General Licence Degree in Spanish LLCE (Language and Civilization)

Course objectives

General Licence in Spanish of the Nîmes University Centre for Study and Research permit to prepare for teaching professions (primary school teacher, secondary school teacher) or to continue studies in a sphanish master's degree or cultural studies.

The Spanish department within the Nîmes multi-disciplinary approach aims to offer students wide reaching and detailed understanding of Spanish and Latin American culture from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing a double opportunity for careers orientation towards both teaching and cultural activities (e.g. tourism).

Throughout the three years of the Licence degree, strict parity is observed between tuition on Spain and Latin America.

Course specificity

Nîmes University Centre offers a dual discipline approach to the Spanish Licence entitled:

• Spanish - minor English, or
• Spanish - minor History, or
• Spanish - minor Modern Letters.

The choice of the minor subject is made in the first year and is applied throughout the three year course. The minor subject offers not only a wider cultural approach but also a balanced training approach which is extremely useful when presenting competitive entry examinations (IUFM, Capes and Agrégation). This polyvalence is unique in the region and is also very much appreciated in professional sectors such as tourism, translation or journalism.

Organisation of studies

Each of the 6 semesters of the spanish degree contain 2 tuition units (UE) of spanish of 78 hours et one tuition unit of 78 hours of minor ( english, history or modern letters) and a methodolgy tuition and an optional portuguese tuition.

In 1st year, the aim is to acquire linguistics bases

• Lecture of grammar
• Tutorials translation into and from French (contemporary spanish and latin-american texts).

In depth understanding of the country. Lecture of geography and oral comprehension understand the cultural reality.

The same importance is given to studying literature and civilisation (contemporary, Spanish and Latin American).

Importance is placed on acquiring the necessary tools for explaining and commenting texts.       

The 2nd year offers a deeper approach:

Fundamental tuition in grammar and linguistics. History of the language is studied as an initial approach to the history of grammar.

In depth study of complete works enables practical application of the methodology of analysis and dissertation.

This work focuses on the civilisation and literature from colonisation to independence of Latin America from the Middle Ages to the end of the Spanish golden century.

Civilisation is also systematically referred to through the study of artistic productions specific to each country and each of the periods studied, from Medieval art to contemporary art and including Baroque painting, pre-Columbian architecture or Latin American musical culture.

In 3rd year : 

Civilisation and literature tuition, supported by intensive practice of the language, are specifically aimed at preparing future teachers. The development of translation skills is pursued and refined through work on various literary genres and specific language elements.

Licence students are plunged into the creative atmosphere of a myriad of literary works and provided with the techniques to prepare for the various competitive examinations for teacher training courses. With reference to Latin American and Spanish civilisation, the point of view studied is mainly political but economic and social questions also hold a central place in the debates.                                  

The large place made over, throughout the year, to studying artistic works in relation and reference to historical periods and events and literary production is aimed at providing students with an in-depth and broad understanding of the Spanish and Latin American cultural heritage. Study of Spanish and Latin American film productions is based on a specific method of detailed analysis of each sequence, establishing related vocabulary and debating on the notions of representation, identity and stereotypes with reference to different cinema approaches and languages.

Training plan Spanish (Language and civilisation) Degree