Modern Language and Literature

The scientific foundation in modern language, literature and culture that is required for professional practice in a broad range of related disciplines in today's plurilingual and multicultural society.
Skills in two different language areas: proficiency in the use of an instrumental language and a solid knowledge base in the language, literature and culture of each area.

General competences

• Communicative ability (the ability to understand and express oneself orally and in writing in Catalan, Spanish, and a third language, mastering specialised language/the ability to search, use, disseminate, and integrate information).
• Mastery of new information and communication technologies and information management skills.
• Ethical commitment (critical and self-critical capacity/ability to demonstrate attitudes consistent with ethical and deontological conceptions).
• Teamwork (the ability to collaborate with fellow colleagues and contribute to a common project/ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary and multicultural teams).

Specific competences

• Analyse and interpret the relationships between linguistics, literature, and culture.
• Analyse and apply the grammatical concepts necessary for reading and understanding texts in a modern language.
• Write texts in the studied languages appropriate to a specific register, orthographically and grammatically correct, employing specific terminology of the field of study.
• Express oneself orally in the studied languages with phonetic accuracy, fluency, and clarity, using well-structured discourse appropriate to a specific register, grammatically correct, and employing specific terminology of each field of study.