Bachelor's degree in Romance Languages and Literatures

Introduction

Objectives and competences

Objectives

You will acquire a cross-disciplinary and comparative understanding of Romance languages, complemented by a broad understanding of cultural evolution in the European context.

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

• Be capable of analysing and interpreting Romance languages and literatures from a comparative, diachronic, and synchronic perspective.
• Have theoretical and practical knowledge of two Romance languages and be capable of using them for different purposes (linguistic advice and correction, translation of texts, comprehension and writing of texts, language teaching, and creation of teaching materials).
• To possess knowledge of the history of literature and of the culture of two linguistic domains in order to develop a critical discourse on themes and aspects of these literatures and cultures from multiple methodological approaches.
• To apply the techniques of philological editing of literary and linguistic texts within the Romance language domain.

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

• Ability to interpret and analyse Romance languages and literatures from a synchronous and diachronic comparative perspective.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of two Romance languages in addition to Spanish or Catalan, and the ability to use them for different purposes (education, editing, writing, etc.), orally and in writing.
• Knowledge of the historical evolution of Romance literature and its articulation in literary genres. In-depth knowledge of the history of the literature and culture of two Romance languages. Ability to develop a critical discourse about these literatures and cultures from a variety of methodological perspectives.
• Knowledge of linguistic tools and methods applied to the analysis of Romance languages. 
• Ability to apply philological editing techniques to Romance literary and linguistic texts.

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

• Welcome portal
• Student Support Service (SAE)
• Open days
• Informative sessions

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

List of subjects

Pathways and specializations

Previous years

• Course plans 2022 - 2023
• Course plans 2021 - 2022
• Course plans 2020 - 2021

Teaching staff

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

• Regulations on external placements
• FeinaUB

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

• Secondary education, language teaching, higher education, assistant roles at foreign universities.
• Public and private research and innovation in the fields of linguistics and literature (for universities, research institutes, cultural institutions, etc.).
• Editing: language advisory services, proofreading, correction, revision, etc.
• Cultural management: curation and management of museum and library collections, heritage conservation and promotion, advisory services to foundations and institutions, cultural and institutional policy management, tourism, etc.
• Translation.
• Library science, information science.
• History, culture and language consultancy in advertising, television, theatre and film.
• Cultural mediation and linguistic mediation in international aid.

Access to the labour market

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