General structure of the degree

 

1. Teaching Structure

This section details the structure of the syllabus. The syllabus is organised according to a structure of modules and courses. The modules and courses proposed are coherent with the general objectives and guarantee the acquisition of the competences of the degree. In order to adapt the map of degrees to the demand, it was decided to propose a joint action plan that would comply with the recommendations of the Dictamen de Parlamento de Andalucía on the Andalusian university system of 2001, the agreements of the Academic Commission of the CAU and the Governing Council of the University of Cadiz. With this objective in mind, a joint planning of the teaching in the Faculty has been articulated, which implies the existence of a first year of common contents almost in its entirety for the philological type degrees. In addition, and following the structure approved by the Andalusian Commission for Philology, these degrees share twelve credits of modern language in the compulsory courses, as well as a single credit assigned to the end-of-degree project in the different degrees (six credits). In accordance with the guidelines set out in Real Decreto 1393/2007 of 29 October, the first year of student enrolment consists of basic branch courses, most of which are common to all degrees with philological roots. Of these courses, five have been established at Andalusian level (Language, Linguistics, Literature, Modern Language, Classical Language) and are distributed in a total of 36 credits. The Andalusian commission for philologies decided that the distribution of the remaining 24 credits to complete the 60 credits of basic branch courses should be left to the discretion of each university. In this sense, the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of Cadiz, in an extraordinary session held on 3 February 2009, agreed to reserve twelve of these 24 credits to try to complete the transversal training of the student, while the other twelve credits were assigned to each of the degrees in order to introduce introductory courses to more specific contents of the degrees. This distribution responds to the philosophy expressed in the aforementioned Real Decreto in the sense that the 60 credits of basic branch courses will be automatically recognised for Bachelor’s degrees in the same branch of knowledge. In addition (except in exceptional cases), the centre has placed all the basic branch courses in the student’s first year of enrolment, thus facilitating the change of enrolment and degree in the second year when appropriate. In this way, a student can enrol in the first year of any degree and change degree after that year without having to take first-year contents; instead, he/she would go directly to the second year of the new degree chosen.

 

 

1.1. Distribution of the syllabus in ECTS credits, by course type.

 

The Graduate Degree in Linguistics and Applied Languages is structured in such a way that full-time students must take 240 ECTS credits over four years, in accordance with the provisions of Real Decreto 1393/2007. This total includes 60 credits corresponding to basic training courses, the rest being distributed among compulsory courses, optional courses, external placements and the final degree project, as indicated in the following table:

 

 

 

 

• Includes 6 credits of the “Practicum” course which may consist, alternatively, of:
• the performance of Professional internships in companies or institutions,
• a “Seminar” on vocational integration or employment guidance and on research techniques or techniques commonly used in various professional fields related to the Degree.

 

 

The student can set up his or her curriculum by taking all the subjects of basic training (60 credits) and compulsory courses which form the core of the degree programme (114 credits plus 6 credits for final work). All the students will also undertake a 6-credit “Vocational Integration” activity, which may consist of internships in companies or institutions or a set of seminar activities. These contents are in line with the guidelines set by the Andalusian Council of Universities for defining the proposed degree, and have the support of the social partners represented at the plenary session of this coordinating body of the Andalusian university system.

 

Taking into account their interests, and with the necessary advice of the Centre’s guidance system, the student studying this degree at the University of Cadiz must complete 60 elective credits according to the following options: courses to reinforce specific contents of the degree and modules oriented towards a specific curricular profile, or courses or training activities authorised by the University’s Governing Council, either from among those included in other degrees, or specifically designed and oriented towards their integral training. In any case, students may apply for recognition of up to 6 credits for university activities: cultural, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation.

