English Studies

• 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.

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.