Spanish: The course for you?
The Department will help you to discover or deepen your interest in the Spanish-speaking world, giving you multiple opportunities to choose from a wide variety of courses across the centuries and genres, while helping you to develop your independence as a confident and critical thinker.
Whether a beginner or non-beginner in Spanish, you will very quickly come to feel a valued member of a Department with a rich experience that goes back to 1776, having attracted some of the most distinguished names in Hispanism as teachers, with access to libraries which are among the very best in Ireland and the UK. You will be learning in a Department dedicated to innovative and small-group teaching, with a friendly, committed, and supportive ethos, aided throughout your studies by a wide variety of guest speakers on contemporary topics of interest.?
Our external examiners consistently comment on the very high levels of linguistic and research skills attained by Hispanic Studies students, and you will always have the assurance that you have chosen a four-year degree that will set you on a professional or academic path as a highly qualified specialist in a field of ever-increasing international importance.
Graduate skills and career opportunities
A degree in Spanish opens up many career opportunities in education, journalism, the diplomatic service, business administration, banking, publishing, interpreting, translation, advertising, public relations, digital communication, and the visual media generally, with recent graduates opening up careers in Google, Oracle, Telef?nica, Ryanair, Central Bank of Ireland, Gerson Lerhman Group, Third World Organizations, and the European Union.
A substantial proportion of students engage in further study, particularly masters? courses. Many opportunities exist in several universities, both in the UK and in Ireland, with Trinity?s M.Phil. in Literary Translation and Comparative Literature proving popular. A number of undergraduates have also chosen to pursue M.Litt. and PhD research degrees.