 

Without contradicting what is expressed in the previous paragraph and to allow training in specific itineraries of the Degree in Hispanic Philology, the student may pursue the optativity as follows:

 

1. By completing the electives subjects of the modules in one of the two itineraries provided for in the curriculum. The Research, Planning and Linguistic Advice itinerary has been designed to guide the student of Hispanic Philology towards traditional research and teaching profiles (subjects 2 to 5) also to work related to language policy and planning (subject 1), management and advice in the media (subjects 1 and 2) and management of cultural heritage (literary and cinematographic) in Andalusia (subjects 3 and 4). Subject 5 has been considered of particular interest not only for its professional implications but also to make the student of Hispanic Philology aware of the place that his discipline occupies in the system of knowledge, taking into account that the apparent weakness of the Humanities in the scientific-current technological can only be tackled from the philosophical and anthropological understanding of the transcendence of the cultural dimension of the human being.The Teaching and Publishing World itinerary has been designed to orient the student of Hispanic Philology towards the traditional research and teaching (subjects 2 to 5) introducing the student into two specific teaching areas which are those that constitute preferred job openings (teaching Spanish as L2 and teaching Spanish language and literature at Highschool (ESO)). This itinerary also includes other professional profiles related to Hispanic Philology: the publishing industry, cultural management and linguistic and intercultural mediation.
2. By completing four elective subjects of which the modules form one of the two itineraries provided for in the curriculum and the recognition of up to six credits for: completion of external training, up to a maximum of six credits; beyond those which may be compulsory, courses and workshops aimed at the acquisition of transversal skills offered by the University and which are appropriate to the qualification: languages, information technology, Entrepreneurs, as determined by the Governing Council. Courses and activities oriented towards the integral training of the student, offered by the University, according to the list determined and updated by the Governing Council, and chosen in such a way as to complement those proper to the degree.

 

recognition of credits for participation in activities referred to in art. 12.8 of RD 1393/2007 [Following art. 46.2.i of the Ley Orgánica 6/2001, of 21 December, of Universities, according to which students may obtain academic recognition in credits for participation in university activities cultural, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation.

 

This proposal aims to give a better response to the social and vocational demands of students, thus meeting what is established in Art. 56.3 of the Andalusian Law on Universities. It will be up to the Governing Council, in the light of proposals from the Centre, to determine what content may extend the specific option offer of the degree.

 

1.2. General explanation of curriculum planning

 

This section contains a description of the modules and subjects covered by the curriculum, as well as their timetable.

 

1.2.1. Description of the modules and subjects covered by the plan

 

The curriculum for the Graduate in Hispanic Philology consists of the following modules:

 

 

Tables 2 to 13 then detail the information associated with each module together with the subjects it comprises.

 

Table 1. Description and contents of the module M2

Module: Modern Language II

ECTS: 12

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic skills: G03, G05, G11

Specific Level Competences:

E03, E05

Module Specific Competences:

EM1, EM2, EM3, EM4, EM5

Short description:Study of a Modern Language among those offered by the Center (German, Modern Arabic, French, English, and Modern Greek)

Subjects covered by the module

• Subject 1: Modern Language II/Modern Language IB

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Short description of the subject: Study of a Modern Language

 

 

Table 2. Description and contents of Module M3

Module: Genres in Literature in Spanish

ECTS: 18

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: G01, G02, G03, G04, G06, G07, G08, G09, G10, G12

Specific Degree Competences:

E03, E05, E25.

Module Specific Competences:

 E08, E12, E24, E26, E38.

Short description: Study of the genres in literature in Spanish language

Subjects covered by the module

• Subject 1: Genres in Spanish literature: the theatre

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject:1. Theoretical aspects of dramatic art

2. Approach to the basic history of performing art.
3. Reading and analysis of theatrical texts in the Spanish language and specific performances.

 

• Subject 2: Genres in Spanish literature: the narrative

ECTS credits: 6

Type of sucject:

Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: 1. Theoretical aspects in relation to narrative genres and subgenres.2. Reading and analysis of narrative texts in the Spanish language and their historical contextualization.

 

• Subject 3: Genres in Spanish-language literature: poetry

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: 1. Theoretical aspects in relation to poetic genres and subgenres. 2. Reading and analysis of poetic texts in the Spanish language and their historical contextualization.

