BA/BA INTERNATIONAL (Spanish)

Course overview

The BA International is a four-year programme involving the study of at least one modern Continental language to degree level and a one year period of study in a country in which that language is spoken.

The BA (or ’BA Omnibus’) is a three-year version of the above degree, without the Year Abroad. Students of Spanish normally take the BA International. In exceptional circumstances, students may be allowed to opt for the BA Omnibus, although there is a strict requirement on such students to spend at least three months in Spain or Latin America during the course of their degree programme. Students should consult their Year Coordinator or the Head of Spanish if they wish to be considered for the BA Omnibus.

Objectives

The BA International will enable suitably qualified students to study, in the third year of the programme, both of their academic subjects in a University of a continental European Union country (with the possibility, in the case of Spanish, of studying in a Latin American university). It will offer students the facility to study a Modern Continental language (and its literature) in a country where it is spoken, and also to study approved courses for their second subject through that same language with emphasis on the European/Continental dimension.

Programme duration

The programme is of four years duration.

Programme content

The student must select her/his two degree subjects from the list set out below. At least one subject must be a modern continental language (French, German, Italian or Spanish). The following is the list from which the subjects must be selected:

Archaeology, Economics, English, French, Geography, German, History, Information Technology, Irish, Italian, Legal Science, Mathematical Studies, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociological and Political Studies, Spanish.

Students taking a combination of subjects other than in accordance with the above groupings may also, with the permission of the departments concerned and the approval of the College, be admitted to the programme.

BA/BA International Timetable - First Semester 2012-2013: http://www.nuigalway.ie/spanish/downloads/semester_1_2012_13_ba_timetable_3_sept_2012_final.pdf

Fee payment

During the students' year abroad, fees will be payable in the usual way to NUI, Galway. They will not normally be required to pay fees at the host university.

Courses taken abroad

During their year of study abroad, students are required to enrol for courses and present themselves for the associated examinations. Normally they will be required to attain a total of 45 ECTS units or their equivalent in other approved credit unit systems. The students’ results are considered by a Special Examination Board. Students whose performance is considered unsatisfactory will be required to undertake additional work and to complete it successfully before they may proceed to graduation.

To learn more about the requirements for studying at a university overseas or for participating in a placement overseas, please view this document: Revised Regulations 09.10.

Year descriptions and modules

For information about each year of the course, visit these pages:

• 1st Year
• 2nd Year
• Year Abroad
• Final Year

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