BA Italian & Spanish

The BA Italian and Spanish at Cardiff University is a joint honours degree that focusses on the production and consumption of texts, performance, and media in social context. The course allows students to examine these from a cultural, linguistic, and historical viewpoint while delivering key language skills. Graduates emerge with the cultural sensitivity vital for professions in a multicultural society. Course Content: The course offers a balanced curriculum that marries traditional and contemporary modules in literature, cinema, history, and politics. The first two years provide thorough language instruction and access to a wide range of other modules to help you specialize in your area of interest. Native speakers deliver some modules from each language to ensure your progress attains the highest level of accuracy. The third year is spent abroad, enhancing language skills and cultural knowledge, followed by the final year depending on your choices back in Cardiff. Key Modules: Key modules include an Introduction to Linguistics, Modern Italy: Birth of a Nation? to the birth of a republic in 1946, The Spanish Civil War: Texts, Contexts and Memories, Urban Cultures of Modern Brazil, and Federico Fellini's Italy.Future Careers: The course equips students for professional employment across a broad spectrum of careers such as travel and tourism industry, international organizations, teaching, translating and interpreting, diplomatic service, local government and banking and finance.'For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.'