 

Table 3. Description and contents of Module M4

Module: Spanish language and linguistic variation

ECTS: 18

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1

Specific Competences of Degree:

E02, E03, E05. E09, E10, E11, E16, E24, E25, E27, E28, E33, E38, E41.

Short description: Study of the diafasic, diatopic and diastric varieties of Spanish from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

Subjects covered by the module

• Subject 1: Spanish of America

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of subject:

Historical description and analysis, based on the different theories that are used on the subject, of the various linguistic and extralinguistic factors involved in the formation of American Spanish. Study of the current linguistic situation of American Spanish, based on the synchronic description of its dialects, proposals for dialectal division and recent studies that place the American modality as a focus of dissemination of the language.

 

• Subject 2: Colloquial Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Identification of colloquial Spanish in the continuum of varieties of use of the language, characterization of the colloquial register and knowledge of methodology and techniques of analysis in studies on colloquial Spanish (recording techniques transcription and data collection, colloquial text analysis).

 

• Subject 3: Hispanic dialectology

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Study of the evolution of the discipline, its object of study and its working methods. Analysis of the causes of the formation of the different Romance languages and dialects and typology description of the Neo-Latin languages. Description, from a historical and synchronic perspective, of the main dialectal features of the different varieties of Spanish.

 

Table 4. Description and contents of Module M5

Module: Description of the Spanish language

ECTS: 30

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1

Specific Degree Competences:

E02, E03, E05, E10, E11, E16, E24, E25, E28, E33, E38, E41

Short description: Study of phonology, phonetics, morphology and descriptive syntax of Spanish from the synchronic and diachronic point of view.

Subjects covered by the module

• Subject 1: Spanish descriptive phonetics and phonology

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Articulatory and acoustic description of the systematic units of the sounds of Spanish, as well as the normative and speech manifestations of such units.

 

• Subject 2: Descriptive morphology of Spanish       

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Compulsory

Brief description of subject: Description and analysis of linguistic or grammatical categories and the criteria for their delimitation, definition and classification. Description and analysis of the rules and procedures in word formation in Spanish.

 

• Subject 3: Spanish descriptive syntax

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Description of the syntax of current Spanish. Application of the knowledge of this description to strengthen the communicative competence of the student.

 

• Subject 4: Historical phonetics and phonology       

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Diachronic study of language in which the main phenomena of phonetic-phonological evolution from Latin to modern Spanish are addressed.

 

• Subject 5: Historical morphology and syntax

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: A diachronic study of language in which the main lines of morphosyntactic evolution from Latin to modern Spanish are addressed.

 

Table 5. Description and contents of Module M6

Module: History and texts of literature in the Spanish language I

ECTS: 30

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1

Specific Competences of Degree:

E01, E03,  E05, E13, E25

Module specific competences:

E06, E08, E12, E24, E26, E38

Short description:  Study of Spanish literature in its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day

Subjects covered by the module

 

• Subject 1: Medieval Spanish Literature

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of subject:

Basic notions for the study of medieval literature. The popular and traditional lyric in the Hispanic Middle Ages. The medieval epic romance. The poem of Mio Cid.

 

The poetry of clerical character. Gonzalo de Berceo. The poems of debate. The medieval theater. El Auto de los Reyes Magos. The beginnings of medieval prose: the thirteenth century. Medieval storytelling. The work of Alfonso X the Wise. Poetry in the fourteenth century. The decline of the clergy. El Libro del Buen Amor and the Rimado de Palacio. The prose of the three hundred. Don Juan Manuel y El Conde Lucanor. Poetry in the fifteenth century. The poetry of Cancionero. Jorge Manrique. The Romancero. Prose in the 15th century. Books of chivalry. Sentimental fiction. Travel books. Didactic-doctrinal prose. The theater in the fifteenth century. The Celestina.

