Management and Spanish, BA, University of Leeds

Course content

A Joint Honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each Single Honours course, but you'll take fewer options and discovery modules so you can fit in both subjects.

You'll spend your first year improving your language skills and discovering Spanish and Latin American culture and history, while being introduced to key aspects of management including accounting practices, economics and organisational behaviour. One of our Cornerstone modules will also allow you to draw your two subjects together.

Through your second year you'll continue to build your awareness of issues in management, with core modules focusing on marketing and operations. You'll also choose from optional modules allowing you to study the aspects of each subject that interest you, from corporate social responsibility to Spanish-American literature. But you'll also be building your language skills so you're prepared for the following year, when you'll work or study in a Spanish-speaking country.

Returning to Leeds for your final year, your language skills will be much sharper. You'll keep refining them in your advanced language classes, but you'll also choose from an even wider range of optional modules, including using Spanish in a professional context, diversity management, translation and crime in Latin American culture. You'll undertake a dissertation as a showcase for the skills you've gained.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Year 1

You'll choose from a wide range of optional modules while maintaining a balance across your subjects. Follow the links to the Programme Catalogue for more examples of optional modules and the full course structure.

Compulsory modules

• Entry requirements, fees and applying

  Entry requirements

  A-level: AAB including A in Spanish

  GCSE: Mathematics grade 6/B

  • Career opportunities

    A Joint Honours degree in Management and Spanish is varied and demanding, allowing you to develop a wide range of skills that are very attractive to employers.

    Fluency in a world language is highly valuable in itself and opens doors many language-specific career paths as well as working abroad. But you'll also have a high degree of commercial awareness and transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, analysis and research.

    Spending a year abroad will demonstrate that you're independent, resilient and capable of adapting to new environments, and you'll have organisational skills from managing two different subjects.

    Graduates have gone into careers in areas such as sales, marketing, tourism, management, the civil service, education and journalism. Others have pursued further specialised training or postgraduate study in fields such as translation or interpreting.

    Careers support

    We encourage you to prepare for your career from day one. That's one of the reasons Leeds graduates are so sought after by employers.

    Leeds for Life is our unique approach to helping you make the most of University by supporting your academic and personal development. Find out more at the Leeds for Life website.

    The Careers Centre and staff in your faculty provide a range of help and advice to help you plan your career and make well-informed decisions along the way, even after you graduate. Find out more at the Careers website.

  • Study abroad and work placements

    You'll spend your third year in Spain or another Spanish-speaking country, immersing yourself in local culture and cultivating your language skills.

    We have partnerships with a number of universities in Spain and Latin America where you could study, or you could undertake a work placement. You could even work as a language assistant in a school under the British Council's programme.

    Whatever you choose to do, you'll gain a new insight into a Spanish-speaking society as well as valuable experience of adapting to another culture. If you choose to work during your time there, you'll also return with work experience to increase your appeal to employers. For many of our students, it's the real highlight of their course.

    Read more about Residence Abroad in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

  • Related courses

    Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies BA