Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Literature

Field(s) of education and training (ISCED-F)

• Humanities (except languages) (022)

Main focus

This degree allows students to understand Literature as a subsystem within the cultural system, and also relates it to other subsystems such as art, communication, cinema, theatre, and entertainment. Therefore, the degree provides students with an understanding of Literature in its relations with the market, publishing production, and the cultural industry. It also gives them an understanding of the mechanism of such relations. The degree also trains students to critically read unpublished literary products and make judgements regarding their literary value and their possible projection in the publishing market. It trains them to understand and analyse border cultural products of contemporary culture such as intermedial or transmedial phenomena (cinema, videogames, comics) using comparative tools. Finally, the degree trains students to carry out research on Literature using specialized bibliography and to write professional literary criticism either for the general or specialized public.

Competences

1. Communicate, distinguish, contextualise, and evaluate a literary text using different literary theories or critical methodologies.
2. Compare literary texts belonging to different traditions.
3. Communicate information and ideas, as well as to set out problems and propose solutions to general or specialised audiences. This can be done within the general context of Literature as a whole or within the specific context of concrete literary works.
4. Collect relevant data and interpret them in order to make critical judgments of literary and cultural products, taking into account their structure, subject, genre, and rhetorical devices.
5. Understand the main features of transfer between literary language and filmic or scenic language (e.g. film adaptations of literary work).
6. Discern and give a reasoned justification of the criteria and periodisation of literary and cultural history.

Name of title awarded in original language

Graduado o Graduada en Literaturas Comparadas

Qualification requirements

– The student must prove the level B1, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows: Basic Formation (60 ECTS) Obligatory (150 ECTS) Optional (24 ECTS) Final degree project (6 ECTS)

Access to further studies

This Bachelor’s degree gives access to master’s studies.

Admission information

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to students with the following degrees/ diplomas or studies, or any other recognized as equivalent to these:
A.1. Spanish Bachiller, European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.
A.2. Baccalaureate from European Union Member States’ education systems or other countries withinternational agreements.
A.3. Advanced Technician in Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design orAdvanced Technician in Sports Education, from the Spanish Education System.
A.4.Studies carried out in European Union Member States or in other countries with international reciprocal agreements which meet the academic requirements in those States to access their university studyprogrammes.
A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.
A.6. Partial (foreign or Spanish) university studies.

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is also possible for:
B.1. People over twenty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
B.2. People over forty with work or professional experience related to a university field of knowledge.
B.3. People over forty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.

Likewise, access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to:
C.1. People meeting the requirements to enter university according to the Spanish Education Systemregulations prior to Ley Orgánica 8/2013, of December 9.

Grading scale
In the Spanish university system, modules/courses are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 points with the following qualitative equivalence:
0-4,9: «suspenso»; 5-6,9: «aprobado»; 7-8,9: «notable»; 9-10: «sobresaliente». A special mention, «Matrícula de Honor» may be granted to up to 5% of the students in a group provided they have got a «sobresaliente». To pass a module/course is necessary to get at least 5 points.
In cases of recognition of ECTS, professional experience, cultural or sports activities, or student representation no grading will be recorded but, where appropriate, the word «Apto».

UGR Examination Regulations
https://docencia.ugr.es/sites/vic/docencia/public/inline-files/Normativa_de_evaluacion_y_calificacion_EN.pdf

More info on academic regulations at: 

https://ugrcat.ugr.es/en/about-ugr/#regulations