Master's Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures
Academic year 2025-26
Please see the information in the new curriculum for this master's programme starting in the 2025-26 academic year.
If you started before the 2025-26 academic year, please see the corresponding version or the curriculum adaptation process.
If you started before the 2025-26 academic year, please see the corresponding version or the curriculum adaptation process.
See the pre-registration, admission and registration deadlines for the 2025-26 academic year for this master's programme.
In order to be awarded the master's degree, students shall pass 60 credits as follows:
- 45 credits from one of the learning pathways
- 15 credits from the master's thesis linked to the selected pathway.
Students must select one of the following pathways:
- Literary and Cultural Studies. Students must pass the following credits for this pathway:
- 15 credits from the mandatory elective subjects for the pathway: 11140, 11141 and 11142
- * 30 credits from the elective subjects for the pathway.
- Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Students must pass the following credits for this pathway:
- 15 credits from the mandatory elective subjects for the pathway: 11170, 11171 and 11172
- * 30 credits from the elective subjects for the pathway.
* Furthermore, the programme enables students to combine their selected specialisation with more general training in modern languages and literatures by taking two subjects from the other pathway. For example, students on the 'Literary and Cultural Studies' pathway may, at most, take two subjects from the 'Theoretical and Applied Linguistics' pathway, and vice versa. These subjects may be selected from elective or mandatory elective subjects on each pathway.
| Name | Type | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12148 - Master's Thesis | Master's Thesis | 15,0 | 2nd semester |
| 12146 - Morphosyntax and Acquisition in First and Second Languages, and Bilingual Contexts | Elective | 5,0 | 2nd semester |
Cultural and Literary Studies
- Mallorca
| Name | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|
| 11140 - Research Techniques in Literary and Cultural Studies | 5,0 | |
| 11141 - Techniques for Composition Writing and Literary Interpretation | 5,0 | |
| 11142 - Beyond the Bounds of Literary Rules: New Perspectives in Literary and Cultural Studies | 5,0 | |
| 11146 - The American Way(s) of Life. 21st-Century US Cultures and Literature | 5,0 | |
| 11147 - Golden Age Religious Preaching and Humanism | 5,0 | |
| 11161 - Comparative Literature: Themes, Myths and Motifs | 5,0 | |
| 11168 - Monographic Seminar on Literary and Cultural Specialisation I | 5,0 | |
| 11143 - Classical Tradition in Literature | 5,0 | 1st semester |
| 11148 - Juan Ramón Jiménez and 20th-Century Poetic Renewal | 5,0 | 1st semester |
| 12144 - Feminism and Globalisation: Literature, Culture and Society in the English-Speaking World | 5,0 | 2nd semester |
| 12149 - Between Language and Culture: An Introduction to Literary Translation | 5,0 | 2nd semester |
| 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 | |
| 11160 - Intertextual Analysis | 5,0 | |
| 11165 - Short Plays from the Spanish Golden Age | 5,0 | |
| 11169 - Monographic Seminar on Literary and Cultural Specialisation II | 5,0 | |
| 12139 - Masks, Paradoxes and Fragments in Hispanic-Portuguese Literature | 5,0 | |
| 12140 - Globalisation, Technology and Cultural Production | 5,0 | |
| 12141 - Literature and Visual Culture | 5,0 | |
| 12142 - Gender Crossroads in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Narrative | 5,0 | |
| 12143 - Contemporary Spanish Poetics | 5,0 | |
| 12145 - From Page to Stage: Theatre Performances in the Spanish Golden Age | 5,0 | |
| 12150 - Orality and Writing: Opposition and Interference | 5,0 |