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School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies

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Introduction

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  • Top department in the UK (based on the Times Higher Education's RAE 2008 national rankings)
  • Rated 6*A in the Research Assessment Exercise (2001)
  • 15 members of staff, 2 teaching Fellows, 2 lectors in Spanish and 2 lectors in Brazilian/Portuguese 
  • An experienced team of language teachers and native-speaker language assistants
  • Teaching and research expertise from the Middle Ages to the present day, covering diverse areas of literature, art, music, and film
  • Home to the Manchester office of the Consejería de Educación at the Embassy of Spain in the UK: the local advisor is Ana Alonso
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Information about our courses

Undergraduate courses
Postgraduate taught courses
Postgraduate research programmes 

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Research

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Manchester has established its reputation as one of the UK's leading centres for research in the Assessment exercise (RAE) 2008. In the Times Higher Education rankings based on quality profiles, Manchester's research comes out ahead of all other UK universities. The RAE rated 30% of our research activity to be 'world leading', and a total of 75% as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent.' Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies is part of the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Cultures, one of the leading units of its kind in the country.

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Seminars

SPLAS research seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4pm in Room A115, Samuel Alexander Building. See our seminars page for this semester's speakers.


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Current Students

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