Latin American Studies

Description

BA Latin American Studies is run in collaboration with our Departments of History, Sociology, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, and Language and Linguistics, and School of Philosophy and Art History, so offers you an attractive choice of options. Each component challenges you with a variety of material in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Your first-year module on Latin America consists of a broad survey of the area from the pre-Conquest to the present day and each component is taught by an expert in that discipline. You spend a period of study in Latin America, with most of our students going to Mexico, Columbia, Brazil or Argentina. Some of our students spend their second semester gaining practical work experience as interns, although there are a limited number of internships and what is available is subject to change.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our courses are flexibility and choice. In your first year, you usually take four or five modules that include pre-requisite(s) for your course but, in many cases, mean you can try subjects you have not come across before. If you are taking a humanities or social science, then you have the greatest choice, as most of our first-year modules do not assume any specialist knowledge.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available. We offer a range of optional modules in your second- and final-years and most courses allow you to undertake a final-year project, an individual piece of research on a topic that interests you.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

• Introduction to Contemporary Latin America
• Introduction to Latin American History; and two from:
• Spanish to Portuguese Conversion, Advanced Portuguese, Intensive Initial Spanish or Advanced Spanish

Year 2

• Spanish and/or Portuguese language option;
• Doing Research for a BA Dissertation;
• one Latin American half-option;
• one Latin American option in art history, politics, history, literature or sociology; and
• one Latin American or non-Latin American option

Year 3

Year abroad

Year 4

• Spanish and/or Portuguese language option;
• Final-year Dissertation;
• one Latin American option from the same list of departments as in the second year; and
• one Latin American or non-Latin American option.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

• A-levels: ABB-BBB
• GCSE English: C
• IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).
• Spanish can be started from scratch. If Portuguese is taken as the major language, you must achieve an A-level in either Portuguese or Spanish (or equivalent).

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at the University of Essex please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/funding.