Study plan Bachelor's Degree in Spanish and Chinese Studies: Language, Literature and Culture

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 must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • 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 to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

  • Describe the linguistic foundations on which the standards of Spanish and mandarin Chinese are based.
  • Recognise the factors of linguistic variation in Spanish from diachronic and synchronic viewpoints.
  • Identify and apply different methods and focuses for teaching Spanish as a foreign language.
  • Recognise the bases of the history of East Asia in general and China in particular, and interpret the historical and cultural relations and interactions between Europe and Asia.
  • Evaluate the influence of cultural references in Chinese studies in interlinguistic and intercultural communication.
  • Understand written texts in mandarin Chinese at a basic level. (A1, A2).
  • Understand and produce spoken texts in Mandarin Chinese at a basic level (A1, A2).
  • Apply knowledge of Spanish and Latin American literature to the identification of genes, movements, tendencies and styles.
  • Comment on literary texts in Spanish and in Chinese, situate them historically and relate them to the literary trends to which they belong.
  • Analyse the phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical and semantic properties of the Spanish language and the Mandarin Chinese language.
  • Compare Spanish and Chinese from a literary and linguistic knowledge of both languages.
  • Produce written texts in Mandarin Chinese at a basic level (A1, A2).
  • Design, carry out and defend an academic work in the field of Latin American and Chinese studies using the tools for linguistic and literary analysis learned during the degree course.
  • Understand texts written in Mandarin Chinese at an intermediate level (B1, B2).
  • Understand and produce spoken texts in Mandarin Chinese at an intermediate level (B1, B2).
  • Produce written texts in Mandarin Chinese at an intermediate level (B1, B2).

Transversal skills

  • Use techniques for compilation, organisation and use of information and documentation with precision.
  • Carry out critical reading and interpretation of texts using linguistic and literary concepts acquired.
  • Demonstrate the capacity to work autonomously, engaging in self-analysis and self. Criticism.
  • Demonstrate skills that facilitate teamworking.