Anthropology & Spanish
Students studying Anthropology and Spanish gain an understanding of socio-cultural differences and similarities and how they arise, are transmitted and develop. You acquire knowledge and understanding of the inter-relationship between texts and contexts, a familiarity with debates surrounding culture and identity, both individual and communal, and skills in synthesising and developing ideas and arguments from diverse literary and other contemporary sources. By studying Anthropology and Spanish, students can also analyse a wide variety of literary, political, social, cultural and linguistic aspects of Spanish-speaking countries across the globe.
| Award Name | Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 |
|---|---|
| NFQ Classification | |
| Awarding Body | Queens University Belfast |
| NFQ Level |
| Award Name | NFQ Classification | Awarding Body | NFQ Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 | Queens University Belfast |
Duration
4 years (Full Time)
Entry Requirements
Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3 including Higher Level grade H3 in Spanish
Careers / Further progression
Employment after the Course
Graduates go on to work in a very wide range of sectors, they are particularly in demand in careers requiring a high level of communication and presentation skills, as well as strong critical and analytical thinking.
Career pathways typically lead to employment in:
• User Experience
• Consultancy
• Civil Service
• Development, NGO work, International Policy, Public Sector
• Journalism, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work
• Arts Administration, Creative Industries, Media, Performance, Heritage, Museums, Tourism
• Market Research
• Public and Private Sector related to: Religious Negotiation, Multiculturalism/Diversity
• Teaching in schools
• Academic Teaching and Research
• Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work, Journalism
Employment Links
Consultations
We regularly consult and develop links with a large number of employers including, for example, Santander and the British Council who provide sponsorship for our year abroad placements as well as Rolls Royce, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Moy Park / MARFRIG who are members of the employer liaison panel for the course.
Further information
Start date: September 2024
Deadlines for on-time applications
2024 entry application deadlines
For courses starting in 2024 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.
16 October 2023 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.
31 January 2024 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.
Some course providers require additional admissions tests to be taken alongside the UCAS application, and these may have a deadline. Find out more about these tests at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/admissions-tests
Check course information in the search tool to see which deadline applies to you at the application weblink below.
Apply as soon as possible: Student funding arrangements mean that as offers are made and places fill up, some courses may only have vacancies for students from certain locations. It’s therefore really important that you apply for your chosen courses by the appropriate deadlines mentioned above, as not all courses will have places for all students.
All applications received after 30 June are entered into Clearing - find out more about Clearing at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/clearing-and-results-day/what-clearing
Students can start to learn Spanish as beginners if they do not have an A level in Spanish. All students follow core modules in Spanish language that enable them to develop skills in written and spoken Spanish and translation from Spanish to English. Alongside the core language modules student study students are introduced to the literatures, histories, cultures and language of the Spanish-speaking world. We are proud to offer students the opportunity to learn more about Spain and Latin America and to study different periods from early modern (Golden Age) Spain and colonial Latin America to twentieth-first century Spain and contemporary Latin America.
The degree takes four years to complete (which includes the study abroad year in a Spanish speaking country, during which students can complete anthropological fieldwork).
Global Opportunities
After stage 2, you will spend an academic year working or studying in a Spanish-speaking country. Students have the possibility of acquiring valuable professional experience by teaching in a school, undertaking a work placement, or doing voluntary work; they may also elect to study at a Spanish university.
In addition to the benefits for oral competence, the residence provides a unique opportunity for immersion in Spanish and Spanish/Hispanic culture and to conduct anthropological fieldwork, which helps form your final year dissertation in Anthropology.
Undergraduate anthropology students, as part of their training, have carried out ethnographic field research around the world. Projects have focused on orphanages in Kenya; AIDS in southern Africa, education in Ghana; dance in India, NGOs in Guatemala, music in China, marriage in Japan, backpacking in Europe, and whale-watching in Hawaii.
Anthropology at Queen’s is constructed around four innovative, engaged themes:
What Makes Us Human?
Conflict, Peacebuilding and Identity
Arts, Creativity and Music
Morality, Religion and Cognition
View the different stages of this programme under Course Content on the course webpage via link above.
The information below is intended as an example only, featuring module details for the current year of study (2023/24). Modules are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to future changes – revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year.
Core Modules
Spanish 1 (40 credits)
Being Human: Culture and Society (20 credits)
Spanish for Beginners (40 credits)
Optional Modules
'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (20 credits)
Introduction to Iberian Studies (20 credits)
Introduction to Latin American Studies (20 credits)
Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts (20 credits)
A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
Year 2
Core Modules
Key Debates in Anthropology (20 credits)
Spanish 2 (40 credits)
Optional Modules
Understanding 20th Century Mexico through Art, Film and Literature (20 credits)
Protecting Paradise (20 credits)
Anthropology of Media (20 credits)
Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
The Fantastic in Latin America (20 credits)
Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
The Northern Ireland Conflict and paths to peace (20 credits)
Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
Human Morality (20 credits)
Afterlives: Rogues and Mystics of the Spanish Golden Age (20 credits)
Configurations of the Brazilian City (20 credits)
Year 3
Core Modules
Working and Studying Abroad (20 credits)
International Placement: Languages Year Abroad (100 credits)
Year 4
Core Modules
Spanish 3 (40 credits)
Optional Modules
The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
2666 by Roberto Bolaño (20 credits)
Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective (20 credits)
The Spanish Enlightenment (20 credits)
Rewriting Love in the Renaissance (20 credits)
Imperfect Heroines: Spanish Fiction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (20 credits)
Afterlives of the Empire: Decolonisation in the Portuguese-speaking World (20 credits)
Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
Admissions
Tel: 028 9097 3838
Fax: 028 9097 5151
Email address: admissions@qub.ac.uk