Degree in Spanish Studies: Language and Literature

What you learn

This degree provides broad training in the field of studies on language, literature and culture in the Hispanic world. The different branches of philological knowledge (grammar, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, history of language, literary movements and genres, authors of literature, etc.) applied to Spanish 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 (Spanish, Galician, English; optionally, also in French, Italian, Portuguese and German), which has a positive impact on professional skills.

Generic skills

Among the generic skills that students acquire are the following: the ability to apply linguistic and literary knowledge to practice; the competence 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 Hispanic studies.
• To know the theoretical currents of linguistics and Hispanic literary science.
• Master the grammar of the Spanish language.
• Have an advanced instrumental command of the Galician language and the English language.
• Have an advanced knowledge of literature in the Spanish language.
• Have the ability to analyze, evaluate, and critically synthesize linguistic and literary information from the Hispanic field.
• To know the linguistic variation in the mastery of the Spanish language.
• To know the internal and external history of the Spanish language.
• Know the textual typologies and formulate proposals for linguistic and/or textual correction for Spanish.

Transversal skills

Among the generic skills that students acquire are the following: the ability to apply linguistic and literary knowledge to practice; the competence 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

Students who complete their undergraduate studies will have a very high specialization in the Hispanic linguistic and literary field. For this reason, it will connect with a professional context that is also specialised in which the main work itineraries will be teaching in the public and private spheres (academies, schools, institutes, faculties, assistantships in foreign universities, etc.), linguistic and sociocultural advice, translation, writing and proofreading, cultural management, etc.
Students can also continue their higher education and access the various master's degrees offered at the faculty.

Professional and academic career

• Publishing and media
• Teachers of Spanish language and literature
• Teaching Spanish to foreigners
• Sociocultural management
• Translation
• Advertising and content on social networks and the internet
• Libraries and documentation centres
• Research and literary criticism

Companies and institutions involved

The Faculty of Philology has collaboration agreements with various entities so that students can come into contact with the field labor. In these agreements, which are renewed every year, the extracurricular external internships.

Planning for teaching

The curriculum of the Bachelor's Degree in Spanish: 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 English.

Based on this common training, in the third and fourth year each student will be able to deepen the study of the Spanish language and Spanish and Latin American literatures, also relying on complementary and transversal subjects.

The curriculum is distributed in 240 credits, of which 120 are taken in the first and second year 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 of the degree, 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 Spanish: Linguistic and Literary Studies was designed taking into account the previous Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Philology. At the same time, linguistic and literary studies from different European universities were also taken into account, where it is very common for at least two languages to be studied together (France, Italy, Portugal...) 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 of different countries, with the evident cultural and personal enrichment of the students.
Thanks to existing agreements, people who study the degree in Spanish: Linguistic and Literary Studies have the possibility of completing part of the degree at a Spanish or foreign university. Through the Erasmus+ and SICUE programmes, there is the possibility of studying for a semester or even for a whole year at universities in Slovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Turkey, as well as at other Spanish universities (Almeria, Autonomous University of Madrid, Cantabria, Granada, Huelva, Balearic Islands, Jaén, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Salamanca and Seville).