Anyone got an offer for Hispanic Studies at Nottingham?

yeah i have an offer from nottingham for hispanic studiesl .
it was my first offer..
ooh im going to an open day on the 18th as well! ive never been but hopefully ill like it!

i studied management with spanish at nottingham, so i do have an experience with the hispanic department. i was not too impressed with the lengua side of things to be honest. we only had 2 hours of spansh lengua a week - 1 for grammar and 1 for oral classes. not enough to learn a language at all.

however the rest of the spanish modules were great. some of the lecturers are amazing.

How long ago did you study there? I have to admit, the teaching/ structure for lengua was rather awful, as I experienced it in my 1st and 2nd years, but they have now completely reorganised the system and have a new language convenor who is absolutely excellent.
The Hispanics depts, or SPLAS as it is now known, is joint best in the country, along with Manchester - I'm talking in terms of research quality and calibre of staff here, which imo is what matters. For Golden Age Lit, women's writing, or anything to do with Cuba we have the best academics in the country, by far.
Is there anything else you want to know alexandramarycatherine? I'd be happy to give you any info you need.

Hi - I'm not Hispanic Studies but same department - Beginners' Portuguese and Spanish. Reassuring to hear good stuff about the department, I'd also heard it was joint best in the country.
And I'm another person going to the open day on the 18th... Not been before...but I like the look of it all so far and everyone I know who went there LOVED it.

Aww thankyou for the info, you're so nice
I'm having a slight dilemma uni-wise, I just really don't know where I want to go for ages I was dead set on Bristol, but now Nottingham and Birmingham look really good as well!
what would you say the ratio of language learning hours to Hispanic culture hours was for you? Did it change in your fourth year?? Also, are there lots of lectures in Spanish/Portuguese??

Apart from lengua and língua portugesa, all the modules are taught in English - for lit/film modules the material will be studied in the original language, but you will write your essays/ exams in English too - basically the idea behind this is that students simply would not be able to cope with the culture module lectures being given in Spanish/Portu if they are only at A level standard, as they will be in the beginning.
I'm a joint honours student, so I take less culture modules, but the language classes for Spanish and Portuguese are usually 2 hours a week each for seminars (there is now also a extra grammar lecture of an hour a week for Spanish), and each culture module is also 2 hours a week. This didn't change for me in fourth year, but I now have 2 hour long seminars for the culture modules (don't have lectures anymore) instead of two 1 hour sessions.

In terms of where you want to go - both Bristol and Nottingham are great unis, I personally don't like Birmingham uni but that's just me. I always knew I wanted to go onto postgrad level so the calibre of the department was really important to me, but if you just want to go out and get a job after graduation, either of the unis would stand you in good stead and look good on a CV.
Throughout my course, I have chosen mainly lit modules, because that's my primary interest, and all the teachers I've had are excellent. I'm also now studying advanced translation and again, the course content and teaching can't be faulted.
Do you know Portuguese is compulsory for the 1st year but you can then drop it? I studied it for 2 years, did very well in the first but then got bored of it in the 2nd, so I chose not to carry on with it in my final year. You should also get some free credits in first year to choose subsid modules - I did philosophy and psychology, but you can study virtually anything (except another a beginner's language).

Hey there guys, new to these forums.
I've applied to Leeds, Notts, Manchester Uni of, Swansea and Cardiff to do hispanic studies or some variation of that.
Had offers back from all cept leeds who rejected me, meh.
Thinking of going to the Nottingham open day on the 18th of March, is anyone else going?
Also, what were people offered for HS at Notts?
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Hey, erm ive received offers from bristol, kings, ucl and notts for hispanic studies, and want a combination of lit/politics/history and film in my degree..
notts seem to have a goo combination..however i am not too sure about the other unis ..
Any help?

Also, how did everyone find the Nottingham open day?