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.

Additional information

All optional subjects are not scheduled each year.