lus...
This course highlights and analyses the link between language structure and its situation of occurrence.
Ethnography of Latin America
This module uses ethnographic approaches to understand the diversity of Latin America's peoples and cultures. Emphasizing the emergence within Latin American anthropology of focuses on everyday life through topics such as kinship and family, ritual and re...
Exploring Spanish Linguistics
The unit introduces you to relevant issues of contemporary Spanish linguistics and establishes the basis for future application of linguistic principles.
From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain
This module presents a history of post-war multicultural Britain through the lens of British film and television, considering how our attitudes to 'race', sexuality and British identity more generally have been defined, challenged and changed by film and...
Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
The course examines major turning points in Spanish and Portuguese America from the middle nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on how these upheavals affected and reflected the politics of class, gender and race.
Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State
This module will problematize the concept of globalisation and explore and develop an understanding of its meaning in economic, political and cultural terms.
High, Popular and Mass Culture in Modern Spain
This course will examine high, popular and mass cultural forms in twentieth century Spain and Latin America. It will discuss notions of mass reproduction and its cultural consequences for cultural form and audience response, including the appropriation of...
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France
This module gives students a practical understanding of the importance of the questions of immigration, race and ethnicity in France.
Imperial China: From China's mythical emperors to the 19th century
This module will discuss Chinese history from its mythical beginnings to the 19th century (the time when China encountered the West). We will encounter famous figures like the philosopher Confucius, discuss the origins of the Silk Road and the Great Wall,...
Imperialism and Nationalism in British India
How did less than two thousand British officials rule an Indian population of three hundred million? Why did the words gymkhana, bungalow and shampoo enter the English language? What was the significance of the British constructing clock towers in numerou...
Islamism – from the 1980s to the present
Since the end of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980s, the modern world has witnessed the emergence of Islamist states and powerful Islamist political movements including in West Asia and the Near and Middle East: the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Is...
Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
McCarthyism
'I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in that State Department.' With these words, asserting both the exi...
This module will introduce you to the notion of 'Multilingualism', how this is understood and represented in different ways, and why it matters to you. You will explore how people become multilingual, and whether it makes a difference if multilinguals are...
Myth and the Ancient World
What are myths and what do they do? In "Myth and the Ancient World" you will explore how the Ancient Greeks used myths to make sense of the world and their position in it. The module covers a time span of some 900 years, from the time of Homer and Hesiod ...
Nelson Mandela: A South African life
In 1948, Daniel Malan's National Party took power in South Africa. Malan's election victory over the Jan Smuts-led United Party and Labour Party alliance was only a slender one, and few of the National Party's opponents could have envisaged that it would ...
This course examines three areas of psycholinguistics which help to understand what the relationship between language and the human mind might be.
Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
Early modern England is a period associated with Elizabeth I and the Tudor court, the plays of Shakespeare, blood and violence on the Jacobean stage, the discovery of new worlds, and the persecution of witches and heretics. The diversity and vitality of t...
Ragtime! The Making of Modern America
For the United States, the turn of the twentieth century was a turbulent, transformative time: an age of embattled political parties and insurgent Populists, mass immigration and overseas war, millionaire capitalists and impoverished farmers, all set to t...
Rebels with a Cause: The Historical Origins of Christianity
The first century CE saw the rise of a new world religion that was to have an ever changing and at times turbulent history up to today. This module will explore the historical origins of Christianity and the contexts from which it emerged. In particular, ...
Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping
We are all, in one way or another, participants in the consumer society. Whether we buy for necessity - life essentials such as food - or view it as an enjoyable leisure activity, our purchase of goods is part of a wider cultural movement pushing us to 's...
Roman Emperors and Imperial Lives
For most people even today Nero was one of the 'bad' emperors (he killed his mother), and Caligula was mad and depraved (he wanted to appoint his favourite horse as consul, and committed incest with his sisters); but the categorisation of emperors along m...
