Hispanic Studies

Language

Your tutors will provide you with an essential guide that will be followed throughout the academic year, which will enable you to develop different skills including grammar; translation; oral and aural & reading and writing comprehension.

There is no need to purchase a paper dictionary as you will be working with online dictionaries, translation tools and educational apps such as DRAE, Wordreference, Linguee, collaborative writing, etc. If you think that you would feel more comfortable with a paper dictionary, please have a word with your tutors at the beginning of the term and they will provide you with some suggestions.

You will also work with Grammar and reading books. You are not expected to do any language preparation, however, if you wish to refresh your knowledge or familiarise yourself with the language during the summer, key texts are listed below:

• Practising Spanish Grammar, by Angela Howkins, Christopher Pountain, and Teresa de Carlos
• Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide, by Juan Kattan-Ibarra and Christopher Pountain

As part of HP101 you will read one of these two graphic novels:

• Either Sole Otero, Naftalina (Salamandra Graphic, 2020)
• Or Quan Zhou Wu,Gazpacho agridulce. Una autobiografía chino-andaluza (Bilbao: Astiberri, 2015)

There is no need to purchase these texts, as they will be available to you via Warwick's University Library.

For more information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/hispanicmodules/hp101ps/

 

Literature and Culture modules

There is no required reading to complete before the term begins, but if you would like to get a flavour of the topics we will study during the year, this is a list of selected readings from our first-year modules, which aims to provide you with some general sources that you will be studying during your first year at Warwick. You can also find more information on the module webpages (below), and you may like to begin your own research into some of these topics and figures online.

HP103: Language, Text and Identity in the Hispanic World

For more information:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/hispanicmodules/hp103ps/

HP104: Icons and Representations of the Hispanic World

For more information:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/hispanicmodules/hp104ps/