 

• Subject 2: Spanish Literature of the Golden Ages

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Basic concepts: renaissance, mannerism, baroque, golden century(s). Poetry in the renaissance. From songbook poetry to new poetry. Garcilaso de la Vega. The poetic schools. Fray Luis de León and Fernando de Herrera. Mystical poetry: San Juan de la Cruz. Narrative genres in the Renaissance. El Lazarillo de Tormes. The didactic and essay genres. Spiritual literature and erasmism in the origins of the essay. Teresa of Jesus. Baroque poetry. Baroque classicism, culturalism and conceptism. Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo.

The narrative genres. Picaresca and its evolution. El Buscón de Quevedo. cervantes and its literary projection. El Quijote. Birth of the national theater: the Spanish comedy of Lope de Vega a Calderón. Dogmatic prose . Baltasar Gracián and El discreto. Other genres.

 

• Subject 3: Spanish literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Illustration in Spain. The birth of the press and essay. Feijoo and José Cadalso. Poetry in the xviii. The theatre. Popular genres. Neoclassical tragedy and comedy. Bourgeois drama and sentimental comedy. Leandro Fernández de Moratín. The illustrated and sentimental novel. Short narrative genres. Travel literature and utopias. Personal literature: autobiographies, diaries and epistles. Spanish literature at the time of the war of independence and the Cortes de Cádiz. Spanish literature in the first half of the nineteenth century: romanticism. Romantic poetry. José de Espronceda. From romantic drama to costumbrista comedy. José Zorrilla. The romantic costumbrismo and journalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travel and monumental literature. Mariano José de Larra. The novel and other narrative genres in the first half of the nineteenth century. Introduction to Spanish literature of the second half of the 19th century: realism and naturalism. Poetry in the realist era: from the last romantics to Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Rosalía de Castro. Realist poetry. The realist novel. Galdós, Clarín and Emilia Pardo Bazán. Theatre in the second half of the 19th century: from high comedy to the boy genre. Philosophical, scientific and didactic prose. Journalism.

 

• Subject 4: Spanish literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries   

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Elective

Brief description of subject:

The silver age (1890-1939). The golden age of Spanish essay. From Miguel de Unamuno to José Ortega y Gasset. Spanish poetry from modernism to the civil war. Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, explorations of the 27th generation. The renewal of the narrative. Miguel de Unamuno, Pío Baroja and José Martínez Ruiz Azorín. The theatrical world and dramatic genres from modernism to civil war. Ramón del Valle-Inclán. Federico García Lorca.Spanish literature during the franquist period. Writing in Spain and in exile. Spanish poetry between 1940 and 1975. The narrative genres between 1940 and 1975. Camilo José Cela. The theatre between 1940 and 1975. Antonio Buero Vallejo. Spanish literature of the transition to democracy. Trends in Spanish poetry from the 80s to today. Trends of the Spanish narrative from the 80s to today. Trends of the Spanish theater from the 80s to today. Other genres: autobiographies and memoirs, travel books, etc.

 

 

• Subject 5: Contemporary Hispanic-American Literature

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject: Elective

 

Brief description of subject:

Modernism and the irradiation of a new sensibility. The modernist poetry. josé martíy Rubén Darío. Postmodernism. Female voices in poetry. The first vanguard: Huidobro, Vallejo and Neruda. Negrismo y antipoesía: Nicolas Guillén y Nicanor Parra. The Spanish-American poetry of the last years. From the modernist prose to the mundonovista literature. The novel of the mexican revolution. Novel and telourism. The indigenous narrative. The consolidation of urban narrative: the “boom” or new Hispanic-American narrative. Introduction to some representative authors. Magical realisms: Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier. The second generation of the “boom”: Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa. The Hispanic-American narrative of the end of the century, current trends. Introduction to contemporary Hispanic-American theatre.

 

Table 6. Description and contents of Module M7

Module: History and texts of literature in Spanish II

ECTS: 12

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1

Specific Degree Competences:

E01, E03, E05, E25

Module Specific Competences:

E06, E08, E12, E13,  E24, E26, E29, E38

Short description: Study of Hispanic literature up to the 19th century; study of book history up to the present day.