Sex, Death and Money: the United Kingdom in the 1960s
The 1960s were a time of rapid social, political and cultural change in Britain. The decade saw Britain – and especially London – finally steal the crown of cool from the United States. British pop culture exploded and was exported around the world. With ...
Sound and Voice
This course builds on the basic concepts of phonetics introduced in the first year, with an introduction to acoustic science for the study of speech sounds.
Stalin and Stalinism
This module begins with an assessment of the legacy of Lenin and goes on to investigate Stalin's rise to power and his methods in modernising economy and society. We will engage with historical debates concerning his role in the purges of the 1930s and th...
Syntax: Studying Language Structure
This course will provide you with an introduction to syntax within current linguistic theory.
This unit will introduce you to key issues, concepts and methods in teaching English as a second/foreign language.
The Age of Discovery? c.1350-c.1650
The Age of Discovery explores the maritime expansion of Europe from c.1350-c.1650 through the experiences of four European states: Portugal; Spain; England and the Netherlands. It therefore covers the transition of these states from medieval polities to R...
The British Atlantic World
This module focuses on the period between about 1600 and 1800, allowing you to explore the development of the British Empire in the Americas from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 up until the American Revolution and its aftermath. The module takes a broa...
The EU and European Identity
The course seeks to provide an overview of the evolution of the European Union (EU) from its early stages to the present. In so doing, it examines the ideas and history of the EU, the institutions of the EU, examples of specific issue areas and the presen...
The First British Empire: the beginnings of English dominance, 1050-1300
By the middle of the eleventh century, the various nations of the British Isles were characterised by quite distinct cultures and political and economic systems and elites. Yet the relationships between the various nations were entirely redrawn between ab...
The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
Blood, violence, terror, raids, pirates, rape and pillage are just some of the words associated with the Vikings in both the medieval and modern imagination. Their fearsome reputation is underlined by nicknames such as 'Blood Axe' and 'Skull-splitter', bu...
The Making of Englishness
This module examines changing notions of British (and, more specifically, English) national identity in relation to issues of race, ethnicity and immigration from the 1840s to the present day.
Underworlds: A cultural history of urban nightlife in the 19th and 20th centuries
"On 13 December 1838, on a cold and rainy night, a man of athletic build, dressed in a shabby jacket, crossed the Pont au Change and penetrated into the Cité […]. That night the wind was blowing violently through the alleyways of this dismal neighbourhood...
Variation and Change in English
This module takes an empirical approach to questions such as: - Are there patterns of speech and language associated with males and females in varieties of English? - What is the role of teenagers in the propagation of change in English? - After a...
Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present
This module will introduce you to German metropolitan culture and politics in the 20th century with particular reference to Vienna and Berlin, using a wide range of sources which will include literature, film and architecture.
When An Empire Falls: Culture and the British Empire, 1914-1960
The twentieth century witnessed a seismic transformation in Britain's relationship with the rest of the world. In 1914, Britain controlled the largest empire the world had ever seen. By 1960, the majority of Britain's colonies were independent, or on the ...
Witchcraft in England, 1542-1736
This module offers you the opportunity to study the history of witchcraft in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the period during which the great majority of prosecutions and executions for that supposed crime took place). On the modu...
You must study the following module in year 3:
Year Abroad Research Project YARP
The YEAR Abroad Research Project is a 6000 word piece of independent academic writing which you complete in the target language during your residence abroad (or during the summer between your second and final year, in case of exemption from the Year Abroa...
History Dissertation
The dissertation is a key component of your degree; in it you have a chance to show the skills of analysis and research you have learned during the three years of your course.
Modern Languages Dissertation
This unit will allow students to undertake independent research to produce an in-depth study of a specific topic located in one of the fields within Modern Languages.
The aim of every language course at the University is to enable you to communicate in your target language at that particular level and in your particular area of interest. We use the word 'communicate' in its widest sense, meaning that you will not only ...
