Literary Theory and Comparative Literature - G1011 - Studies portal

Basic information

Type	Bachelor's degrees
Faculty or school	Faculty of Philology and Communication
Branch of knowledge	Arts and Humanities
Mode of delivery	face-to-face
Credits	240
Number of places available	100
Length of course	4 academic years
Language(s) of instruction	Catalan 58,9%, Spanish 41,1%
Admission grade	7.964 (July 2022, start of process, via official entrance examinations/vocational training)
Approximate price per credit	17,69 €
Compulsory placements	No
Coordinator	MARIA PILAR PEREA SABATER
Coordination	Annalisa Mirizio
Course details	Indicators

Objectives and competences

Objectives

Provide a solid training in theoretical and practical aspects of literature from a universal and comparative perspective.
Develop competences and skills related to literary theory and criticism, such as a reflective and speculative attitude, the acquisition of methods of literary analysis and the use of genre theory, hermeneutics, the poetic-rhetorical tradition and the methodology of comparative literature.
Provide the basis for literary research.

Competences

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

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 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.

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

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

Type	ECTS
Basic training	60
Compulsory	144
Optional	30
Compulsory placements	0
Compulsory final project	6
TOTAL	240

List of subjects

FIRST YEAR

Subject	Language	Type	Credits
Catalan I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Dutch I	1st semester	Basic training	6
English I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Basque	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to French	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Galician	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Greek I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Italian	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Modern Greek	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Polish	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Portuguese	1st semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Russian	1st semester	Basic training	6
Latin I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Literature	1st semester	Basic training	6
Modern Arabic I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Modern Hebrew I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Preliminary German	1st semester	Basic training	6
Prescriptive Spanish Grammar	1st semester	Basic training	6
Romanian		Basic training	6
Romanian Language	1st semester	Basic training	6
Swedish I	1st semester	Basic training	6
Works of World Literature	1st semester	Basic training	6
History of Aesthetic Ideas	2nd semester	Basic training	6
History of the Book and of Reading Practice	2nd semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Linguistics	2nd semester	Basic training	6
Introduction to Literary Theory	2nd semester	Basic training	6
Literary and Artistic Trends in the West	2nd semester	Basic training	6

SECOND YEAR

Subject	Language	Type	Credits
Classical Literature	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Comparative Medieval Literature	1st semester	Compulsory	6
History of Literary Thought and Criticism: from its Origins to the Nineteenth Century	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Introduction to Comparative Literature	1st semester	Compulsory	6
The Renaissance, the Baroque and the Enlightenment	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Avant-Garde Literature and Other Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Trends	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Literature and Film	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Romanticism, Realism and Symbolism	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
The Lyric: Forms and Motifs	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Theatre: Text and Performance	2nd semester	Compulsory	6

THIRD YEAR

Subject	Language	Type	Credits
Literary Themes and Motifs	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Methods in Contemporary Literary Theory: from Russian Formalism to Structuralism	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Postmodern Literary Creation	1st semester	Compulsory	6
The Novel: Forms and Thought	1st semester	Compulsory	6
First-Person Texts	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Literature and Cultural Criticism	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Literature and History	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Methods in Contemporary Literary Theory: Poststructuralist Approaches	2nd semester	Compulsory	6

FOURTH YEAR

Subject	Language	Type	Credits
Feminist Literary Criticism and Gender Studies	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Literary Hermeneutics	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Literature and Arts	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Reception and Recreation of Literary Models	1st semester	Compulsory	6
Final Project	2nd semester	Compulsory final project	6
Literature and Philosophy	2nd semester	Compulsory	6
Practical Classes in Comparative Literature	2nd semester	Compulsory	6

OPTIONAL YEAR

Subject	Language	Type	Credits
Basque Literature	2nd semester	Optional	6
Bible and Tradition in Western Culture	2nd semester	Optional	6
Brazilian Literature	2nd semester	Optional	6
Catalan Literature: Classic Poetics	1st semester	Optional	6
Cervantes and the Poetics of the Novel	1st semester	Optional	6
Classical Arabic Literature	2nd semester	Optional	6
Classical Tradition	1st semester	Optional	6
Contemporary Russian Narrative	1st semester	Optional	6
Dutch Cultures	2nd semester	Optional	6
Fantasy, Humour and Subversion: from Castelao to Manuel Rivas	2nd semester	Optional	6
Great Polish Literary Figures of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century	1st semester	Optional	6
Institutional or Company Placement	1st semester 2nd semester	Optional	6
Introduction to Latin Rhetoric and Style	1st semester	Optional	6
Literature and the Holocaust	2nd semester	Optional	6
Modern Greek Literature	2nd semester	Optional	6
Psychoanalysis and Italian Literature	1st semester	Optional	6
Scandinavian Culture and Civilization	2nd semester	Optional	6
The Bible and Tradition in Western Culture	2nd semester	Optional	6
The French Folk Tale	2nd semester	Optional	6
The Postcolonial English-Speaking World	1st semester	Optional	6
The Publishing Sector in the Twenty-First Century	1st semester	Optional	6
The Troubadours and their European Reception	1st semester	Optional	6
Twentieth-Century Hispanic American Literature	2nd semester	Optional	6

Pathways and specializations

Literary Studies
Check the planning of the different pathways of the degree

Previous years

Teaching staff

List of spring and autum teaching staff at teaching on a current course

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 ?

Secondary and higher education.
Research in literature.
Publishing, including publisher reading, correction, writing, editing, the press, production, sales, and distribution.
Cultural mass media: literary journalism, citicism and review, cultural commentary in the press, and radio and television.
Cultural management, including organization of cultural events in the public and private sector.
Literary creation, including professional practice in the fields of fiction, drama, film and creative writing teaching.
Bookselling.
Public administration.