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BACHELOR DEGREE IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

The student who takes this 3-year degree will attain a solid knowledge in the Humanities (Language, Linguistics, Literature and Culture) which, allied to a practical and professionalizing component, prepares him/her to work in the areas such as culture, media, editorial supervision, content creation, translation.

In articulation with an appropriate master's courses, it prepares students for teaching in Primary and Secondary Education.

The course has the following variants:

Major English - Minor German or Spanish or French

(Deputy Coordinator: Professor Orquídea Conceição Lima Ferreira Maia Santos Cadilhe - ocadilhe@elach.uminho.pt)


Major Portuguese - Minor English or German or Spanish or French

(Deputy Coordinator: Professor Ana Maria Silva Ribeiro -anar@elach.uminho.pt)


In the 2026/2027 academic year, the English monolingual variant will not be offered.

Curso
2026/2027

General

Academic degree:
  • Bachelor (Bologna 1st cycle degree)
ECTS:
180
Duration:
6 curricular semesters
Regime:
Daytime
Place:
Gualtar Campus, Braga (UM)
Main Scientific area:
  • Languages and Literatures

Contacts

    School of Arts and Humanities
    Campus de Gualtar
    4710 - 057 Braga
    Tel: +351253604173 Fax:
    E-Mail: pedagogico@elach.uminho.pt
    URL: http://www.elach.uminho.pt

Description

The undergraduate course European Languages and Literatures, with bilingual branches, provides solid training in the Arts, in two study areas - Language I (Major Portuguese/English) and Language II (Minor English/German/French/Spanish), in the subareas: (i) Language and Linguistics; (ii) Literature and Culture.
The Monolingual branch provides a solid training in English Studies: English, N. American and Irish Language, Linguistics, Literature and Culture.
The Course in general aims to develop the skills of collecting, selecting, interpreting and communicating relevant information, particularly in the Humanities area.
The options provide competencies that facilitate integration in the workplace, multicultural cooperation and ICT competencies.
The solid training in the Humanities, coupled with a professionalizing component, qualifies students in the culture, media, editorial supervision areas, as well as the culture and content creation, translating and preservation of patrimony industries.
Articulated with 2nd cycle courses, it qualifies students for teaching in primary and secondary schools.

Key learning outcomes

The student attending this degree (in the Bologna model) will obtain a solid and versatile training in the Humanities, through a strong theoretical component in the areas of language, linguistics, literature and culture - Portuguese, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian (options), allowing him/her to develop a series of fundamental skills for an increasingly globalized and multicultural job market.
This theoretical training is combined with a more practical and professionalizing component, with a view to the development of professionals with relevant technical skills today, as is the case with information technologies.

Access to higher education

The course provides a multidisciplinary basis, allowing students to embark on more traditional professional pathways, through Masters in Teaching or Translation, and new pathways linked to the Digital Humanities - 2nd cycle courses related to the creation of digital content in the areas of the Humanities.

Careers

This degree provides qualifications for the exercise of professional activity in the fields of the media, in the context of multilingualism and multiculturalism, cultural advice within the central and local administrations, editorial supervision, the cultural or content industry, and translation.
In conjunction with 2nd cycle courses (masters), the degree qualifies students for teaching in the area of languages (Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French) in Basic and Secondary education.
For students who want to pursue advanced studies in the Humanities, either at the master's or doctoral levels, the training acquired in the course constitutes an added value to support the research developed in Centres.

Access

80

Vacancies

0

Minimum

Access forms

The access to this Cycle of Studies can be done through the following ways:
- Application for National Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Local Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Access to Higher Education Admissions through Re-Entry, Change and Transfer of Course.

Formal requirements

Entrance Testing

One of the following sets:
18 Portuguese
or
13 English
or
13 English
18 Portuguese
or
08 French
13 English
or
05 Spanish
13 English
or
01 German
13 English
or
13 English
15 Portuguese Literature
or
08 French
18 Portuguese

This information must be verified on
http://www.dges.gov.pt/guias/detcursopi.asp?codc=9195&code=1000

Recommended requirements

Not applicable.

