Study plan Bachelor's Degree in English and Catalan Studies

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Table of credits for each course

  Basic training Compulsory Optional Bachelor's Degree Final Project
1st year 54 6    
2nd year 6 54    
3rd year   48 12  
4th year   12 42 6
Totals 60 120 54 6

Period of study

The degree is organised into semesters

Part-time or full-time

Full-time, with the option of a slow track

Specialisations

Specialisation in Linguistics
Specialisation in Literature

Basic and compulsory training

1st year 2nd year
  • English Grammar I: from the Word to the Sentence
  • Academic Writing Skills in English I
  • Comparative Literature
  • Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar: from Sounds to Words
  • Modernism to Post-Modern Literary Movements
  • Introduction to English Literature
  • Academic Oral Skills in English I
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar: from the Sentence to the Wording
  • Literary Genres and Contemporary Society
  • Cultural History of the British Isles
  • Academic Writing Skills in English II
  • Bases of Catalan Philology
  • Lexicon and Grammar
  • Catalan Literature from Romanticism to Realism
  • English Grammar II: the Sentence
  • Academic Oral Skills in English II
  • Literature of Britain's Romanticism
  • Catalan Phonology
  • From Bernat Metge to Curial e Güelfa
3rd year 4th year
  • English Phonetics and Phonology I
  • History of American Culture
  • Bases of Language Rules
  • Tirant lo Blanc and Medieval Narrative
  • American Literature I: 19th Century
  • Victorian Literature
  • Catalan Syntactic
  • Contemporary Catalan Poetry
  • Catalan Dialectology
  • Comparative Linguistics of English and Catalan/Spanish
  • Bachelor's Degree Final Project

Optional subjects

All optional subjects are worth 6 credits.
 

3rd and 4th year

- Modern Language I (German)
- Modern Language I (Italian)
- Modern Language I (Basque)
- Modern Language I (French)
- Modern Language I (Galician)
- Modern Language I (Portuguese)
- Modern Language I (Occitan)
- Modern Language I (Modern Greek)
- Modern Language I (Romanian)
- Modern Language II (German)
- Modern Language II (Italian)
- Modern Language II (Basque)
- Modern Language II (French)
- Modern Language II (Galician)
- Modern Language II (Portuguese)
- Modern Language II (Occitan)
- Modern Language II (Modern Greek)
- Modern Language II (Romanian)

You may enrol in a maximum of 12 credits of these subjects.

-  Work Placement I

- Work Placement II

In order to obtain a Specialisation you must take at least 42 credits (7 subjects) pertaining to each track.

Specialisation in Linguistics Specialisation in  Literature
  • Linguistic Typology*
  • Language Acquisition
  • Biological Bases of Language
  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Theory of Language
  • Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Syntactic Analysis of English
  • English in a Global Context
  • Varieties of English
  • Introduction to the Acquisition and Teaching of English
  • English for Specific Purposes
  • Translation
  • Social History of the Catalan Language
  • catalan Morphology
  • Structure, Significance and Discourse
  • catalan as a Second Language
  • Language Policies and Planning 
  • Questions of Comparative Grammar 
  • Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature*
  • Western Literary Tradition. The Construction of European Literature
  • Literary Thought
  • American Literature II: from Modernism to the First Half of the 20th Centurya
  • English Literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
  • Contemporary English Literature: 20th and 21st Centuries
  • English Prose
  • Teaching Literature in English
  • Gender Studies in English-Speaking Countries
  • Cultural Studies in English-Speaking Countries
  • Ausiàs March and European Poetry
  • Catalan Medieval Tales and the Romanic Tradition
  • Catalan Literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
  • Narrative: from Víctor Català to Mercè Rodoreda
  • Narcís Oller and European Realism
  • Literature and Journalism: Josep Pla and the Between-War Prose
  • Catalan Theatre

(*) Compulsory specialisation subject.

Optional credits can be obtained either by choosing among the optional subjects of the degree or by taking a minor. The Faculty of aRts & Humanities offers a wide range of minors in languages and their literatures:

Minor in Language Sciences

Minor in Classical Culture

Minor in Medieval Romance Cultures and Literatures

Minor in German Studies

Minor in Basque Studies

Minor in Galician Studies

Minor in Italian Studies

Minor in Literary and Cultural Studies

Additional information

All optional subjects are not scheduled each year.