Spanish and Portuguese - University of Manchester

- The course gives students a thorough grounding in the languages and cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. - Alongside their study of Spanish language, students explore a range of options in visual culture (including film), area-specific history, linguistics and literature. - Students study both European and Brazilian Portuguese alongside a range of options in areas such as contemporary culture, colonialism, literature and cinema from Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique and Angola. - Year 3 is spent abroad, split between Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries (on university exchange, work placement, or teaching as an English-language assistant). **Special Features** - The breadth of expertise among staff across Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies means an unusually rich and broad curriculum. - Our language courses are taught by native speakers with specific training. As a result, both your written and your oral work are enhanced by constant exposure to accurate, idiomatic, and documented language. - You will be taught by both Portuguese and Brazilian language teachers and by Spanish speakers from Latin America and Spain. - You study both languages equally throughout the course. - Courses on culture and history are taught by staff who are all published authors in their field. - There are outstanding resources for students, including world leading collections on Lusophone Africa within the library and access to thousands of films and texts on Latin America, Portugal and Spain.