Aditional Information

Study Plan

Regime Curricular Unit Scientific Area ECTS
Year 1 60
S1 Communication Technologies in Humanities HD 6
S1 English B2.1 LPLE 5
S1 Introduction to Language Sciences CLing 7
S1 Introduction to the Study of Literature CL 7
S1 Língua II.1 5
French A1.1 LPLE 5
French A2.1 LPLE 5
S2 English B2.2 LPLE 5
S2 English Culture 1 CCul 5
S2 English Linguistics 1 CLing 5
S2 English Literature 1 CL 5
S2 French Language and Culture 1 CL; CCul 5
S2 Língua II.2 5
French A1.2 LPLE 5
French A2.2 LPLE 5
Year 2 60
S1 English C1.1 LPLE 5
S1 English Culture 2 CCul 5
S1 English Linguistics 2 CLing 5
S1 English Literature 2 CL 5
S1 French Literature and Culture 2 CL; CCul 5
S1 Língua II.3 5
French A2.1 LPLE 5
French B1.1 LPLE 5
S2 English C1.2 LPLE 5
S2 English Linguistics 3 CLing 5
S2 English Literature 3 CL 5
S2 French Literature and Culture 3 CL; CCul 5
S2 Língua II.4 5
French A2.2 LPLE 5
French B1.2 LPLE 5
S2 Opção UMinho 5
Bioethics ECS 6
Collaboration for a Sustainable Development in the Digitalization Era EGI 6
Crime, Deviance and Control SOC 6
Education and Interpersonal Development in the University Context CEd 6
Fundamentals and Practices of First Aid ENF 6
Governance and Public Private Partnerships CA 6
Leadership and Entrepreneurship EIS 6
Mathematics Behind Things M 6
Occupational Safety and Health EH 6
Photographic Literacy from Physics to Message Fis 6
Political Issues in the History of the Present Time H 6
Preparing Generation Z Beyond Technologies ENG 6
Principles of Economics E 6
Sport and Health EF 6
Year 3 60
S1 English C2.1 LPLE 5
S1 English Linguistics 4 CLing 5
S1 English Literature 4 CL 5
S1 French Literature and Culture 4 CL; CCul 5
S1 Língua II.5 5
French B1.1 LPLE 5
French B2.1 LPLE 5
S1 Opção 1 5
Culture in the Media CCul 5
Education, School and Society CEd 5
Themes in Non-Native Portuguese CLing 5
Topics in Digital Humanities HD 5
S2 English C2.2 LPLE 5
S2 English Literature 5 CL 5
S2 French Literature and Culture 5 CL; CCul 5
S2 North American Literature and Culture 1 CL; CCul 5
S2 Língua II.6 5
French B1.2 LPLE 5
French B2.2 LPLE 5
S2 Opção 2 5
German A1.2 LPLE 5
Comparative Literature CL 5
Contemporary Political Paradigms F 5
Conversational Analysis CLing 5
Creative Writing in English CL 5
Current Perspectives on Language Teaching CEd 5
Electronic Editing Techniques HD 5
French A1.2 LPLE 5
Galician Literature and Culture CL; CCul 5
Hermeneutics F 5
Introduction to Marketing G 5
Italian A1.2 LPLE 5
Italian A2.1 LPLE 5
Language and Publicity CLing 5
Literature and Cinema CL 5
Logic and Argumentation Theories F 5
Russian A1.2 LPLE 5
Russian Culture CCul 5
Spanish A2.1 LPLE 5
Themes of Literature and Contemporary Hispanic Culture CL; CCul 5
Travel Literature CL 5

Assessment/Accreditation

A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
04-11-2021
A3ES deliberation:
https://si.a3es.pt/sia3es/page?stage=ConsultaPublicaProcesso&processID=21612
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-Ef 2436/2011/AL01
Registry Date:
14-04-2022
Accreditation validity:
31-07-2027