This course is taught by lecturers who conduct internationally respected research into the languages and cultures of Spain, including Catalonia and South America, your degree gives you the opportunity to acquire both high-level language skills and a thorough understanding of Spanish cultures and societies within a global context. Our degree places emphasis on practical language work and communication skills, with opportunities at every stage to study aspects of the culture, thought, society and institutions of Spanish-speaking countries. Besides your core language and culture courses you can choose from a broad range of specialist Spanish courses and cultural, historical and political courses promoting comparative understanding of countries within Europe and beyond. Spending your third year either studying or working in a Spanish-speaking country is compulsory. This is an invaluable opportunity to put into practice all you have learnt and greatly increases your fluency in the language and knowledge of Hispanic culture, while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. The language and communication skills gained on this course enable graduates to find work in a wide variety of areas such as journalism, advertising, teaching, librarianship to accountancy and IT. As well as language and subject related skills, a degree in Languages, develops rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills that can be utilised across a variety of careers. In order to help you understand how these skills can be used in the workplace we provide a number of workshops throughout your studies at Lancaster. Many Spanish Studies graduates continue their studies at a higher level. Lancaster has an excellent reputation for postgraduate research. A professional qualification can lead to a career in a specific area such as interpreting.