Introduction
Basic information
| Type | Bachelor's degrees |
|---|---|
| Faculty or school | Faculty of Philology and Communication |
| Branch of knowledge |
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| Mode of delivery | face-to-face |
| Credits | 240 |
| Number of places available | 100 |
| Length of course | 4 academic years |
| Language(s) of instruction | Catalan 29%, Spanish 6%, Other languages 65% |
| Admission grade |
5,000 (July 2023, start of process, via official entrance examinations/vocational training)
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| Approximate price per credit | 17,69 € |
| Compulsory placements | No |
| Coordinator | MARIA PILAR PEREA SABATER |
| Coordination | |
| Course details | Indicators |
| Specializations | Yes |
Objectives and competences
Objectives
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.
Competences
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.
Access and admission
Applicant profile and access requirements
Recommended applicant profile
- Solid language skills (general reading and writing skills, and listening and speaking in an academic context).
- The ability to work towards goals.
- Critical and reasoning skills, the ability to relate concepts and extrapolate from these, and summary and analytical skills.
- Memory, reading culture and personal interest in intellectual development.
- Interest in learning about languages and their literary legacy.
- Knowledge of the language and literature in which you wish to specialize, of other languages that will be related to the study of these and of the basic IT tools that are used.
Access requirements and conditions
Admission for students with studies completed outside Spain.
Applicants holding higher educational qualifications from a university outside Spain should consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications to find out about specific admission requirements.
Pre-enrolment
Students that have studied abroad and who wish to study at the University of Barcelona may be admitted to EHEA bachelor's degree courses. Procedures for gaining admission will depend on the qualifications held by each applicant.
For further information about admission, consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications.
Enrolment
As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online via the Món UB portal. To find out the date and time you have been assigned, check the specific information for your course. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned.
Academic information
- Documents required for enrolment
- Procedure to formalize enrolment
- After enrolment
- Grants and financial aid
Welcome
Support and guidance
Pre-enrolment information and events
Course curriculum
Subjects and course plans
Distribution of credits
| Type | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Basic training | 60 |
| Compulsory | 144 |
| Optional | 30 |
| Compulsory placements | 0 |
| Compulsory final project | 6 |
| TOTAL | 240 |
List of subjects
Pathways and specializations
Menció en Dues LlengüesSpecialization in German
Specialization in Italian
Check the planning of the different pathways of the degree
Previous years
Placements
Placements are supervised by tutors and subject to assessment.They are therefore included in the academic record. There is also an option to complete non-curricular placements of up to 500 hours, which can be extended to 900 hours. For both curricular and non-curricular placements, an educational cooperation agreement is signed between the UB and the company, institution or other organization at which the placement will be carried out.
Institutional information
Career opportunities
What can you work on ?
- Education.
- Text editing, including of the revision and correction of linguistic, literary and cultural features of given texts as these characterize two different language codes or areas.
- Planning and assessment in language and literature.
- Publishing.
- Literary criticism.
- Translation.
- Language and cultural mediation.
- Cultural mediation and management.
- Adult lifelong learning.
Access to the labour market
Data from the university system in CataloniaContact us
Faculty of Philology and Communication
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 - 08007 Barcelona
Secretary: 934 035 584 | 83
fil-secretaria@ub.edu