Master's Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures

Academic year 2025-26

You can also consult this information for the academic year 2024-25.
The adaptation process to modify this curriculum to the new version for the 2025-26 academic year has begun.
If you started the master’s programme on this curriculum version, you may either continue with it or request adaptation to the new version via the direct admission procedure. Please see the information on the adaptation due to curriculum modification procedure.
Please see the enrolment deadlines for the 2025-26 academic year for this master's programme.

In order to be awarded the degree, students must pass 60 ECTS as per the following:

50 ECTS from the subjects:

  • 15 ECTS to be selected on one of the following pathways:
    Literary and Cultural Studies: 11140, 11141, 11142.
    Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: 11170, 11171, 11172.
  • 35 ECTS to be selected from the remaining electives on the chosen pathway. In addition, up to two electives on another pathway may be taken (except those indicated in the previous section)

10 ECTS from the Master's Thesis.

Comments:

Classes are taught in Spanish or Catalan—the two co-official languages of the Autonomous Region, based on the language knowledge level of registered students. In general, subjects taken by mobility students are taught in English. Mobility students are given advice beforehand on the content and language of instruction, and where possible, they are offered adapted teaching in the language or languages they speak.

Subjects with no link are not offered in this edition
First year
Name Type Credits Period
11190 - Master's Thesis Master's Thesis 10,0 2nd semester

 Cultural and Literary Studies
  • Mallorca

Cultural and Literary Studies
Name Credits Period
11140 - Research Techniques in Literary and Cultural Studies 5,0 1st semester
11141 - Techniques for Composition Writing and Literary Interpretation 5,0 1st semester
11142 - Beyond the Bounds of Literary Rules: New Perspectives in Literary and Cultural Studies 5,0 1st semester
11143 - Classical Tradition in Literature 5,0 1st semester
11147 - Golden Age Religious Preaching and Humanism 5,0 1st semester
11148 - Juan Ramón Jiménez and 20th-Century Poetic Renewal 5,0 1st semester
11168 - Monographic Seminar on Literary and Cultural Specialisation I 5,0 1st semester
11146 - The American Way(s) of Life. 21st-Century US Cultures and Literature 5,0 2nd semester
11155 - Between Language and Culture: An Introduction to Literary Translation 5,0 2nd semester
11161 - Comparative Literature: Themes, Myths and Motifs 5,0 2nd semester
11163 - Feminism and globalization: literature, culture and society in post-colonia 5,0 2nd semester
11144 - The detective novel and the 20th century. Evolution and trends 5,0
11145 - Masks, paradoxes and fragments: the case of Fernando Pessoa 5,0
11149 - Gender and Identity in Contemporary Spanish Female Poetry 5,0
11150 - From Modernism to Expressionism: Valle-Inclan's Aesthetic Evolution from 1895 to 1936 5,0
11151 - Modern and Contemporary British Literature: Analysis and Critical Reviews 5,0
11152 - Diasporic Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures 5,0
11153 - The Female Bildungsroman in Contemporary Anglophone Literature: A Critical Analysis 5,0
11154 - To Be or Not to Be: An Analysis of Written Expressions of Identity from a Cultural Studies Perspective 5,0
11156 - Globalization and cultural creation: prospects for study and applications 5,0
11157 - Literature and visual culture: from the Renaissance to the Baroque 5,0
11158 - Regionalism and local colour in tales in English: 19th and 20th centuries 5,0
11159 - The female universe in 19th century Spanish narrative 5,0
11160 - Intertextual Analysis 5,0
11162 - Contemporary poetics 5,0
11164 - Beyond the Bounds of Writing: Golden Age Theatre Performances 5,0
11165 - Short Plays from the Spanish Golden Age 5,0
11166 - Post-dramatic theatre 5,0
11167 - Orality and Writing: Opposition and Interference 5,0
11169 - Monographic Seminar on Literary and Cultural Specialisation II 5,0

 Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
  • Mallorca

Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Name Credits Period
11170 - Research Techniques in Linguistics 5,0 1st semester
11171 - Approaches to Language Description and Analysis 5,0 1st semester
11172 - Applied Linguistics: Theory and Practice 5,0 1st semester
11177 - Applied Experimental Phonetics in Speech Acquisition 5,0 1st semester
11178 - Discourse Analysis in Practice: Perspectives, Methods and Tools 5,0 1st semester
11183 - Syntax: Historical and Synchronic Perspectives 5,0 1st semester
11184 - Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts 5,0 1st semester
11175 - Etymology: The Foundations of Lexicographical Research 5,0 2nd semester
11176 - Spanish Lexical Morphology: Research Premises 5,0 2nd semester
11181 - Between Language and Culture: An Introduction to Literary Translation 5,0 2nd semester
11182 - Morphosyntax acquisition in first and second languages and bilingual contex 5,0 2nd semester
11185 - Materials and Curricular Design in Language Teaching and Learning: Classroom-Based Research 5,0 2nd semester
11173 - Assessment in Language Teaching and Learning 5,0
11174 - Research into Pragmatics 5,0
11179 - Language Needs Analysis: The Acquisition and Teaching of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes 5,0
11180 - Linguistic Variation: Research Methods and Mechanisms 5,0
11186 - Typologies and Linguistic Universals 5,0
11187 - Orality and Writing: Opposition and Interference 5,0
11188 - Monographic Seminar on Language Specialisation I 5,0
11189 - Monographic Seminar on Language Specialisation II 5,0