Junior Freshman (JF)
The first-year course is designed primarily to establish and consolidate competence in understanding and using the Spanish language. The program also comprises a course on Introduction to Modern Spain and one on Introduction to Spanish and Spanish-American Literature.
Spanish Language
Non-beginners are expected to attend five language classes each week, including one in Spoken Spanish and one in Listening Comprehension. Beginners are expected to attend six language classes each week, including one in Spoken Spanish and one in Listening Comprehension. Beginners will need (inside and outside contact hours) a special commitment to language study and preparation; by the time of the examinations in May it is expected that they will have reached the same level as non-beginners.
Prescribed texts
- Juan Kattán-Ibarra & Christopher J. Pountain. Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2003), 2nd edition (non-beginners)
- M. Ángeles Álvarez Martínez. Sueña 1 (Libro del Alumno). (Anaya, 2007 edition) (beginners)
- a copy of a good course bilingual dictionary
Introduction to Modern Spain (Dr Bayó Belenguer)
All Junior Freshmen (TSM - Two Subject Moderatorship & ES - European Studies) are expected to attend one lecture each week on the course Introduction to Modern Spain.
Prescribed texts
- Martin Blinkhorn, Democracy and Civil War in Spain, 1931-1939 (Routledge)
- John Hooper, The New Spaniards (Penguin)
Introduction to Spanish & Spanish American Literature (Dr O'Hagan, Dr Cosgrove, Dr Bayó Belenguer)
Junior Freshmen (TSM - Two Subject Moderatorship) also attend one seminar each week on the course Spanish & Spanish American Literature.
Prescribed texts
- Selection of poems (Departmental booklet)
- Jean Franco (ed.), Spanish Short Stories (Penguin)
- F. García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba (ed. Ramsden, Manchester U.P.)
- G. García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada
- Ramón J. Sender, Requiem por un campesino español (ed. Patricia MacDermott, Manchester U.P.)