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Course Description
Lancaster’s joint Spanish Studies and Mathematics degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with the Mathematics and Statistics Department. The Complete University Guide 2017 ranked Spanish Studies 5th and Mathematics 10th in the UK.
Your Spanish Studies programme gives you the opportunity to acquire high-level language skills while gaining a thorough understanding of the country’s historical, cultural, social and political background in a global context. In Maths, you’ll study in-depth mathematical theory and practice and have the option to specialise in pure mathematics or statistics.
Your first year comprises an exploration of the Spanish language and its cultural context, core modules in calculus and probability, and selected modules in topics such as ‘Linear Algebra’ and ‘Discrete Mathematics’. Alongside these, you will study a minor subject of your choice.
Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will study the culture, politics and history of the Spanish-speaking world in more depth, as well as selecting modules which are international in scope and promote a comparative understanding of Europe and beyond. You will combine these with Mathematics modules such as ‘Groups and Rings’ and ‘Real Analysis’.
Spending your third year abroad in a Spanish-speaking country gives you the opportunity to develop your language proficiency while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. You can study at a partner institution or conduct a work placement.
In your final year, you consolidate your Spanish language skills, and study specialist culture and comparative modules, such as ‘Translation as a Cultural Practice’. You will also select Mathematics modules such as ‘Differential Equations’, ‘Combinatorics’, or ‘Geometry of Curves and Surfaces’.
Course Content
Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme to complement your main specialism. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years. For more information about our teaching methods at Lancaster please visit our Teaching and Learning section.
The following courses do not offer modules outside of the subject area due to the structured nature of the programmes: Architecture, Law, Physics, Engineering, Medicine, Sports and Exercise Science, Biochemistry, Biology, Biomedicine and Biomedical Science.
Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, and the University will make every reasonable effort to offer modules as advertised. In some cases changes may be necessary and may result in some combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes and new research.
Year 1
Core
Calculus
Further Calculus
Linear Algebra
Part I Spanish Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
Part I Spanish Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
Probability
Statistics
Optional
Convergence and Continuity
Discrete Mathematics
Geometry and Calculus
Integration and Differentiation
Numbers and Relations
Year 2
Core
Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
Shaping Contemporary Spain and Latin America: Moments and Movements
Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
Spanish Language: Oral Skills (post Beginners/CEFR: B1)
Spanish Language: Written skills (CEFR: B2)
Spanish Language: Written Skills (post Beginners/CEFR: B1)
Optional
Abstract Algebra
Complex Analysis
Computational Mathematics
Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
Linear Algebra II
Probability II
Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
Project Skills
Real Analysis
Society on Screen: The Language of Film
Statistics II
Understanding culture
Year 3
Core
International Placement Year: Intercultural and Academic Reflection
Year 4
Core
Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
Spanish Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
Optional
Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
Differential Equations
Full Unit Dissertation
Game of (Spanish) Thrones: Treachery, War and Exile in Spanish Poetry (13th-20th c.)
Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
Groups and Symmetry
Hilbert Spaces
Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Latin America and Spain on Film: Violence and Masculinities
Linear Systems
Mathematical Education
Metric Spaces
Number Theory
Social movements and committed writing in Mexico since 1968
The Prosecution of 'Otherness' in Europe: Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition (14th -17th C)
Translation as a Cultural Practice
Writing in the margins: narrating cross-cultural experience
Course Intakes
| Location | Start Date | Fees | Duration | ||
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Classroom Bailrigg Lancaster Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom |
September, 2025
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UK/EU: |
4 years, Full Time |
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Entry Requirements
A Level AAB including A level Mathematics or Further Mathematics grade A OR ABB including A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics, at least one of which at grade A. See below for language requirements.
Required Subjects In addition to the Mathematics requirements above, A level Spanish, or if this is to be studied from beginners’ level, AS grade B or A level grade B in another foreign language, or GCSE grade A or 7 in a foreign language. Native Spanish speakers will not be accepted onto this scheme.
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.
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