Art History and Spanish & Latin American Studies (4yrs)

About this programme

Art History and Spanish & Latin American Studies at Aberdeen bring together a thorough grounding in a modern European language and culture with the study of art, architecture, and curation, covering a wide range of media and techniques, at a top-rated university for student satisfaction in Art History. You will gain great specialist and transferable skills to add to your language and open up a range of exciting career options. Spanish & Latin American Studies at Aberdeen has an outstanding reputation, with the highest possible rating of ‘Excellent’ in the last national Teaching Quality Assessment. Aberdeen is one of the most dynamic places to study the Spanish language and the cultural frameworks in countries where it is spoken. We’ll equip you with the skills to communicate in a global language, spoken by 350 million native Spanish speakers in 19 Latin American states, the Spanish Peninsula, and increasingly in the US. As an integral part of your 4-year programme, you will spend half of year three developing your language skills as a teaching assistant or visiting student in a Spanish-speaking country. You’ll also study historical, anthropological, literary and cultural texts, films and visual culture of Spain and the Latin American countries. You’ll complement this with research-led teaching situating European art in its global connectedness and its full complexities, while practical engagement with artworks beyond the classroom will develop and enhance both vocational and transferable skills.