Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies: The University of Manchester

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies MA (Pathway of MA European Languages & Cultures)

Course description

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, which received the highest rating of 6*A in the 2001 Research assessment Exercise, offers a wide range of postgraduate teaching and supervision at MA and PhD level.

The MA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies pathway is a modular programme, with a free choice of MA course units from those offered within Spanish and Portuguese. This pathway comprises the prescribed core course units in Research Methods (30 credits), a dissertation (60 credits) and three or more optional course units (to a total of 90 credits).

Module details

The MA comprises:

• Research Methods I and II (30 credits)
• Optional course units (90 credits)
• a dissertation (60 credits)

Students following the SPLAS pathway must take at least 30 credits of crossdisciplinary course units, normally Critical Concepts I and Critical Concepts II.

Optional course units typically include:

• Woman at the Crossroads: Sor Juana and Nueva España
• The Medieval Saint: Iberia, 600-1500
• 'In and Out of Africa': Portuguese Post/colonial Writing
• Portuguese Women's Writing pre and post Revolution
• African Women's Writing in Portuguese
• Issues and Approaches in Transcultural Studies: Society, Culture and Postcoloniality
• Spanish as a Pluricentric Language
• Nations and Nationalisms in Europe
• Spain since the end of the Franco Dictatorship
• Key Concepts in Modern European History
• Border Crossings: Comparative Cultures of Diaspora

Entry requirements

Academic entry qualification overview: The normal requirement for admission to the MA is an Upper Second class Honours degree, or higher, or its overseas equivalent, in a relevant subject, usually the language(s) to be studied.

English language: Students whose first language is not English require an overall IELTS score of 7.0 with 7.0 in the writing component or TOEFL 600 (paper-based test), 250 (computer-based test) or 100 (internet-based test).