Subjects covered by the module

Subject 1:  Introduction to Spanish-American literature

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject: Elective

Brief description of subject:

Process of formation of the Hispanic-American literature. The literary currents in Hispanoamerica. Periodization. The vernacular cultures of America. Indigenous literatures. Conquest writing. Cultural budgets of the Renaissance and discovery of America. C. Columbus. Chronicles of the Indies. History and literature. Hernán Cortés, Bartolomé de las Casas, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bernal Díaz del Castillo and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Epic poetry. Alonso de Ercilla. Viceregal Order and literature. Poetry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Theater in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. Literature of the 18th century. Neoclassicism. Creole thought in the 18th century. The 19th century. Independence and literature. The enlightened bases of emancipation. Simón Bolívar and Andrés Bello. Romanticism. The formation of national literatures. Poetry in the nineteenth century. Gauchesca poetry. José Hernández y el Martín Fierro. The romantic narrative. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Realism and naturalism.

 

• Subject 2: History of books and reading in Spain   

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of subject:

 Introduction: writing and its first material supports. The book. Reading and writing in Greece and Rome. The book in Spain. The time of the manuscript. The copyists. Book and readers From high to low middle age. The humanist reader. The printing press. Its introduction in Spain. Incunables. The circuit of writing and publishing in the Modern Age. The book and religious reforms. Morphology of the old printed book. Book and readers between Europe and America. The “revolution” of reading in the 18th century. Institutions related to reading: loan libraries and literary societies. Illustration printers. The book in the contemporary era: from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

 

Table 7. Description and contents of Module M8

Module: Romance Philology

ECTS: 6

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1

Specific Competences of Degree:

E01, E13, E24, E29, E33

Module specific competences:

E14, E30

Short description: A study of literature in Romance languages from a comparative perspective.

Subjects covered by the module

• Subject 1: Romance literature

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:  Elective

Brief description of the subject: This is the study of European literature in Romance language, with a comparative perspective. We will analyze through commentaries of texts, the connection points of the whole literary family romanesque, from the medieval period to the repercussion of the topics in later literatures. The student will thus understand the phenomenon of European cultural cohesion throughout the process of gestation of the various national literatures. It is basic for the training of the Hispanic philologist, since Spanish literature is part of the Romanesque literary family.

 

Table 8. Description and contents of Module M9

Module: Semantic and discursive aspects of Spanish

ECTS: 12

Competences:

Core Competencies: those listed in section 3.1

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1

Specific Degree Competences:

E02, E03, E05, E10, E16, E24, E25, E28, E31, E33,

Short description: Study of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of current Spanish

Subjects covered by the module

• Subject 1: Lexical and orational semantics of Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

  Elective

Brief description of the subject: Lexical and orational semantics of Spanish is a subject in which all those issues that are related to the semantic study of language are addressed, either at the lexical level or at the orational level. With respect to the first of the levels, we will study the significant particularities of the lexicon in Spanish, as well as its particular structure in our language. In the orational semantics block, we intend to deepen the functional mechanisms (syntactic and semantic) of Spanish for the constitution of the traditionally called sentences, whether considered as units of language or speech in Spanish.

• Subject 2: Spanish pragmatics

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of subject:

 Main theories for the pragmatic analysis of oral and written texts. Main applications to the concrete analysis of Spanish. Application of pragmatic analysis to advertising texts in Spanish. Study of the relationship between teaching Spanish as a second language and pragmatics.

 

Table 9. Description and subjects of Module M10

 

 

Module: PRACTICUM/SEMINARY

 

ECTS: 6

Competences:

Basic Competences: Those listed in section 3.1

Entrepreneurial Competences:

CE01, CE02, CE03

Generic competences:

G03, G07, G09, G10, G12

Module Specific Competences:

E42, E43, E44

Short description: Seminar or workshop/company internships

Subjects of the module

• Subject 1: Seminar on the professional opportunities of the Bachelor’s Degree

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject: Compulsory

Subject 1: Work placement

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject: Compulsory

Brief description of the subject:

Subject 1: Seminar on the professional opportunities of the degree.

