University of Barcelona

Medieval Cultures

Recommended applicant profile and admission requirements

Recommended applicant profile

The course is primarily intended for graduates in philology, philosophy, history, history of art, anthropology and the humanities who are interested in developing specialist knowledge of the Middle Ages. Prospective students must have a keen interest in acquiring a cross-disciplinary understanding of the period, as this is one of the underlying aims of the degree.

Admission requirements

In accordance with Article 16 of Royal Decree 1393/29 October 2007, students must hold one of the following qualifications to access university master's degree courses:
  • An official Spanish degree.
  • A degree issued by a higher education institution within the European Higher Education Area framework that authorizes the holder to access university master's degree courses in the country of issue.
  • A qualification from outside the framework of the European Higher Education Area. In this case, the qualification should be recognized as equivalent to an official Spanish degree. If it is not recognized, the University of Barcelona shall verify that it corresponds to a level of education that is equivalent to official Spanish degrees and that it authorizes the holder to access university master's degree courses in the country of issue. Admission shall not, in any case, imply that prior qualifications have been recognized as equivalent to a Spanish master's degree and does not confer recognition for any purposes other than that of admission to the master's degree course.

Specific requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or pre-EHEA degree in History, History of Art, Philosophy, Romance Languages, Classics, Catalan Philology, Hispanic Studies, Literary Studies, Linguistics, Humanities, Archeology or Anthropology.

  • Pre-EHEA degree in English, French, Galician, Portuguese, Hebrew Studies, Semitic Languages, or Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Archeology or Anthropology.

  • Bachelor's degree in English Studies, Modern Languages and Literature, or Arabic and Hebrew Studies.

  • Undergraduate degree not listed above but with similar content and objectives to the master's degree course.
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