Degree in English Studies: Language and Literature

What you learn

The degree provides broad training in studies on language, literature and culture in the English-speaking field. The different branches of philological knowledge (grammar, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, history of language, literary movements and genres, authors of literature, etc.) applied to English are studied. In this way, students are prepared to successfully carry out the responsibilities of their working life.

At the same time, it allows you to acquire a very good multilingual competence (English, Galician and Spanish; optionally, also in German, French, Italian or Portuguese), which has a positive impact on your professional skills.

Generic skills

Among the generic skills acquired by students, it is necessary to point out the ability to apply linguistic and literary knowledge to practice, the ability to analyse and comment on literary and non-literary texts and discourses using modern textual analysis techniques, the ability to apply new technologies to the study of linguistic and literary phenomena, the ability to appreciate artistic, cultural and aesthetic values in literary texts, and the ability to relate language, literature, history and culture.

Specific skills

• To know and apply the methods and techniques of linguistic and literary analysis within the framework of English-speaking studies.
• To know the theoretical currents of linguistics and English-speaking literary science.
• Master the grammar of the English language.
• Have an advanced instrumental command of the Galician language and the Spanish language.
• Have an advanced knowledge of English literature.
• Have the ability to critically analyse, evaluate, and synthesize linguistic and literary information from the English-speaking world.
• To know the linguistic variation in the English-speaking domain.
• Know the internal and external history of the English language.
• Know the textual typologies and formulate proposals for linguistic and/or textual correction for English.

Transversal skills

Among the generic skills acquired by students, it is necessary to point out the ability to apply linguistic and literary knowledge to practice, the ability to analyse and comment on literary and non-literary texts and discourses using modern textual analysis techniques, the ability to apply new technologies to the study of linguistic and literary phenomena, the ability to appreciate artistic, cultural and aesthetic values in literary texts, and the ability to relate language, literature, history and culture.

Professional and academic career

Professional environment

• Editorial and journalistic world.

• Teaching English or Spanish to foreigners.
• Sociocultural management.
• Translation.
• Advertising and content on social networks and the internet.
• Libraries and documentation centres.
• Research and literary criticism.

Professional and academic career

Among the main profiles of academic-labor opportunities, the following stand out: teaching, translation and interpreting, linguistic, cultural and editorial advice and mediation, cultural and linguistic advice in the business world, literary criticism, media, cultural management, linguistic and literary promotion, language therapy, advertising, specialized bookstores, etc.

Students can also continue their higher education and access the various master's degrees offered at the faculty.

Companies and institutions involved

The Faculty of Philology has collaboration agreements with more than 20 entities so that students can come into contact with the workplace. In these agreements, which are renewed every year, extracurricular external internships are organized. Students thus come into contact with the publishing world, with technology centres, libraries, cultural institutions, etc., and can see first-hand the professional possibilities after their studies.

Planning for teaching

The curriculum of the Bachelor's Degree in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies is structured in four academic years organized by semesters, except in the second year, in which two subjects are annual.

In the first two years, all subjects are compulsory and are common to the degrees in Galician and Portuguese and Spanish. Based on this common training, in the third and fourth years each student will be able to deepen the study of the English language and its corresponding literatures (British, Anglo-Irish, American, etc.), also relying on complementary and transversal subjects.

The study plan is divided into 240 credits, of which 120 are taken in the first and second academic years in the common subjects. In the third and fourth years, 78 credits will be taken in the compulsory subjects, a minimum of 18 in the specific subjects, a maximum of 18 in the general optional subjects and 6 in the Final Degree Project.

Study structure

The degrees are organized by courses. Click on a academic year for more information.

• Curso 1
• Curso 2
• Curso 3
• Curso 4

 BOE with syllabus (PDF)

External references

The Bachelor's Degree in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies was designed with the previous Bachelor's Degree in English Philology in mind. At the same time, linguistic and literary studies from different European universities (France, Italy, Portugal...) were also taken into account, where it is very common for at least two languages to be studied together and their respective literatures, as well as subjects of linguistics, literary theory and translation.

Query procedures used

The preparation of the curriculum for this degree was carried out within the framework of the "Guidelines for the preparation of undergraduate degrees at the UDC", approved by the Governing Council of the university in 2007. It had a drafting committee, composed of nine members, in which all sectors of the university community were represented (students, teaching staff and PTGAS). The draft was publicly exposed, debated and, finally, approved by the Faculty Board.

Throughout the planning process of the degree, several meetings were held with the deans of other centers (Faculty of Humanities of the UDC, Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Faculty of Philology and Translation of the University of Vigo, etc.).

Teachers

By now, the study does not have departments responsible for teaching.

• Curso 1
• Curso 2
• Curso 3
• Curso 4

Student mobility

UDC holds student mobility agreements with universities and other third-level institutions across four continents. Students are offered several opportunities each year to apply to study abroad in one of these centres (for a single term or for a whole year), with the guarantee that all credits obtained will be duly recognised in their academic record upon their return.

For each round of applications, the University publishes the list of exchange options available to students and, where relevant, the specific conditions associated with each. Students may also apply to the University for funding for international work experience placements and internships.

Work experience placements are accredited in the student's academic record and the European diploma supplement. Students are free to decide in which host company or academic institution within the EHEA they wish to carry out their placement. To assist them in their search, the University has created an online noticeboard with jobs postings and other news.

Work-study placements in A Coruña are arranged by the International Relations Office (ORI) of the UDC in collaboration with the international relations coordinators in the student’s home university. The general entry criteria, rights and obligations of students, and admission and acceptance procedures for the programme, are regulated by the UDC Mobility Policy.

Particular centre actions

The Faculty of Philology of the UDC has a long tradition of participation and cooperation in the development of student mobility strategies, particularly at the European level. This favours contact with other linguistic, literary, cultural and social realities in different countries, with the obvious cultural and personal enrichment for the students.
Thus, thanks to existing agreements, people who study the degree in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies have the possibility of completing part of the degree at a foreign university. Through the Erasmus+ and SICUE programme, there is the possibility of studying for a semester or even for a whole year at universities in Slovakia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Turkey, as well as in other Spanish universities (Almeria, Autonomous University of Madrid, Cantabria, Granada, Huelva, Balearic Islands, Jaén, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Salamanca and Seville).