Enhance your Spanish speaking skills while studying ancient societies on the BA Ancient History and Spanish programme at the University of Southampton. Educate yourself on the history and politics of the Hispanic world while developing your skills in this colourful language. This combined BA course is suited for those who wish to specialise in more than one subject. With experience from this Ancient History and Spanish degree, you can choose to progress your education and skills further through postgraduate study. Work towards a teaching profession with a PGCE or seek to educate with a career working in museums.This BA programme enables you to combine the acquisition and consolidation of a high level of proficiency in Spanish with the pursuit of your interests in Ancient History and the ancient world. In Modern Languages you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills and competencies in a wide range of content areas and disciplinary strands which are at the core of languages cultures and societies. It will equip you with a solid understanding of your chosen language and its context of production, history and society and will enable you to critically engage with its cultures. In History you will have the opportunity to study and research to a high level, equipping yourself with specialist knowledge in your chosen areas of study. Studying the ancient world at Southampton offers you the opportunity to learn in an engaging, supportive and highly successful research environment. Southampton’s Faculty of Humanities contains leading experts in a wide range of fields related to the ancient world and its reception (History, Archaeology, ancient and modern languages and literatures, philosophy and film). From ancient Egypt to Minoan civilisation, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the Roman empire, from Roman Britain to the ancient Americas and the Middle East, from ancient philosophy and the biblical world to the rise of Islam, studying Ancient History at Southampton affords you the chance to study topics about which you are already passionate, or to try something entirely new. Whatever you choose, Ancient History at Southampton will enable you to gain invaluable skills and study topics about which both you and staff are passionate.