A Short History of the Ethics of War
Wars have been fought throughout the history of mankind. Ethical concerns that they raised, or, in other words, the rights and wrongs of waging war, have been discussed from time immemorial. War has often been seen as an evil, a necessary evil, to be avoi...
A Short History of the Far Right
The resurgence of the far right is one of the most striking and challenging features of the 21st century political landscape. Attitudes and practices that were marginal and unrespectable just decades ago have gained considerable traction, whether measured...
A Short History of the Populist Leader
As the world responds to the global financial crisis, populist leaders have come to dominate political debate in countries across the world - from India to the United Kingdom to the United States. In engaging with this phenomena, we are faced with a conun...
America and the world, 1945-2020: technology, conflict and the lives of others (Part 1)
The history of the post-war world has been powerfully shaped by the decisions and actions of American political and military leaders, and by the deployment of American defense technologies. This module considers the significance of humanitarian concerns w...
This module continues the exploration of the impact of defense technologies and humanitarian concerns upon US foreign policy from end of the Cold War and the post-Cold War period, into the War on Terror. This includes the introduction of so-called 'precis...
An ambivalent asylum: the histories and memories of refugees in early twentieth-century France
This unit introduces you to some key definitions and concepts before providing an overview of the main phases of immigration in France from the 1880s to the late 1940s.
Audiovisual Translation
This module will introduce you to the different types of audiovisual translation and the various kinds of subtitles produced nowadays. You will learn about the interaction between text and image and the technical issues and constraints involved in creatin...
Barrios and Borders: Language and Identity amongst US Latinos
The module will introduce the main theoretical ideas of language and identity alongside tracing the historical, social and linguistic background to the presence of the so-called Latinos in the US. Issues of language policies in general and those affectin...
Crime and Punishment in England c.1688-1840 part 1
This course will span the period c.1688-c.1840, beginning with the reforms of the criminal code introduced following the Glorious Revolution, known as the 'Bloody Code', and concluding in the mid-nineteenth century with the introduction of the police forc...
Cultures in Contact: A Diverse Ancient World
Ancient History goes beyond Greece and Rome. The ancient world was incredibly diverse, inhabited by different cultures, religions, and societies which were closely connected and left their mark on each other, through interaction, conflict, and exchange. I...
Cultures in Contact: Resisting Rome
This module explores the Roman Empire, but from the perspective of those who resisted it, fought it, and rebelled against it. The study of the ancient world, throughout its different periods, is greatly influenced by Rome. Starting from its expansion duri...
Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative
Based on literary texts, films and visual materials from and about Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, this course is intended to reflect the cutting edge of Lusophone cultural production and Lusophone Studies research, whi...
English as a Global Language
This module explores the rise of English as a global language focusing on the factors that have led to, and the issues that have arisen from, its dominant status. You will learn about the interrelation between globalisation, standardisation and variabilit...
Entangled Histories: France and Germany in the mid-century era (Part 1)
This module explores the entangled histories of France and Germany between WW1 and the end of WW2. Resentment over the Treaty of Versailles was central to the emergence of radical nationalism in Germany after 1918; conversely, solving the 'German problem'...
This module explores Franco-German history between the Fall of France (1940) and the end of the 1950s. The first half focusses on the German occupation of France, exploring aspects of everyday life, collaboration and resistance, violence and the Holocaus...
Exiles, Migrants and Citizens: Narrating and documenting displacement in contemporary Spain
This unit approaches the study of migration and displacement as recurrent themes in Spanish social, political and cultural history since its emergence as a modern nation in 1492, an event itself inaugurated by three major population movements: internal re...
Forging the Raj: The East India Company and Britain's Asian World, part 1
What are the origins of Britain's long relationship with Asia? How did a trading company become a territorial power, with its own army and navy? What did people in Britain make of this phenomenon, and how did it influence their views of Britain's global e...
