Comments about BA Archaeology and Hispanic Studies - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire
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Objectives
Studying a modern language alongside archaeology provides you with opportunities to gain a greater insight into the historical and cultural development of your chosen country, and to develop specific and highly valuable language skills.
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Practical experience
Your knowledge and skills are enhanced by spending the third year of your four-year degree in an Hispanic country
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Entry requirements
-GCE/VCE A Levels - BBC -BTEC National Diploma - 3 Distinctions and 3 Merits -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BC+BB -Scottish Highers - AABB -Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB -International Baccalaureate - 32 points -Core Requirements - Normally requires B in A Level Spanish or, for beginners, in another modern language.
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Academic title
Archaeology and Hispanic Studies BA
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Course description
This is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
Typical First Year Modules
Module/Unit
-European Classical Civilisations
-World Civilisations
-Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture I
-Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture II
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Research Skills in Archaeology
-Thinking through Archaeology
-Advanced Spanish Language I
-Advanced Spanish Language II
-Archaeology and Text
-Archaology of the Graeco-Roman World
-Early Historic Europe
-Early Prehistoric Europe
-From Households to Empires
-Later Historic Europe
-Later Prehistoric Europe
-Reconstructing Ancient Landscapes
-Contemporary Latin America (Cuba)
-Contemporary Latin America (Mexico)
-Cuban Culture and the Revolution
-Further Portuguese: Language and Culture I
-Further Portuguese: Language and Culture II
-Hispanic Film and Human Rights
-Intensive Catalan I
-Intensive Catalan II
-Intensive Portuguese I
-Intensive Portuguese II
-Linguistic Developments in Modern Spain
-Narrative Perspectives on Post-Civil War Spain
-Spanish American 20th-Century Literature I
-Spanish Language in Business Contexts
-The Novels of Benito Perez Galdos
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
Typical Fourth Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Dissertation (Archaeology and Hispanic Studies)
-Advanced Spanish Language III
-Advanced Spanish Language IV
-Archaeology and Texts in the Age of Homer
-Athens, Empire and the Classical Greek World
-Dark Age Britain
-Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
-Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
-Dissertation
-Ethnohistory and Anthropology of Modern Hunter Gatherers
-Funerary Archaeology
-Material Life and Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern World
-Mediterranean Landscapes
-Optical and Geophysical Surveying in Archaeology
-Rome: Capital, Hinterland and Periphery
-Social Transformations in Britain From the 4th to 2nd Millennium BC
-Spanish Language Teaching
-Swords and Sorcery: Northern Europe 1000 BC-AD 500
-Work Place Learning
-Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Contemporary Argentina
-Dissidence and Debate in Early 20th-Century Spain
-Genesis and Genre: From Novel to Play to Screen: Galdos Today
-Interpreting Skills
-Law and Culture in the Hispanic World
-Media Ethics in the Hispanic World
-Modern Peru
-Modern Uruguayan Narrative
-Musical Performance and Hispanic Culture
-Popular Culture and Society in Latin America
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture III
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture IV
-Spain Since 1975
-The Politics and Fiction of Crisis: 1868 - 1898
-Translation Studies
-Visual Culture in Spain and Latin America
-Writing in Exile