The content of the seminar will be determined each academic year. The areas on which the degree depends (particularly Spanish Language and Spanish Literature) will offer seminars/workshops for the development of activities related to documentation techniques, research methods, text editing, etc. In each case, the participation of professionals from the different work applications of the degree as lecturers is recommended.

• Subject 2: Company internships

Specific activities specific to the work of a specialist in Hispanic Philology in a related institution or company. Analysis of the formal and informal aspects of professional practice. Learning about the integration of theoretical and practical contents.

 

Table 10. Description and subjects of Module M11

 

Module: FINAL DEGREE PROJECT

 

ECTS: 6

Competences:

Basic competences: Those stated in section 3.1

Generic competences:

G01, G02, G03, G06, G07, G08, G09

Degree specific competences:

E03, E05, E24, E25

Module specific competences:

E42, E43, E44

Brief description: Completion of a Final Degree Project.

Subjects that make up the module

• Subject 1: Work on a free subject chosen by the student and defined by the assigned tutor.

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject: Compulsory

Brief description of the subject: Its content should conform to the following parameters:

– Definition and justification of the subject.

– State of the question in the field in which the research is to be carried out.

– Objectives and hypotheses of the work.

– Delimitation and description of the methodology.

– Description of the study corpus.

– Conclusions based on the objectives.

– Bibliographical references.

 

Table 11. Description and subjects of Module M12

 

Module: LINGUISTIC RESEARCH, PLANNING AND CONSULTANCY (Itinerary I)

 

ECTS: 30

Competences:

Basic Competences: those listed in section 3.1.

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1.

Degree specific competences:

E03, E05, E09, E10, E25.

Module specific competences:

E15, E16, E17, E18, E19, E24, E32, E33, E34, E35, E36, E40.

Short description: Linguistic research and counselling

Subjects covered in the module

• Subject 1: Spanish language policy and planning

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

  Elective

Brief description of the subject: Study of the main theoretical concepts that are handled in relation to language planning processes, their models and techniques of analysis, in their application to Spanish.

 

• Subject 2: Communication and types of discourse in Spanish.

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of the subject: Notion of discourse. Relationship between the concepts of discourse and text. Current trends in discourse analysis. Study of the conditions of discourse production (oral and written) in Spanish. Analysis of the factors that determine textual coherence and cohesion in Spanish.

 

• Subject 3: Spanish language literature and cinema

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

  Elective

Brief description of the subject:

Introduction to the different historical-cultural contexts that can be distinguished in the Spanish and/or Latin American spheres in relation to literature and film. Theoretical foundations for film analysis. Proposal of a model of analysis. Problems of literature-cinema transcoding and vice versa. Adaptations of literary texts to film. Typology of adaptations. Emblematic works of Spanish literature adapted to the cinema. Writers and cinema. Writers who soundtrack silent films and write dialogue, adapt, write scripts and direct. Writers as film critics in the press. Relations between literature, film and genre. Film as a literary subject. Technical influences of cinema on literary works and cinema in cultural mediation.

 

• Subject 4: Andalusian literary heritage.

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of the subject:

History and concept of Cultural Heritage. Specific heritages: Intangible heritage and documentary and bibliographic heritage. Legal and administrative framework. Funds, institutions and management tools. Approach to the history and cultural diversity of Andalusia through the literary fact from the documented origins to the present day. Written heritage and oral tradition heritage. Heritage reconstruction in relation to gender. The gaze of the other: travellers through Andalusia. Relations between Andalusia and Latin America.

 

• Subject 5: Philosophical questions of language and literature.

 

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of the subject:

 The linguistic turn: analytical tradition, hermeneutic tradition and critical tradition.  The discursive level of the literary, historical narrative and scientific description: differences and similarities.  The literary construction of experience: individual trajectory, literary field.  The structure of the literary field.

