Program Overview

How much are your views on politics, history, film, and popular culture constrained by the country you live in? Our course offers you the chance to expand that outlook through immersing you in the world’s Hispanic and Lusophone cultures.

You develop your language skills in Spanish and Portuguese, while becoming aware of the culture in Brazil and Portugal. Taking this course will enable you to communicate with more than 500 million speakers of Spanish and Portuguese, and do business in a great number of countries, most importantly the rapidly rising Brazil.

In addition to mastering both Spanish and Portuguese at a high level of proficiency, you gain practical skills in the use of these languages professionally (such as in translating and interpreting), as well as developing a thorough understanding of some of the world’s most vibrant societies. We house the internationally important collection of Latin American art, ESCALA.. Topics may include:

• Translating, Interpreting and Subtitling
• Spanish and Latin American Art, Film and Music
• From the Caves to Modern Graffiti: A Visual History of the Spanish Language
• Brazil in Focus: Business, Culture and Society

We are one of the largest and most prestigious language and linguistics departments in the world, a place where talented students become part of an academic community in which the majority of research is rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, placing us firmly within the top 10 departments in the UK and ranked among the top 150 departments on the planet according to the QS World [University] Rankings [2017] for linguistics.