Romance Languages degree
BA Romance Languages Q990 - 4 years
Aberystwyth Romance Languages degree
This Romance Languages degree scheme, unique to Aberystwyth, is designed to allow the combined study of up to three Romance Languages, with the option to choose either one or two at a beginners’ level. As a student on the Aberyswyth Romance Languages degree, you will be encouraged to find and explore comparisons between the languages, and to reflect on the relationships between different languages of the same family. It is particularly suited to students with linguistic rather than literary interests. A core module in Romance Linguistics is an integral part of the Romance Languages degree scheme.
Romance Languages: degree structure
Year 1
In Year 1 of your Romance Languages degree, you study two or three of the Romance Languages: French, Spanish or Italian. Modules are offered at both Beginnmers and Advanced levels in all three languages: students may take one or two languages at Advanced level and one at Beginners Module.
Years 2+4
The core of your second year is the compulsory module in Romance Linguistics, in which you study the linguistic relationship between the Romance Languages, their common features and aspects of difference. This module also helps you to place each of the languages in its wider cultural context. Further option modules offer you the opportunity to study aspects of French, Spanish or Italian culture in greater depth, with an excellent range of modules covering, for example, the language of modern business and current affairs or the history of art and culture.
Year 3
As a student on this Romance Languages degree, you will probably spend your year abroad in at least two different countries, living in the culture of two of the languages in which you are specialising.