 

Table 12. Description and subjects of Module M13

 

Module: Teaching and publishing (Itinerary II)

 

ECTS: 30

Competences:

Basic competences: those stated in section 3.1.

Generic competences: those listed in section 3.1.

Degree Specific Competences:

E03, E05, E25

Module Specific Competences:

E13, E20, E21, E22, E23, E29, E33, E37, E38, E39, E40, E41

Short description: Teaching and publishing

Subjects included in the module:

 

• Subject 1: Spanish as L2

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

  Elective

Brief description of the subject: A study of the main theoretical concepts of the most competent methods in L2 teaching, their applications and their evaluation according to the development of the teaching-learning process.

 

• Subject 2: Spanish Language and Literature in Secondary Education

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of the subject: Study of the regulatory aspects and curricular design governing secondary education in Spain, especially in the Andalusian Community. Study and critical analysis of the linguistic and literary contents and the modalities of programming at this level of education. Application of this knowledge to the teaching profession.

 

• Subject 3: Spanish Language and Literature in the publishing world.

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

  Elective

Brief description of the subject: Culture and market: the publishing world. The trajectory of the book from the author to the reader. Authors and translators. The Spanish legal framework: intellectual property law and the publishing contract. Print runs and publishing on demand. The literary agent as a cultural mediator. The concepts and applications of publishing lines. Sources for the knowledge of books for sale in the Spanish market (editorial bulletins, book fairs, catalogues, professional magazines). The publishing business: profit-loss compensation policies. Criteria and practice of pre-selection and reading of originals. Book formats (paperback, hardback, pocket, large format). The Spanish market and its sectors: Spain, Southern Cone, Mexico, Andean Pact, USA. The large publishing groups and independent imprints in the Spanish-speaking world. Book production: layout, notions of typography and graphic design, proofs, writing back covers and flaps as sales strategies, book materials. The external trades (reading, correction, layout, etc.). Desktop publishing. Electronic publishing and new media. Distribution and marketing. The life of the book: from the shop window to the stock, the balance and recycling. Promotion and sales strategies. The role of critics in magazines and supplements, and the media.

 

• Subject 4: Spanish literature and cultural management.

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Brief description of the subject:

 The integral concept of Cultural Heritage. Legal regime of cultural heritage and cultural deposit centres in Spain. Copyright and intellectual property.

Cultural policies and models of protection, conservation and promotion of cultural heritage. Institutional frameworks. Cultural policy: EU-European, national, regional and local policies. Public and private initiatives. Access to and dissemination of culture: mass culture or cultural elitism. Marketing and cultural policies. Cultural sponsorship in Andalusia: the Andalusian Ministry of Culture and other ministries, the C.A.L., libraries and archives, municipal and other cultural foundations, author’s foundations, the vice-rectorates of university extension, private associations, etc.

Cultural programming: conferences, meetings with writers or creators, book presentations, seminars, conferences, congresses, exhibitions, fairs.

Literary workshops in cultural mediation: reading, writing, theatre, storytelling, cultural animation workshops.

 

• Subject 5: Linguistic and intercultural mediation

ECTS credits: 6

Type of subject:

Elective

Short description of the subject: Multiculturality and interculturality. Interculturality and non-verbal communication. Theoretical, descriptive and methodological bases of linguistic and intercultural mediation. Critical Discourse Analysis as an interdisciplinary methodology and analytical tool. Linguistic and intercultural mediation in various fields: clinical, legal, forensic, commercial, business and educational.

 

The present Report sets out the commitment to teach the Modules and Subjects that are indicated, which will be articulated at all times by means of the subjects determined by the Governing Council of the University of Cadiz.

 

The subjects that form part of the basic subjects of the degree are detailed below. The following table contains the name and ECTS of the subjects that form part of each of the basic subjects of the degree (M1).

 

MODULE 1 (PATHWAY 1): RESEARCH, PLANNING AND LINGUISTIC CONSULTANCY

 

1. Andalusian literary heritage
2. Spanish language literature and cinema
3. Language policy and planning in Spanish
4. Communication and types of discourse in Spanish
5. Philosophical issues in language and literature.

