Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature

Final project

The Master's Final Project is the culmination of the Master's studies; therefore, it must reflect the training received during the program and the research capacity achieved by the student. You must therefore already be enrolled in all the subjects, or have already passed the entire teaching period, to enroll and submit the Research Work.

The research framework and possible research lines correspond to the compulsory and optional subjects taken by the student. Therefore, the research will have to be directed by a Master's professor.

The Final Master's Thesis must demonstrate the student's ability to formulate a critical question, original in its approach, and developed in accordance with the state of the matter and the most important precedents. It will be necessary to expose and debate the adducable bibliography to support the research, argue and document the critical, historical and interpretive hypotheses, and present conclusions highlighting the contributions made in this research and its possibilities for a future Doctoral Thesis.

At the time of choosing the topic to investigate, the student will propose the direction of the work to the professor he considers most appropriate. Exceptionally, co-directions with professors from other master's degrees or universities will be allowed, as long as they are PhDs, and with prior information to the coordinator. The co-director of the Master's will be responsible for research for academic and administrative purposes.

TFM Guide for the master's in Literature Theory and Comparative Literature

Formal presentation

Evaluation protocol

On the announced dates, the Research Work must be deposited in the Faculty Secretariat, duly signed (authorized) by the tutor. No work will be accepted without the director's signature: if submitted without due permission from the director, it will be considered "Not Submitted" for all purposes.

Four copies will be given (three in paper format and one in digital format): one for each member of the panel, and a fourth (in digital format, PDF format) for the Master's archive.

The tutor will deliver the report to the Coordinator, which will be attached to the copies intended for the evaluation act. Once these procedures have been completed, the call for the public exhibition session of the Master's Final Theses will be published.

The assessment boards will be made up of Master's professors and, eventually, doctoral professors who are not Master's professors or professors from other Universities. One or more Tribunals may be set up, according to the number of works registered in each call, grouping them according to related lines of research. Tutors will not be part of the tribunals of their own investigators.

The evaluation of the Final Master's Thesis corresponds to the court, which will also have received the tutor's report. TFM rubrics

The evaluation act will consist of the student presenting the work in front of the court, which will then be able to make any comments or questions it deems appropriate, to which the student will respond. The final mark will be derived both from the Research Work and from its presentation before the court, and the tutor's report will also be taken into account, as the first evaluative element.

The grades for the Final Master's Theses will be communicated to each student at the end of the public session.

The highest possible mark in the evaluation act is excellent. The eventual Honors Matriculations will be decided by the Master's Academic Committee, advised by the presidents of the tribunals.

Delivery of works

The works, duly bound and signed by the teacher who directed them, must be delivered to the Secretary of the Department of Hispanic Philology, Literary Theory and Communication, in the following calendar:

Call January 2025

Delivery: Monday 20 January (deadline)

Presentation: Friday, January 31.

Regulations

Projects should be carried out as research assignments:

General regulatory rules for University Master's theses of the University of Barcelona (in catalan), approved by the Academic Commission of the Governing Council of 8 June 2011 and by the Governing Council of 19 July 2011.
Regulatory regulations for the final university master’s theses of the Faculty of Philology and Communication (in catalan) of the University of Barcelona, approved by the Commission for official master’s degrees and own postgraduates on May 7, 2024 and by the Academic Commission of the Governing Council on June 26 of 2024.