| Branch | Art and Humanities | |
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| Duration | Four academic years | |
| ECTS credits | 240 Basic subjects: 60 (16 of which correspond to a stay abroad); compulsory subjects: 112; optional subjects: 60; end-of-degree project/dissertation: 8 |
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| Languages | English, French, German or Catalan sign language (depending on the subject). Students are recommended to have at least level B1 for their first language and A2 for their second, according to the Common European Reference Framework for languages. |
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| Timetables | First year, morning; second year, afternoon; third year, morning and fourth year, afternoon. If you meet the established requisites (family, professional, etc. reasons) you may apply to attend part time. | |
| Places | 60 | |
| Price of first year | € 1,425 | |
| Organised by | Faculty of Translation and Interpretation |
The degree in Applied Languages trains professionals qualified to manage multilingual communication, who are specialised in the field of employment. It leads to a command of the student's own languages and foreign languages, both in the most important verbal areas (writing, correcting, editing, translating, oral expression and cultural mediation) and in handling resources (terminology and documentation management, applied computing, data gathering and processing methods), and reflection on language. The degree enables holders to specialise in any of the following areas: educational environments (learning and teaching languages), business environments (management of specialised multilingual communication), social environments (cultural mediation, linguistic normalisation), description and comparison of languages (both the student's own and foreign languages) and technological applications (development and management of computer programmes applied to linguistic tasks). In short, this interdisciplinary degree course provides the skills required for working as a linguistic technician in institutions and businesses in various areas, press offices, communication departments, text editing, cultural mediation work and language teaching.
The degree in Applied Languages is a qualification that adapts to the characteristics of society today, which is increasingly multilingual, global and digital. Although it has been on offer in other European countries for several years, this degree course is new in Spain. First, unlike traditional philology studies, this degree provides training in the productive and receptive field in two or more languages so that graduates are able to work in professional environments in which multilingualism is an essential feature. Second, unlike Linguistics or the Humanities, the degree in Applied Languages adopts a highly practical approach, focusing on the communication problems of today. Third, unlike the Translation degree course, which focuses basically on the practice of translation, this degree is more diversified in terms of the work done in linguistics: it not only includes translation work, but also covers the writing, correcting and editing of texts, project management, terminology management, cultural mediation, etc. In short, the degree in Applied Languages provides multilingual, interdisciplinary and practical training for students interested in languages and their applications. It is a degree that fully meets the requirements of the European Higher Education Area (the Bologna Declaration) and is therefore officially valid throughout Europe.
Ability to reflect on how a language works