The MA in Spanish is an individualised programme of study that can be completed in two years by a full-time student.
Significant emphasis is placed on active participation in class.
The programme is 120 ECTS and is organised as two years of full-time study.
The programme is made up of:
The programme aims to provide students with:
Completing an MA in Spanish confers the right to apply for a doctoral programme in Spanish.
The BA-degree in Spanish, with a grade average of at least 7.25 (First class) and a 10-credit final thesis gives access to the second cycle of higher education.
120 ECTS have to be completed for the qualification.
Further information on supporting documents can be found here
Check below to see how the programme is structured.
This programme does not offer specialisations.
MA-thesis in Spanish.
Individual project.
Seminar C. Lexicografía
Objetivo
En este seminario se pretende ofrecer una introducción a la lexicografía teórica (metalexicografía) como base para estudiar, valorar y usar los diccionarios del español tanto en formato impreso como electrónico. También se presenta el diccionario como herramienta pedagógica.
This course concerns the diverse connections between culture and language, as seen from the perspective of cultural history, social sciences and linguistics. Ancient and modern world languages will be introduced and their origins, influence and effects investigated. Written and spoken language will be discussed: what sorts of things are written, why and how? Rules and alternate perspectives on the nature of langauge will be considered, raising the question of how we understand man with respect to thought and language.
The course offers a general introduction to Spanish Linguistics: Spanish phonetics and phonology, Spanish morphology and word formation, semantics, etc.
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En este curso se presentan los conceptos básicos de la lingüística general y se estudian los componentes de la estructura de la lengua española: el estudio de los sonidos (fonética/fonología), la organización interna de las palabras (morfología), las relaciones de las palabras en la oración (la sintaxis), el conjunto de palabras de que dispone el español (lexicología) y el significado de las palabras (semántica). Asimismo, se abordan los conceptos de variación lingüística y adquisición de la lengua materna y lengua extranjera.
Special Theme: Contemporaneity: Social Contexts in Recent Visual Texts
This course will offer an introduction to a range of films from Latin America while examining cinema as a format embedded in the visual culture of the continent. From a sociological standpoint and in light of various strands of influential theoretical models, this course will consider the centrality of movies and television programs as cultural expressions of contemporaneity. This course embraces forms other than feature films or short films, images from media other than scenes from a film, and audience response platforms other than academic articles or reviews from critics. The emphasis is placed on visual texts released in the last decade. The focal points are cross-border / global production and reception, digitization of cinema and recent approaches to cultural identity (identity branding migratory displacement, films as artefacts of contestation, new understanding of gender and ethnicity, memory, neoliberalism and markets, mediatized narcoculture, social inclusion, core-periphery relations, new video cultures and affect). The class will be mainly taught in English
This course will explore the history of Spanish cinema in twentieth century Spain, with particular emphasis on the post-Franco period. (The Cine-Club Hispano will be operated during the semester).
MA-thesis in Spanish.
MA-seminar: literature
The European intellectual tradition is characterized by the strong links between academia and society. Many of the most important European thinkers of the 19th and 20th Centuries worked outside of the universities – and many of those who did pursue an ordinary academic career also were public commentators frequently intervening in political discussion of the day and in some cases gaining considerable influence. In this course we present a selection of European thinkers who have been important both as scholars and as public intellectuals. We read and discuss samples of their work and look at critical discussion of their ideas. We also reflect on the time and place of the "European" – to what extent their work is quinessentially Eurocentric and to what extent awareness of cultural contingency emerges.
An overview of the history and developments of the Spanish language.
This course will focus on the history of translation and methods available in the field of translation. Students will try their hand at the different methods of translation working with technical- periodical- as well as literary texts.
A survey of literature and history of the Mexico-USA boarder regions. Works by Mexican and Mexico-American (Chicano) authors read.
This course will explore literature from the colonial period, with particular emphasis on the role of the conquest gaze as a promoting factor in the image making for the new world. Geographic, literary, and ethnic issues will be examined.
An introductory course in Latin American Literature. Literary works include poems, short stories and novels.
An introductory course in Latin American Literature. Literary works include poems, short stories and novels.
Individual project.
This class will focus on film and television adaptations, with scripts derived from short stories, canonical works, popular and pulp fiction, as well as graphic novels and comics.
In this course we will focus on various literary works and corresponding adaptation theories relating to film adaptations and current television series. Key issues and concepts in this course will be taught in relation to Modernism/Postmodernism and Origin/Intertextual play in Adaptation Theory and Cinema semiotics.
