Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Study Guide 2025/26
What you can study
Bristol is renowned for the global approach it takes to the languages, histories, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This approach enables us to explore the incredible diversity of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries and how they shape the world today.
You will find units on:
- film, media, and digital humanities
- women, gender, and sexuality
- literature and poetry
- history and thought
Pre-requisites
Many HISP units have language requirements. For units taught in English translation, see the Cultural Studies guide.
At UK universities, students specialise from their first year and rarely take units outside their degree subject. This means that:
- Year 1 units are normally suitable for all students.
- Year 2 units require some university study in the discipline, and some require knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese.
- Year 3 units require a strong background in the discipline, and some require knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Year 1
Pre-requisites: units with a * require a degree of proficiency in Spanish. Your background in the language will be checked before registration on the unit.
Teaching Block 1
Teaching Block 2
Year 2
Pre-requisites: units with a * require a degree of proficiency in Spanish. Your background in the language will be checked before registration on the unit.
Teaching Block 1
- Barcelona: Culture and Representations - HISP20117
- Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People’s History - HISP20119
Teaching Block 2
Year 3
Pre-requisites: units with a * require a degree of proficiency in Spanish. Your background in the language will be checked before registration on the unit.
Teaching Block 1
- Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World - HISP30098 *
- Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds - HISP30070 *
- Hispanic Sociolinguistics - HISP30056 *
- Indigenous Histories in Latin America - HISP30106 *
- Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance - HISP30092
- The Theatre of Federico García Lorca - HISP30029 *
Teaching Block 2
- Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil in 18th-19th Centuries - HISP30058 *
- Intermedia Encounters in 20th Century American Art - HISP30110
- Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change - MODL30015
- Sports and Societies in South America - HISP30108 *
- The Afterlives of Empire in Spanish Written and Visual Cultures - HISP30109 *
- The Novels of Carmen Laforet - HISP31026 *
- The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 - HISP30076 *
Application queries
Contact the Centre for Study Abroad inbound team if you have any queries about the application process for the study abroad programmes:
Phone: +44 117 39 40207
Email: cfsa-inbound@bristol.ac.uk
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