Introduction
Basic information
Type | Bachelor's degrees |
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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 | 160 |
Length of course | 4 academic years |
Language(s) of instruction | English 100% |
Admission grade |
6.078 (July 2024, 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 |
Objectives and competences
Objectives
- The skills to work in different international and multicultural environments.
- Analytical, critical and summary skills, and the abilities to put the knowledge learnt into practice and evaluate emerging approaches to professional issues.
- English language competence and contrastive analysis of English.
- The identifying features of different linguistic, literary and cultural models in English, and their professional applications.
- The basic principles of applied linguistics in different English language fields.
- The features of English language literary texts in different genres, periods of history and cultural contexts.
- Professional respect for individual and collective diversity.
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
- Demonstrate proficiency in oral and written English at a level compatible with the professional world.
- Demonstrate the ability to linguistically describe the English language.
- Demonstrate knowledge of writers from different eras, literary genres, and cultural environments of English-speaking countries.
- Demonstrate knowledge of literary criticism and intellectual paradigms in the anglophone context.
Access and admission
Applicant profile and access requirements
Recommended applicant profile
What you will need:
- Solid language skills (general reading and writing skills, and listening and speaking in an academic context).
- The ability to work towards individual and group 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 language and literature.
- 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 IT tools at a user level.
- Knowledge of English (level B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, or its equivalent).
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 |
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Basic training | 60 |
Compulsory | 144 |
Optional | 30 |
Compulsory placements | 0 |
Compulsory final project | 6 |
TOTAL | 240 |
List of subjects
Subject | Language | Type | Credits |
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Applied Linguistics of English | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
English Lexicology and Morphology | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
English Phonetics and Phonology II | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
History and Cultures of the United States | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century English Literature | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Descriptive Grammar I: English | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Postcolonial History and Culture | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Teaching English as a Foreign Language I | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century English Literature | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Subject | Language | Type | Credits |
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Acquisition of English as a Second Language I | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
British Poetry | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Descriptive Grammar II: English | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Shakespearean Drama | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Contemporary English Drama | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Descriptive Gammar III: English | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
English Semantics | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Subject | Language | Type | Credits |
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English Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
History of English I | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Contemporary English Fiction | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Final Project | 2nd semester | Compulsory final project | 6 |
History of English II | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Translation from and into English I | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Subject | Language | Type | Credits |
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Acquisition of English as a Second Language II | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
Cognitive Linguistics in English | 2nd semester | Optional | 6 |
Contemporary British Theatre: New Tendencies | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
English Fiction and Film | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
English Syntax | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
Institutional or Company Placement |
1st semester
2nd semester |
Optional | 6 |
Irish Literature and Cultures | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
Literature and Conflict | 2nd semester | Optional | 6 |
New Trends in American Literature | 2nd semester | Optional | 6 |
Spoken English | 2nd semester | Optional | 6 |
Teaching English as a Foreign Language II | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
The Postcolonial English-Speaking World | 1st semester | Optional | 6 |
Translation from and into English II | 2nd semester | Optional | 6 |
Pathways and specializations
English StudiesCheck 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 ?
- Higher education and research in language and literature.
- Non-university education.
- Public administration.
- Publishing and cultural management.
- Language assessment and planning.
- Translation.
- The mass media.
- Cultural consultancy.
- Professional sectors related to the practice of creative writing and art and literary criticism.
- Language mediation in intercultural, business and interprofessional contexts.
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Contact us
Faculty of Philology and Communication
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 - 08007 Barcelona
Secretary: 934 035 584 | 83
fil-secretaria@ub.edu
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