Course requirement:
Apart from the obligatory course text Adaptations and Appropriation by Julie Sanders, we will read significant articles on adaptation as well as selected short stories (provided by the tutor) that have undergone the transition process and been adapted to into films. Students are encouraged to participate in discussions in class.
MA-thesis in Spanish.
Seminar C. Lexicografía
Objetivo
En este seminario se pretende ofrecer una introducción a la lexicografía teórica (metalexicografía) como base para estudiar, valorar y usar los diccionarios del español tanto en formato impreso como electrónico. También se presenta el diccionario como herramienta pedagógica.
This course concerns the diverse connections between culture and language, as seen from the perspective of cultural history, social sciences and linguistics. Ancient and modern world languages will be introduced and their origins, influence and effects investigated. Written and spoken language will be discussed: what sorts of things are written, why and how? Rules and alternate perspectives on the nature of langauge will be considered, raising the question of how we understand man with respect to thought and language.
The course offers a general introduction to Spanish Linguistics: Spanish phonetics and phonology, Spanish morphology and word formation, semantics, etc.
**
En este curso se presentan los conceptos básicos de la lingüística general y se estudian los componentes de la estructura de la lengua española: el estudio de los sonidos (fonética/fonología), la organización interna de las palabras (morfología), las relaciones de las palabras en la oración (la sintaxis), el conjunto de palabras de que dispone el español (lexicología) y el significado de las palabras (semántica). Asimismo, se abordan los conceptos de variación lingüística y adquisición de la lengua materna y lengua extranjera.
Special Theme: Contemporaneity: Social Contexts in Recent Visual Texts
This course will offer an introduction to a range of films from Latin America while examining cinema as a format embedded in the visual culture of the continent. From a sociological standpoint and in light of various strands of influential theoretical models, this course will consider the centrality of movies and television programs as cultural expressions of contemporaneity. This course embraces forms other than feature films or short films, images from media other than scenes from a film, and audience response platforms other than academic articles or reviews from critics. The emphasis is placed on visual texts released in the last decade. The focal points are cross-border / global production and reception, digitization of cinema and recent approaches to cultural identity (identity branding migratory displacement, films as artefacts of contestation, new understanding of gender and ethnicity, memory, neoliberalism and markets, mediatized narcoculture, social inclusion, core-periphery relations, new video cultures and affect). The class will be mainly taught in English
This course will explore the history of Spanish cinema in twentieth century Spain, with particular emphasis on the post-Franco period. (The Cine-Club Hispano will be operated during the semester).
MA-thesis in Spanish.
The European intellectual tradition is characterized by the strong links between academia and society. Many of the most important European thinkers of the 19th and 20th Centuries worked outside of the universities – and many of those who did pursue an ordinary academic career also were public commentators frequently intervening in political discussion of the day and in some cases gaining considerable influence. In this course we present a selection of European thinkers who have been important both as scholars and as public intellectuals. We read and discuss samples of their work and look at critical discussion of their ideas. We also reflect on the time and place of the "European" – to what extent their work is quinessentially Eurocentric and to what extent awareness of cultural contingency emerges.
An overview of the history and developments of the Spanish language.
This course will focus on the history of translation and methods available in the field of translation. Students will try their hand at the different methods of translation working with technical- periodical- as well as literary texts.
A survey of literature and history of the Mexico-USA boarder regions. Works by Mexican and Mexico-American (Chicano) authors read.
This course will explore literature from the colonial period, with particular emphasis on the role of the conquest gaze as a promoting factor in the image making for the new world. Geographic, literary, and ethnic issues will be examined.
An introductory course in Latin American Literature. Literary works include poems, short stories and novels.
An introductory course in Latin American Literature. Literary works include poems, short stories and novels.
This class will focus on film and television adaptations, with scripts derived from short stories, canonical works, popular and pulp fiction, as well as graphic novels and comics.
In this course we will focus on various literary works and corresponding adaptation theories relating to film adaptations and current television series. Key issues and concepts in this course will be taught in relation to Modernism/Postmodernism and Origin/Intertextual play in Adaptation Theory and Cinema semiotics.
Course requirement:
Apart from the obligatory course text Adaptations and Appropriation by Julie Sanders, we will read significant articles on adaptation as well as selected short stories (provided by the tutor) that have undergone the transition process and been adapted to into films. Students are encouraged to participate in discussions in class.
The timetable shown below is for the current academic year and is FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Changes may occur for the autumn semester in August and September and for the spring semester in December and January. You will find your final timetable in Ugla when the studies start. Note! This timetable is not suitable for planning your work schedule if you are a part-time employee.
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