History and Spanish

History and Spanish with a year abroad is a degree that connects the past to the present across two of the richest intellectual and cultural traditions available to an undergraduate student. History develops your ability to understand how the world we live in was made, to evaluate evidence, construct arguments and recognise the complexity of human action and motivation over time. Spanish gives you access to the second most widely spoken language in the world and to the literary, political and cultural traditions of Spain and Latin America, unlocking perspectives on history and the contemporary world that monolingual study cannot reach.

At the University of York, this four-year full-time degree includes a sandwich year and a work placement alongside the year abroad, making it one of the most comprehensively structured degrees of this type available.

You will study history across a range of periods and themes, developing your skills in research, source evaluation and historical writing within one of the UK's highly regarded history departments. The Spanish strand builds your linguistic competence to a high professional level while also engaging with Spanish and Latin American literature, culture and society. The year abroad, typically at a Spanish or Latin American university, deepens your linguistic fluency and your understanding of the cultures you are studying, while the sandwich placement gives you professional experience that makes your academic training applicable in working environments.

A typical tariff of around 152 points is expected.

Graduates from history and Spanish degrees pursue careers in journalism, education, international business, diplomacy, the civil service, publishing, heritage management, international development and academic research. The combination of historical analytical skills and Spanish fluency is valued wherever engagement with the Spanish-speaking world and its past is professionally relevant, and many graduates proceed to postgraduate study in history, Hispanic studies, international relations or law.