Spanish and Latin American Studies (GD-ARTS_SPEC_29)

Overview

The Spanish and Latin American studies program at The University of Melbourne offers language options at all levels together with a variety of cultural studies subjects in fields as diverse as literature, cinema, popular culture, food studies and gender studies in Spain and Latin America.

The Spanish and Latin American studies program will provide you with a wide range of opportunities to develop your Spanish language skills while increasing your awareness of Spanish and Latin American cultures through authentic written, spoken and audiovisual materials. You will also cultivate your intercultural competency interacting with the Spanish-speaking communities in Australia and abroad.

Our program offers opportunities to undertake independent research projects with innovative scholars working in areas such as Hispanic food studies, Spanish and Latin American cinema, Latin American popular culture studies and translation. Beyond sound disciplinary skills students will be able to develop and enhance critical workplace skills, such as problem-solving, teamwork, clear communication, self-evaluation, mentoring, information literacy, professionalism and digital competency. You will be able to demonstrate your skills through a range of meaningful tasks developed along innovative assessment methods such as object-based learning, curation, process writing and project work in a variety of media (video, podcasts, etc.). A selection of your assessment tasks is housed in an ePortfolio, a valuable platform to showcase workplace skills, language level and intercultural competency achieved during your studies.

The Spanish and Latin American studies program has agreements with universities in Spain and Latin America. They allow students to undertake exchange and study abroad options as part of their Spanish studies.

Spanish language core subjects are organised in a progressive sequence from Spanish 1 to 7. The program also offers a range of Spanish electives in a variety of delivery modes, including our overseas intensives such as Tales of Muslim Spain, and the online winter intensive Realities and Fictions of Argentina. Our innovative elective Languages at Work offers students an additional opportunity to engage with industry collaborators in target-language communities in Australia.

Students may enter at any point, subject to placement testing and/or prerequisites, and normally progress through the sequence in consecutive order. Accelerated progression and mid-year entry are also possible in special cases with the permission of the course convenor. However, mid-year entry is only possible into Spanish 2, 4 and 6. Students also have the opportunity to fast track their studies opting for the summer Intensive Spanish 3 & 4 subject.

Intended learning outcomes

Students who complete this specialisation in Spanish and Latin American Studies will:

Interpret academic and everyday communication across a number of contexts, situations and genres in the target language
Understand the use of Spanish in real-life and be aware of the contributions of Spanish speakers to the economic, intellectual, cultural and social affairs of the Spanish-speaking world and beyond
Acquire the intellectual sophistication needed to appreciate historical, cultural and anthropological differences within the Spanish-speaking communities from Spain and Latin America
Understand and reflect on the lingo-cultural acquisition process both in English and Spanish, as autonomous, reflective and self-directed learners with academic-level skills
Appreciate and respect diversity and background differences by critically evaluating Spanish-speaking cultures, including the viewpoint of the target culture, and based on intercultural competency skills
Be able to confidently interact in intellectually sophisticated spoken and written communication with both native and non-native speakers in the target language about historical and contemporary Spanish-speaking communities
Be able to speak effectively in public about social, historical and cultural issues in Spain, Latin America and beyond
Engage critically and constructively in intercultural dialogue as a bicultural and bilingual person and as a global citizen
Develop critical workplace skills such as problem-solving, teamwork, clear communication, self and peer evaluation, mentoring, information literacy, professionalism and digital competency.

Last updated: 27 August 2024

Structure

100 credit points

Duration: The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation is only available part-time and normally takes 2 - 3 years to complete. This specialisation is not available to international students.

There are three standard entry points:

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, or adequate placement test results or equivalent.
Spanish 5 Entry Point: for students who have obtained VCE Spanish, adequate placement test results, or approved equivalent.

The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

Spanish 1 Entry Point

eight compulsory subjects (100 points)

Spanish 3 Entry Point

seven compulsory subjects (87.5 points)
Level 2 elective subjects (12.5 points)

Spanish 5 Entry Point

five compulsory subjects (62.5 points)
Level 2 elective subjects (25 points)
Level 3 elective subjects (12.5 points)

Total 100 points

Please note the following: 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

Subject Options

Spanish 1 Entry Point Compulsory Subjects

8 compulsory subjects (100 points)

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
SPAN10001	Spanish 1	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN10002	Spanish 2	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN20002	Spanish 3	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN20003	Spanish 4	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN30014	Spanish 5	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN30015	Spanish 6	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG40003	Seminar in Languages 1	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG40004	Seminar in Languages 2	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Spanish 3 Entry Point Compulsory Subjects

7 compulsory subjects (87.5 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
SPAN20018	Spanish 5	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN20019	Spanish 6	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN30016	Spanish 7	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG40003	Seminar in Languages 1	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG40004	Seminar in Languages 2	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Spanish 5 Entry Point Compulsory Subjects

5 compulsory subjects (62.5 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
SPAN20022	Spanish 7	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG40003	Seminar in Languages 1	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG40004	Seminar in Languages 2	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Elective Subjects

Spanish 3 Entry Point

Level 2 Spanish elective subject (12.5 points)

Spanish 5 Entry Point 5

Level 2 elective subjects (25 points)
Level 3 elective subject (12.5 points)

Please note: Only one of the elective subjects for Spanish 5 Entry Point can be a European Studies/other elective subject

Spanish Elective Subjects

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
SPAN20016	Rock, Pop & Resistance	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN20024	Cooking up the Nation	Not available in 2024	12.5
SPAN20025	Realities and Fictions of Argentina	Winter Term (Online)	12.5
SPAN20026	Tales of Muslim Spain	Not available in 2024	12.5
SPAN30001	Gender in Hispanic Cultures	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN30012	Rock, Pop & Resistance	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN30019	Cooking up the Nation	Not available in 2024	12.5
SPAN30020	Realities and Fictions of Argentina	Winter Term (Online)	12.5
SPAN30021	Exploring Latin America	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SPAN30022	Tales of Muslim Spain	Not available in 2024	12.5
SPAN30023	Spanish and Latin American Cinema	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
LANG30001	Languages at Work	Not available in 2024	12.5

European Studies Elective Subjects

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
EURO20001	Language and Society in Europe	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO20002	European Modernism	Not available in 2024	12.5
EURO20003	Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe	Not available in 2024	12.5
EURO20005	Screening Europe: Image and Identity	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO30001	Language and Society in Europe	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO30002	Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe	Not available in 2024	12.5
EURO30003	European Modernism	Not available in 2024	12.5
EURO30004	Screening Europe: Image and Identity	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ARTS30002	Introduction to Language Translation	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO20007	A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive	February (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO30006	A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive	February (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO20009	Wines of the World	July (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
EURO30008	Wines of the World	July (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll