Bachelor's degree in Arab and Hebrew Studies

Introduction

Objectives and competences

Objectives

• Language competence in Arabic and Hebrew, writing skills in Aramaic and knowledge of a third language with the use of language, literary and IT methods to consolidate a professional profile suitable for a broad range of specialist areas.
• The principles of critical analysis in seminal literary texts of the languages studied.
• The principles of Arab, Islamic and Jewish culture and an understanding of the main institutions representing these cultures, their historical tradition and schools of thought.
• The varieties of Arab-Islamic culture in al-Andalus and Sephardic Judaism.
• A critical approach to contemporary social issues and to the cultural diversity of the Middle East today, addressing interculturalism, the progress and development of human rights and the construction of constitutional and democratic values.

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

• 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 other foreign languages and basic IT skills.
• Interest in learning about Semitic languages and cultures of the Near and Middle East, Arab, Islamic, Judaic and biblical cultures, and the legacy of al-Andalus and Sephardic Judaism.

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

• Welcome portal
• Student Support Service (SAE)
• Open days
• Informative sessions

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

List of subjects

Pathways and specializations

Previous years

• Course plans 2023 - 2024
• Course plans 2022 - 2023
• Course plans 2021 - 2022

Teaching staff

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

• Regulations on external placements
• FeinaUB

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

• Teaching.
• Translation and interpreting.
• Curatorship and consultancy in the area of permanent collection and temporary exhibition.
• Sociocultural management.
• Publishing and editing.
• Assessment, translation and production of media studies and reports.
• Cultural mediation.
• Cooperation and development.
• Sales and business consultancy.
• Language engineering and natural language processing for private sector IT using Arabic and Hebrew.

Access to the labour market

Contact us

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