What are the origins of Britain's long relationship with Asia? How did a trading company become a territorial power, with its own army and navy? What did people in Britain make of this phenomenon, and how did it influence their views of Britain's global e...
From Tyranny to Revolution: England 1625-49: Part 1
This module provides an introduction to early Stuart England and explores the troubled reign of King Charles I before the English Civil War.
From Tyranny to Revolution: England, 1625-49 Part 2
This module investigates the events of the English Civil War of 1642-46 and explores the effects which that conflict had on the ordinary people of England and Wales.
Historical Memory in Modern Latin America
Language Teaching Theory and Practice
This unit examines the theory and practice of language teaching and explores 'reflective practice' as a set of skills that can be applied to your future working life.
One of the socially and culturally most significant consequences of transnational mobility is that urban populations in particular are increasingly multilingual: in global cities such as London, New York and Berlin there are speakers of hundreds of differ...
Living with the Romans: Urbanism in the Roman Empire
The towns in which the Romans lived are some of the most familiar features of the Roman world. Although they seem to look and feel like modern towns, they actually worked in quite different ways, a reflection of the fact that ancient Roman society was dis...
Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
Germany has had a long tradition of immigration and is one of the most multi-cultural countries in Europe today. We will examine the impact of diverse immigration movements on recent German history and notions of German identity. This includes examining b...
More than Pyramids & Pharaohs? Ancient Egypt in Context
The module provides an introduction to the history and archaeology of ancient Egypt. The module provides a broad sweep of Egyptian history from the Predynastic through to later periods. It introduces aspects of death, burial and commemoration, compares an...
Political Culture in Modern Russia, part 1
This module is a study of political culture in both imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, considering the media, surveillance and coercion. It will start with a question: what is propaganda, and how does it work? Chronologically, part one of this year-lon...
Presenting the past: Museums and Heritage
In this module we will examine how knowledge about the past is presented in museum exhibition and display. We will look at current practices in exhibition design and discuss the contemporary literature on communicating heritage to a range of audiences. Yo...
Public Service Interpreting
This module will provide students with both a practical and theoretical insight into the role of a Public Service Interpreter. Beginning with a general introduction to interpreting, it will go on to focus more in depth on the wide range of issues and chal...
Racism in the United States 1785-1915 Part 1
Between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries a powerful new idea emerged in the West: race. According to this ideology, human beings could be divided into biological groups - 'races' - determining both moral character and intellectual ability...
Radical England: Literature and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century
The seventeenth century was a time of extreme change and political instability in England. In 1649, after years of civil war, Charles I, the King of England, was beheaded on Whitehall in front of a crowd of thousands. England, overnight, became a republic...
Reading Histories
The culmination of your history degree at Southampton will be the completion of your final year independent research dissertation (HIST3021 for History programmes or HIST3210 for Ancient History programmes). In this module you will learn how to apply the ...
Sex, Soap Operas and Female Dissidents: Representations of Women in the Hispanic World
This course will introduce you to a range of examples of Spanish American (e.g. Puerto Rican, Argentinean, and Mexican [American]) and Iberian cultural production from the period of the 1980s to the 21st century, in order to provide a sense of the variet...
Society and Politics in Victorian Britain Part 1
In this module we will examine the principal themes of the political and social history of Britain during the Victorian era (c.1830-1900). We will investigate the development of new forms of political participation and examine the ways that men and women...
Whereas in part 1 of the module you focused on metropolitan Britain, in part 2 we turn our attention to Britain's role in the wider world, placing a particular emphasis on Britain's relationship with empire. The module will explore how the British empire...
Sociophonetic Project Module
This final year module builds on the theoretical grounding students gained in LING 2011 Variation and Change in English and the instrumental analysis techniques from LING 2008 Sound and Voice. In Sociophonetic Project Module, students will put the theory ...
