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Spanish and Latin American Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Lara Anderson
Email: laraba@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Structure
75 credit points
A 100-point major and 75-point minor sequence is available. The sequence is as follows for the three most common entry points for the Major and Minor:
- Spanish 1 entry point: for students who have very little or no knowledge of Spanish.
- Spanish 3 entry point: for students who have undertaken two or three years of secondary school Spanish or who have been admitted to the program after proving adequate knowledge of Spanish, adequate placement test results or equivalent.
- Spanish 5 entry point: for students who have obtained VCE Spanish, adequate placement test results, or approved equivalent.
Students will have their appropriate entry point determined by the Spanish and Latin American Program, based on evidence of prior learning and/or results of a placement test as required. Please refer to the following link for further information: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/language-placement-testing
Students completing a major in Spanish and Latin American Studies will usually undertake 25 points at level one, 37.5 points at level two and 37.5 points at level three. Students completing a minor will usually undertake 25 points at level one, 25 points at level two and 25 points at level three.
Subject Options
SPANISH 1 ENTRY POINT:
Spanish 1 entry point - Level 1
Students completing a Spanish major or minor with a Spanish 1 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN10001 | Spanish 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN10002 | Spanish 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Spanish 1 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the Spanish major with a Spanish 1 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (37.5 points). Students completing the Spanish minor are only required to complete Spanish 3 and Spanish 4 (25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN20002 | Spanish 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN20003 | Spanish 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN20001 | Hispanic Cultural Studies | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Spanish 1 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the Spanish major are required to complete the following subjects and one elective (37.5 points). Students completing the Spanish minor are only required to complete Spanish 5 and 6 (25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN30014 | Spanish 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN30015 | Spanish 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPANISH 3 ENTRY POINT:
Spanish 3 entry point - Level 1
Students completing the Spanish major or minor with a Spanish 3 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN10003 | Spanish 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN10004 | Spanish 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Spanish 3 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the Spanish major with a Spanish 3 entry point are required to complete the following subjects and one elective (37.5 points). Students completing the Spanish minor are only required to complete Spanish 5 and Spanish 6 (25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN20018 | Spanish 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN20019 | Spanish 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Spanish 3 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the Spanish major are required to complete the following subject and two electives (37.5 points). Students completing the Spanish minor are to complete the following subject (12.5 points) and one elective (12.5 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN30016 | Spanish 7 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPANISH 5 ENTRY POINT:
Spanish 5 entry point - Level 1
Students completing the Spanish major or minor are required to complete the following subjects (25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN10007 | Spanish 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN10008 | Spanish 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Spanish 5 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the Spanish major are required to complete the following subject (12.5points) and two electives (25 points). Students completing the Spanish minor are only required to complete the following subject and one elective.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN20022 | Spanish 7 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Spanish 5 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the Spanish major are required to complete 3 electives (37.5 points). Students completing the Spanish minor are to complete 2 electives (25 points).
ELECTIVES:
NOTE:
*Students in the Spanish 1 Entry Point major are required to take one Level 3 elective subject (12.5 points). This has to be a Spanish elective. Minor students do not take an elective.
*Students in the Spanish 3 Entry Point major are required to take 3 Spanish elective subjects (one at Level 2 and two at Level 3 - 37.5 points). Minor students are only required to take one Level 3 elective (12.5 points). This has to be a Spanish elective subject.
*Students in the Spanish 5 Entry Point major are required to take 5 elective subjects (two at Level 2 and three at Level 3 - 62.5 points). They can take one European Studies / Other elective subjects (12.5 points). Minor students are only required to take 3 Spanish elective subjects (one at Level 2 and two at Level 3 - 37.5 points).
Spanish Electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN20016 | Rock, Pop & Resistance | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN30012 | Rock, Pop & Resistance | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN30021 | Exploring Latin America | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN20017 | Don Quijote Against the Universe | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN30013 | Don Quijote Against the Universe | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN30001 | Gender in Hispanic Cultures | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
SPAN20024 | Cooking up the Nation | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
SPAN30019 | Cooking up the Nation | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
SPAN30017 | Hispanic Film Today | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
SPAN20025 | Realities and Fictions in Argentina | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
SPAN30020 | Realities and Fictions in Argentina | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
European Studies and other electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
EURO20007 | A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO30006 | A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO20006 | Europe: Making and Breaking of Nations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO30005 | Europe: Making and Breaking of Nations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO20002 | European Modernism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO30003 | European Modernism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EURO20003 | Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO30002 | Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO20005 | Screening Europe: Image and Identity | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO30004 | Screening Europe: Image and Identity | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO20001 | Language and Society in Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
EURO30001 | Language and Society in Europe | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
Links
http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/Last updated: 30 January 2024