University Master's Degree in Spanish Language, Hispanic Literature and Spanish as a Foreign Language

Boost your professional and academic development through the study of Spanish language and literature. We offer you access to the international reach of teaching Spanish as a foreign language

Official Master's Degree in Spanish Language, Hispanic Literature and Spanish as a Foreign Language

Ideal student profile


Basic skills

  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously

Specific skills

  • Display specialist knowledge of the standard language, both oral and written.
  • Analyse a text from a philological, linguistic and literary perspective.
  • Describe the structure of the Spanish language.
  • Identify the diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic varieties of Spanish.
  • Distinguish between the conceptual problems posed by the study of Spanish language and literature to native speakers and to non-native speakers.
  • Relate authors and literary texts in Spanish to their cultural, social and historical context.
  • Relate authors and literary texts in Spanish to recent research into European traditions since the Middle Ages.
  • Relate literary texts produced in Latin America and their authors to their cultural, social and historical context.
  • Display specialist knowledge of the main currents in the study of textual transmission and of the various phases in text editing.

Cross-curricular skills

  • Give an oral presentation on any topic related to the field of the master's programme.
  • Design and carry out a research project on any topic related to the field of the master's programme.
  • Use the bibliographic and technological resources of linguistic and literary research.
  • Develop the ability to evaluate sex-and gender-based inequalities and design solutions.