The Crisis of Austria-Hungary Part 1
In this module you will study how and why domestic crises struck the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria-Hungary) in the two decades before the First World War, and what the potential consequences were for the Empire's long-term sustainability. The module particul...
Building on Part I, which focused on perceived dynastic/national/social loyalties at home before the First World War, Part 2 imposes on that framework firstly a study of Habsburg foreign policy from c.1895 to 1914 and secondly a study of the empire in the...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 Part 2: Legacy
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was an international exhibition which took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1st May to 11th October 1851. It was arguably the greatest of a series of international 'expositions' run throughout ...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 Part one: Art, Industry and the making of a Nation
The Hundred Years War: 1337-1453, Part 1
The conflict that raged between the Plantagenet and the Valois kings from 1337 to 1453, and spread over the whole of Occidental Europe, turned out to be the longest military struggle in history. In this module, you will explore how the Hundred Years War s...
Translation: Theory and Practice
Translation plays a major role in the exchange and circulation of practical information and culture production. This means that even if they do not enter the translation profession, in a society that is increasingly global, Modern Linguists are frequently...
Writing in a Second Language
The unit will take you through the process, the product and the place of writing. Process will deal primarily with modelling cognitive operations, analysis of composing strategies, and individual differences and changes in processes over time. Product wil...
Course structure Learning and assessment
The learning activities for this course include the following:
individual and group projects
independent learning (studying on your own)
Course time
How you'll spend your course time:
Your scheduled learning, teaching and independent study for year 1:
Scheduled learning & teaching
How we'll assess you
composition portfolios
Your assessment breakdown
Practical exam
You'll be supported by a personal academic tutor and have access to a senior tutor.
Christopher Prior is the course leader.
Modules Careers
The knowledge, skills and confidence you gain on your year abroad will make you stand out to potential employers.
You'll graduate with transferable skills, including the ability to:
assess evidence and arguments
present your opinions clearly and concisely
work independently and as part of a group
manage your time and workload effectively
Many of our graduates have gone on to work in museum and cultural heritage jobs. Others have found jobs as:
archivists
Careers services at Southampton
We are a top 20 UK university for employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019). Our Careers and Employability Service will support you throughout your time as a student and for up to 5 years after graduation. This support includes:
work experience schemes
CV and interview skills and workshops
careers fairs attended by top employers
a wealth of volunteering opportunities
study abroad and summer school opportunities
We have a vibrant entrepreneurship culture and our dedicated start-up supporter, Futureworlds, is open to every student.
Learning and assessment Fees, costs and funding
Fees, costs and funding
Fees for a year's study:
UK students pay £9,250.
EU and international students pay £19,300.
What your fees pay for
Your tuition fees pay for the full cost of tuition and all examinations.
Find out how to:
pay your tuition fees
calculate your student finances
Accommodation and living costs, such as travel and food, are not included in your tuition fees. Explore:
accommodation costs
budgeting advice
Bursaries, scholarships and other funding
If you're a UK or EU student and your household income is under £25,000 a year, you may be able to get a University of Southampton bursary to help with your living costs. Find out about bursaries and other funding we offer at Southampton.
If you're a care leaver or estranged from your parents, you may be able to get a specific bursary.
Get in touch for advice about student money matters.
You may be able to get a scholarship or grant that's linked to your chosen subject area.
We award scholarships and grants for travel, academic excellence, or to students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Support during your course
The Student Services Centre offers support and advice on money to students. You may be able to access our Student Support fund and other sources of financial support during your course.
Funding for EU and international students
Find out about funding you could get as an international student.
Careers How to apply
When you apply use:
UCAS course code: RV41
UCAS institution code: S27
Apply for 2022 entry
What happens after you apply?
We will assess your application on the strength of your:
predicted grades
academic reference
We aim to respond to you within 2 to 6 weeks with a decision about your application.
We treat and select everyone in line with our Equality and Diversity Statement.
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