- UAB University Master's Degree
- Credits: 60 ECTS
-
Beginning of the pre-enrolment period 10/01/2025
See the calendar - Pre-registration period: Open
- Places: 25 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). 2025/26 Academic year. - Language: English (100%)
- Mode: Face-to-face teaching
-
Teaching centre:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Would you like to study English, focusing on its acquisition and usage in multilingual settings? Are you keen on exploring its literature and culture across different historical periods and regions, and recognising the role of power, gender, and environmental politics? Are you considering a career in education, publishing, or language technology?
The University Master's Degree in English Studies: Linguistic, Literary and Sociocultural Perspectives is taught wholly in English and provides the necessary theoretical and methodological tools for a comprehensive understanding of various study areas in one of the leading universities in Spain.
This MA programme, designed for graduates with a background in language, literary, and cultural studies in English, focuses on developing advanced English proficiency, including written, oral, and sociocultural skills, with an emphasis on language acquisition and teaching. The programme also provides in-depth knowledge of literature and culture in English, addressing challenges in reception, translation, and adaptation. Additionally, the curriculum uniquely blends linguistic training in multilingual and multicultural contexts with literary and cultural studies, focusing on themes such as war, the body, and the environment and integrating cutting-edge critical approaches such as ecocriticism, trauma, and LGTBIQ+ studies. This interdisciplinary approach merges theory with practical skills, critical thinking, and research methodologies.
For further information about the MA teaching staff, their research interests, and projects, visit our website.
Note also that this MA participates in the European Joint Master’s Programme and ERASMUS agreements, offering exceptional academic quality and global opportunities. The UAB joined the Programme a few years ago and has signed agreements with the University of Bamberg and Ca’ Foscari. It is currently negotiating agreements with the University of Graz and Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Career options
This research-oriented MA prepares students for international PhD opportunities. In addition, the development of advanced skills in expression, reasoning, and data analysis, will open doors to diverse career opportunities both nationally and internationally.
- Research management and support in the Humanities
- Teaching at tertiary education
- Publishing houses, media and other cultural industries
- Organization and coordination of English language training programmes at different levels of education
- Long-life learning and English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Internationalization programmes education, business, etc.
- Management of multilingualism
- Language applications
Career options
This research-oriented MA prepares students for international PhD opportunities. In addition, the development of advanced skills in expression, reasoning, and data analysis, will open doors to diverse career opportunities both nationally and internationally.
- Research management and support in the Humanities
- Teaching at tertiary education
- Publishing houses, media and other cultural industries
- Organization and coordination of English language training programmes at different levels of education
- Long-life learning and English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Internationalization programmes education, business, etc.
- Management of multilingualism
- Language applications
Testimonials
Work placements
This MA offers an elective Internship module. The goal of this module is to provide students with practical experience in the organization and development of professional activities both in the field of research and in other professional fields linked to the MA programme.
Coordinator: Mercè Coll
The Internship module has two modalities.
1. As a work placement with an organisation located outside the UAB campus. An agreement is signed between the student, the collaborating organisation and the UAB, which defines the terms and conditions of the placement as well as the student work plan.
2. As an academic/professional placement within the Department of English and German Studies (for example, by helping in a funded/consolidated research project or group. An agreement is signed between the student, the collaborating organisation and the UAB, which defines the terms and conditions of the placement as well as the student work plan.
In both cases, the module weighs 5 ECTS credits, which the student obtains upon completing the following:
• Practical work: 125h• Final written report: 20h• Regular meetings with the module coordinator: 5 h.
For further details you can check the Internship course guide.
List of placements
In the last few years, MA students have done their internship in the following organisations. Please note that, in some cases, trainees will be required to speak Spanish and/or Catalan as well as English.
- Larousse Publishing House
- UAB Language Service
- BA in English Studies
- CEA Global Campus Spain
- Discurso & Sociedad (academic journal)
- Orciny Press
- IES Bitàcola (high school)
- EFLIC Research Group (English as a Foreign Language in Instructed Contexts). UAB. PI: Dr Elisabet Pladevall
- ENIFALPO Research Project (English Immersion Family Language Policy). UAB. PI: Dr Eva Codó.
- Research Project “Cross-linguistic perception, online processing and production of similar phonetic categories in L1 and L2 speech”. UAB. PI: Dr Juli Cebrian.
- WINK ERC Project (Early Modern Women’s Writing). UAB. PI: Dr Carme Font.
- RATNAKARA Research Group (Indian Ocean Literatures and Cultures). PI. Dr Felicity Hand.
- SGR Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC). PI: Prof. Andrew Monnickendam