This is a second-year Spanish language module consolidating your proficiency at level B2 and exploring level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference...

This is a second-year Spanish language module consolidating your proficiency at level B2 and exploring level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In the Grammar and Communicative Skills lectures, you will expand your vocabulary and learn to use increasingly more sophisticated language in a variety of contexts and registers, as well as idioms, expressions and colloquialisms. Different varieties of Spanish will be explored. The Translation classes will help you enhance your translation competences already acquired in the previous year in order to tackle a wider variety of texts in both English into Spanish and vice versa. You will improve your knowledge of the Hispanic culture(s) across the globe, especially in the Additional Contents and Skills classes, which will prepare you for the Year Abroad.

This module explores gender and how it plays a role in everyday lives across the life-course. The module will take students through the various academic...

This module explores gender and how it plays a role in everyday lives across the life-course. The module will take students through the various academic conceptualisations of gender and sex – what these terms mean – and the ways in which gender cross-cuts with other social and cultural identities, such as ‘race’, ethnicity, age, sexuality, class, and religion. During the module, students will explore the relationship between gender and social structures (including sociology itself), and on relationships and experiences. They will learn to challenge ‘common sense’ understandings of gender using theoretical frameworks and drawing on empirical examples from across the world. The module will cover the following themes: Sex/gender debates; Feminist histories; Femininities and masculinities; Intersectionality and gender; Gendered bodies; Gender and religion;; Transgender and intersex; Gender and (neo) colonialism; Gender and parenting and contemporary digital activism around gender inequality.