• Mode: research and professional 
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in Advanced Studies of Catalan Language, Literature and Culture
• Places available: 20
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University

Compulsory student mobility: no

Presentation

The aim of the Master's Degree is to train specialists in advanced language management in the fields of traditional written, oral and audiovisual communication, as well as in the information and communication technologies (ICT). The course will also prepare students for other professional opportunities: language teaching, language consultancy and correction, language planning, multilingual management, editorial work, literary criticism and cultural management of the written and oral literary heritage that has a direct connection with the URV's territorial sphere of influence in the general Catalan cultural framework.

The Master's Degree also aims to introduce students to the world of research and train researchers to do their doctoral thesis and join advanced projects and programmes in accordance with the research lines of the groups connected to the Department of Catalan Literature.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree coruses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it). 

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan

- Language correction and consultancy
- Techniques of literary expression
- Language planning
- Studies of particular issues in Catalan literature
- Research into management of the oral heritage
- Discourse strategies
- Literary criticism
- Theory and criticism of the scenic arts
- Mythology and contemporary culture
- Experimental phonetics: techniques and laboratory work
- Classical culture and Catalan culture
- Research seminars
- Women, culture and languages
- Theory and history of typographic writing
- Survival and current state of Latin culture
- Present Catalan literature
- Workshops
- Practicum
- Master's thesis

Modes

- Professional
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Dr. Jordi Ginebra  Department of Catalan Studies (Faculty of Arts)  977 559 752  jordi.ginebra(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the Faculty of Arts  977 559 513 capsfll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme
• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents 
• Frequently-Asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad