Study plan Bachelor's Degree in English Studies

Basic skills

• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
• Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their study area) to issue judgments that include reflection on important issues of social, scientific or ethical.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

• Executing in oral and written form a flexible and effective use of the English language with academic, professional and social purposes.
• Demonstrate they know a wide variety of texts in English language of any mean (oral, written, audiovisual) and recognising implicit meanings.
• Produce clear and well structured and detailed texts in English about complex topics, displaying a correct use of the organisation, connection and cohesion of the text.
• Demonstrate a general comprehension of the historical evolution of the English language.
• Identify the main literary, cultural and historical currents in the English language.
• Describe synchronously the main grammar units, constructions and phenomena of the English language.
• Demonstrate a comprehension of the relationship between factors, processes and phenomena of linguistics, literature, history and culture, and explaining it.
• Using the acquired knowledge in order to solve problems related to any professional activity in the field of the English language, specially to the teaching.
• Distinguish and contrast the various theoretical and methodological models applied to the study of the English language, its literature and its culture.
• Rewrite and organize information and arguments coming from several sources in English and presenting them in a coherent and summarised way.
• Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the English language.
• Mastering the basic concepts in order to understand and interpret literary works originally written in German.
• Mastering the basic concepts in order to understand and interpret feature films based on literary works originally written in German.
• Identifying and relating the major issues of Western literature within German literature.
• Identifying the basic concepts of history, culture and literature in German.
• Relating the concepts and information from different fields of German literature, and relating these with the concepts and information of human, artistic and social fields in German.
• Draw up essays in Spanish, Catalan or German about literature or cinema originally in German.
• Analysing the formal, thematic, cultural and historical characteristics of the works of literary creation and reflection on literature of different languages and countries.
• Applying different analytical tools to several types of literary works.
• Demonstrating they know the basic theoretical foundations of the main methods and currents of literature and criticism.
• Summarising the basic theoretical foundations of the reflection on literature in every of its forms since ancient times.
• Interpreting and assessing literary texts and explaining the process results.
• Relating literary works from different countries, languages, periods and authors according to genres, topics, modalities and forms. Identifying the specific concepts and methods of each of the fields of comparatism.
• Understanding the biological, cognitive and cultural foundations of human language and the main contemporary grammatical models.
• Recognising and using reasonably the principles, methods and results of the structural analysis of languages, foundations of the linguistic theory and approaches of the study of language and communication as a complex, emerging and dynamic phenomenon.
• Relating the methods and results of linguistics with those from other sciences and currents of though and interpreting the overlapping of language with other aspects of the human activity.
• Identifying the linguistic types behind the linguistic diversity and establishing generalisations and universal principles.
• Analysing the lexical, phonetic, phonological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of natural languages.
• Applying the various analytical tools to different types of linguistic data.
• Identifying the various means and tools of the new technologies in order to do an automatic treatment of natural language.

Transversal skills

• Working in an autonomous and responsible way in a professional or research environment in English or other languages, in order to accomplish the previously set objectives.
• Utilising new technologies in order to capture and organise information in English and other languages, and applying it to the personal continued training and to the problem-solving in the professional or research activity.
• Effectively working individually or in teams in multicultural and interdisciplinary environments in English and other languages, applying values of a culture of peace, and the characteristic democratic values of a degree in a foreign language that trains the student for intercultural communication.