University Master's Degree in School Library and Reading Promotion

Do you like children's books? Do you consider school libraries a key feature of today's education centres? Are you interested in the promotion of reading? This master's degree is all you need!

General information

  • Inter-University
  • Credits: 60 ECTS
  • Course begins on 16/09/2024
  • Beginning of the pre-enrolment period 10/01/2025
    See the calendar
  • Places: 30 places
  • Price: €27.67 per credit (EU citizens and non-EU holding an EU residence permit). 2024/25 Academic year.
    €66 per credit (non-EU citizens who do not hold an EU residence permit). 2024/25 Academic year.

  • Language: Catalan (100%)
  • Mode: Classroom-based learning

  • Teaching centre: Faculty of Education
Master's degree in School Library and Reading Promotion

Are you interested in learning how to create and transform school libraries into learning environments offering all types of resources and services? Do you want to discover how reading programmes are designed and implemented in the centres? Would you like to select and recommend literature in all types of forms and formats to children and teens? Do you want to develop social projects that can have an effect on the reading habits of citizens?

If you form part of the professional group of primary and secondary school teachers, librarians and information specialists, mediators and cultural promoters, or leisure activity monitors, cultural managers and publishing house professionals, this master's degree is for you!

Why choose it?

Because It is the only university master's degree of its kind in Catalonia and Spain, and is officially recognised by the Ministry for Education for its teaching profile of "School Library and Reading".

The subjects, offered by lecturers specialised this field from different departments of the UAB and the UB, combine online activities with classroom-based lectures which include renowned professionals, visits to centres and cultural outings.

 

Career options

This Master's degree will provide you with the training needed to direct a school library or the children's section of a public library, work in resource centres or as a social and cultural entertainer, in publishing houses and as a qualified professional in assessing educational syllabi in public administration posts or in other social initiatives related to the promotion of reading among society.

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Work placements

Coordinator university:

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Participating universities

Universitat de Barcelona

Additional information

http://www.gretel.cat/

Quality

AQU Catalunya quality seal of the Official Master's Degree in  School Library and Reading Promotion Go to the Master in figures

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