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 | 70 |
Length of course | 4 academic years |
Language(s) of instruction | Catalan 100% |
Admission grade |
5,000 (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 |
Specializations | Yes |
Objectives and competences
Objectives
The UB bachelor's degree in Catalan trains professionals and researchers highly qualified in the field of Catalan language and literature. More specifically, this degree develops expert knowledge, competences and skills in:
- The structure of the Catalan language and its historical and current varieties.
- Catalan literature: texts, authors and major currents.
- Regulations and standard language and theoretical bases.
- Professional applications of language and literature.
- History of the Catalan language and its literature.
- The sociolinguistic situation of the Catalan language and intervention methods.
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
- 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).
Access and admission
Applicant profile and access requirements
Recommended applicant profile
It is interesting and recommended that you have:
- 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 language and literature.
- Knowledge of Catalan language and literature, notions of other languages and basic IT tools.
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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Catalan Literature: Fifteenth-Century Literary Values | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Literature: Romanticism and the Renaixença | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Renaissance Literature | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
History of Ancient and Medieval Catalan | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Standard Catalan | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Analysis and Production of Texts in Catalan | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Applied Linguistics in Catalan | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Literature: Realism and Naturalism | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Literature: Textual Criticism | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
History of Modern and Contemporary Catalan | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Subject | Language | Type | Credits |
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Bernat Metge and Fourteenth-Century Literature | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Literature in the Baroque Period and the Age of Enlightenment | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Phonology | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Sociolinguistics | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Syntax | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Lexicography and Semantics | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Modernism | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Morphology | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Noucentisme and the Avant-Garde | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
The Origins of Catalan Literature: the Troubadours, Llull and the Chronicles | 2nd semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Subject | Language | Type | Credits |
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Catalan Dialectology | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Literature: Classic Poetics | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Literature: Contemporary Poetics | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Catalan Pragmatics | 1st semester | Compulsory | 6 |
Final Project | 2nd semester | Compulsory final project | 6 |
Pathways and specializations
Specialization in Catalan LiteratureSpecialization in Catalan
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 ?
The bachelor's degree in Catalan is the natural entrance to a range of specializations with sustained demand in the labour market:
- Teaching Catalan language and literature in compulsory secondary education (ESO) and upper secondary school education.
- Publishing (Review and assessment of originals, etc.).
- Teaching Catalan as a second language and as a foreign language for adults.
- Language consultancy in audiovisual, spoken and written media, in language services and companies in the legal sector.
- Language promotion and language support.
- Lexicography, onomastics and terminology.
- Literary heritage management.
- Coordination of language, interculturalism and social cohesion.
- Consultancy in the field and discourse analysis and spoken and written communication.
Graduates from the degree in Catalan are also valued in areas such as cultural industries, public administration, translation and language technologies.
Data from the university system in Catalonia
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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