MODULE 2 (ITINERARY 2): TEACHING AND PUBLISHING

 

1. Spanish as an L2
2. Spanish Language and Literature in Secondary Education
3. Spanish Language and Literature in the Publishing World
4. Spanish literature and cultural management
5. Linguistic and intercultural mediation

 

The subject ‘Practicum’ is compulsory and can be taken for 6 credits in the fourth year. They will be offered in accordance with the subscription of the appropriate agreements with companies and administrations. Students who take them will be awarded 6 compulsory credits from the Internship. The Faculty will organise and evaluate external placements so that they are a real learning space and an introduction for students to the professional world. Finally, for those students who have not had the possibility of recognising these credits, a practical workshop/seminar on the professional opportunities of the Degree is also offered.

 

In order to be able to register for the Final Degree Project, students must have passed 60 credits of basic training and 114 of compulsory training. Students must complete and present a dissertation in which they demonstrate the skills associated with the degree and which they have acquired over the years of study. The tutoring of this work will be in charge of the teaching staff of the University of Cadiz involved in the teaching of the degree in Hispanic Philology.

 

Mobility programmes (Erasmus, Socrates, etc.) are optional. They will be offered to a large number of students, which the Faculty will maintain and, as far as possible, increase year after year throughout the implementation of the syllabus in accordance with the signing of the appropriate agreements with Universities all over the world. An information session will be held every year for all first year students on the interest and conditions of mobility programmes (further information on mobility is given in point 5.2).

 

1.2.2. Temporal sequencing of the curriculum

 

The distribution of the subjects into courses and semesters reflects the organisation of the offer by the centre, but it is of an orientative nature for the student, who may take these credits at the time he/she deems appropriate and with the distribution he/she wishes, but always subject to the general limitations imposed by the University and those contemplated in this report.

 

In view of the above, the proposed teaching schedule is as follows:

 

 

 

ELECTIVE (ITINERARIES)

 

Table 14. Subjects belonging to the subject of basic training MODERN LANGUAGE I

 

Title of course: MODERN LANGUAGE I

ECTS: 12

Type of course: Basic Training

courses that compose it (to choose two courses corresponding to a single language among those offered by the Centre).

 

Table 15. Subjects belonging to the Basic Training subject LITERATURE

 

 

 

 

 

Table 16. Subjects pertaining to the Basic Training subject LINGUISTICS

 

 

 

Table 17. Subjects belonging to the Basic Training subject LANGUAGE

 

 

 

Table 18. Subjects pertaining to the Basic Training subject CLASSICAL LANGUAGE

 

 

 

Table 19. Subjects belonging to the Basic Training subject COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

 

 

 

 

Table 20. Subjects pertaining to the Basic Training subject CRITICAL THINKING, DISCUSSION AND ARGUMENTATION

 

 

 

Table 21. Subjects belonging to the Basic Training subject INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE IN SPANISH LANGUAGE

 

 

 

Table 22. Subjects belonging to the Basic Training subject CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY AND LITERATURE

 

 

1.3. Degree coordination mechanisms

 

As a whole, the proposed modules constitute a coherent and feasible proposal, guaranteeing the acquisition of the degree’s competences. In order to achieve the development of the competences proposed within the framework of the EHEA, various teaching-learning activities will be developed, including: theory class, practical class, practical-theoretical class, theoretical-practical class, debate, exhibition, seminar, specialised individual tutoring, specialised group tutoring and non-face-to-face activities. To this end, regular meetings will be held between the degree coordinator and the teaching team in order to permanently ensure horizontal (within an academic year) and vertical (throughout the different academic years) coordination of the subjects involved in the degree, in terms of the design, type and relationship of the activities designed. The assessment systems will also be extended to include, in addition to the final exam, student participation in face-to-face activities, as well as the preparation and/or presentation of work supervised by the lecturer.