Master's Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures

Academic year 2018-19 | 60 credits | 40 places

Degree data and benchmarks

Students

 

Data and description

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
New 16 20 16 10 17 14
SIIU New 11 16 15 8 17 13
Registered 32 38 28 24 28 27
Graduates 5 10 10 8 7 12

New students: these students are starting their studies from the beginning for the first time. They may have recognised credits or not.

New SIIU students: these students are starting their studies from the beginning, registering on a programme for the first time and, in accordance with SIIU criteria, may have fewer than 10 credits (for a Master's) or 30 credits (for an undergraduate programme) recognised. This set of students may also be referred to as the optimum new entry group. 

Registered students: these students have an active registration on a programme for an academic year. This set of students may also be referred to as the total student population.

  • Registration reservations are not included (due to the students awaiting a place at another university or credit recognition)
  • Registration cancellations are not included
  • Students with unpaid debts are not included

Graduates: these students have passed (passed or accredited) all credits required for the degree programme and have, therefore, finished their course regardless of whether they have requested their degree certificate be issued or not.

Entry Cohort

 

Data and description

2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
Graduation Rate - 33% 50% 70% 73% 29%
Drop-out Rate - 31% 25% 35% 12% 40%

Final drop-out rate: the percentage of students from a new entry cohort that, without graduating, have not re-registered on the degree or any other programme, either at this university or at any other insitution in Spain, for two academic years in a row.

Graduation rate (RD 1393/2007) is defined as the percentage of students from an entry cohort that finish their programmes in the theoretical planned timeframe for the curriculum, or within an additional academic year. The reference population is the New Full-time SIIU Student Group.

Graduating Class

 

Data and description

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
Graduate Efficiency Rate 85% 94% 93% 87% 60% 94%

The efficiency rate is defined as the percentage ratio between the total number of credits passed by students throughout the registered programme from which they have graduated, and the total number of credits they effectively registered for. The reference population is the optimum group.

Credits Taken and Passed

 

Data and description

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
Degree Success Rate 96% 97% 96% 90% 96% 96%
Performance Rate 63% 68% 76% 58% 58% 75%

Success rate: the percetage ratio between the number of passed credits and the number of credits taken for assessment.

Performance rate: the percentage ratio between the number of credits passed and the number of credits registered for.

Who directly oversees the quality of the degree programme?

Quality Assurance Commission

Quality Manager
Joana Salazar Noguera
Teaching and Research Staff
  • Perfecto Cuadrado Fernández
  • Maria Juan Garau
  • José Igor Prieto Arranz
Admin and Services Staff
María Consolación Hernández Guerra
Student
Luis Fernández Naranjo

The Quality Assurance Committee (CGQ) gathers all of the information regarding the degree programme (survey reports, data, statistics, complaints, suggestions, etc.) and analyses them. Here, you can see the regulations and duties of the Quality Assurance Committee (CGQ).

Commitment to quality

Declaration in which the person in charge of ensuring the quality of the Master's programme wishes to express his/her commitment to quality and the constant improvement of his/her actions.

End of master projects

  • (IN)VISIBLES: Análisis de la invisibilización de varias realidades sociales en dos libros de texto de Lengua Castellana de 1º y 2º de E.S.O.
  • American Gods: de la literatura a la ficción televisiva
  • Dos bailes y dos entremeses de Sebastián Rodríguez de Villaviciosa. Edición Crítica.
  • Estudi diacrónico y diatópico de las formas soy, voy, doy y estoy.
  • Estudio de las vocales medias en un dialecto del español en el sur de Colombia: el pastuso
  • La traducción al español de la poesía de Li Qingzhao. Análisis comparativo entre las versiones de Octavio Paz, P. González España y Chen Guojian
  • Neología y diccionario: a propósito de la diccionarización de los nuevos lemas en la actualización 23.2 de la vigésima tercera edición del DLE.
  • "U." Could Write Me: Inspiring Resistance through Dividual Ways in Tom McCarthy's Satin Island
  • Ansiedad de los estudiantes españoles ante las pruebas orales de inglés como lengua extranjera
  • Configuración del espacio urbano en el Diario de un poeta recién casado, de Juan Ramón Jiménez
  • El monólogo interior (Stream of consciousness) en la poesía de la experiencia de Luis García Montero: Habitaciones separadas (1994)
  • Feminist Dystopia and Young Adult Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours (2014)
  • Mitos acuáticos, identidades fluidas: el mito como constructor de la identidad en Tala de Gabriela Mistral.
  • Monstruos, videojuegos y estudios culturales: El caso de The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
  • PAUL DELVAUX Y JULIO CORTÁZAR. INTERTEXTUALIDAD INTERARTÍSTICA. La pintura de Paul Delvaux en el cuento "Siestas" de Julio Cortázar
  • Poesía plástica/ poesía verbal y sus relaciones en la producción artística y literaria del surrealismo portugués
  • Producción de oclusivas labiales y dentales del español y el mandarín por estudiantes chinos
  • The Representation of Queer African Identities in Fairytales for Lost Children by Diriye Osman
  • El cambio fónico de yod primera: la evolución histórica a través del español actual
  • El cuidado como transgresión en Love, A Mercy y Home de Toni Morrison
  • La dominancia lingüística en alumnado bilingüe de árabe-francés en Marruecos
  • Political Satire and British Television. The Representation of Women in Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister and The Thick of It
  • Transferencia léxica en la interlengua oral de estudiantes tunecinos de español como lengua extranjera
  • A diachronic and geographic study of the historical evolution of Old Spanish connusco, convusco
  • Exploring a universalist, non-imperialist approach to the translation of post-colonial texts: the case study of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 'Sozaboy'
  • Hair Politics in the Blogosphere: Natural Hair Communities and the Politics of Self-representation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
  • Neologisms in the current colombian press
  • The nascent feminism in Japan. A comparison between Eiichiro Oda and Takahashi Rumiko
  • US Hispanics . Case study: The Hispanic factor in the 2016 U.S presidential primary
  • "Seseo" in a collection of Majorcan documents from the 18th and 19th centuries
  • Cultural imaginary and new contemporary narrative forms: Alice and Little Red Riding Hood as transmedia products
  • La inspiración poética a través de las drogas en los modernistas españoles
  • Pintura y poesía en Rafael Alberti: a la pintura
  • The poetry of Julio Cortázar