Catalan Language and Literature
Bachelor's degree in full-time or combined form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied as a single subject or in combination with another programme.
Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.
What will you learn?
The degree in Catalan Language and Literature is the entrance to the countries where Catalan is spoken. Through these studies, students can acquire knowledge about the Catalan language, culture and literature, at the same time that get the capacity of establishing connections between Catalonia, its language and literature, with the rest of the Romance languages and literatures. Apart from the lessons on practical language and specialized linguistic disciplines like phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, students receive courses on culture, reality and literature of the Catalan-speaking countries, i.e. Catalonia, Valencia, eastern Aragon, Andorra, Balearic islands and Alghero.
The degree cultivates both language skills and skills required in the fields of communication and communication technology, in translation or in government, and develops analytical skills, autonomy and creativity. By systematic training in the combination of practical language, professional linguistics and literature students will also learn the basic principles of standard written and oral expression in Catalan and Czech.
Practical training
Even though the study does not require mandatory internships, students have the opportunity to participate in a number of practical tasks during their bachelor's studies, for example in the organization of the department's cultural and professional events. Those interested can also travel to language or cultural institutions in Catalonia or elsewhere in Europe as part of practical Erasmus internships.
Further information
Career opportunities
A graduate of this study is capable of writing and speaking in Catalan and has social, political, cultural and historical knowledge of Catalonia and other territories where Catalan is spoken. The graduate also has knowledge of another Romance language and other Romanesque areas -of his own choosing. In addition to working in the field (translating, editorial, journalism...), graduates are qualified to work in professions that require the ability of independent and critical thinking and good communicative competences in both their mother tongue and Catalan.
Admission requirements
This programme is accredited in Czech and requires students to have a native-speaker or C1 knowledge of Czech or Slovak.
The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the oral Field of Study Examination. Applicants may also be admitted based on other criteria, see Admission without the Entrance Examination. The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University disregards the results of SCIO National Comparative Examinations.
You can file your e-applications for studies from 1 November to 28 February.
Field of Study Examinations will be held from 22 April to 27 April.
The date and time of the examination will be stated in the electronic invitation for the examination, which will be uploaded to your e-application. The faculty will not be sending paper invitations. Applicants applying for the major study plan and minor study plan in a combined study must comply with the conditions for admission into both plans.
Basic description of the Field of Study Examination:
The objective of the oral interview is to determine the applicant’s motivation for studying in this programme, general knowledge of the facts of life and institutions of the Catalan countries, and level of language thinking.
Length of the oral interview: 15 to 20 minutes.
Thematic topics of the interview:
The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the oral Field of Study Examination. Applicants may also be admitted based on other criteria, see Admission without the Entrance Examination. The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University disregards the results of SCIO National Comparative Examinations.
You can file your e-applications for studies from 1 November to 28 February.
Field of Study Examinations will be held from 22 April to 27 April.
The date and time of the examination will be stated in the electronic invitation for the examination, which will be uploaded to your e-application. The faculty will not be sending paper invitations. Applicants applying for the major study plan and minor study plan in a combined study must comply with the conditions for admission into both plans.
Learning Potential Test (TSP)
For admission for studies in this degree programme, you do not need to take the TSP.
Field of Study Examination
This examination is intended to check the applicants’ knowledge of the given field of study. It is done in the form of an oral interview.Basic description of the Field of Study Examination:
The objective of the oral interview is to determine the applicant’s motivation for studying in this programme, general knowledge of the facts of life and institutions of the Catalan countries, and level of language thinking.
Length of the oral interview: 15 to 20 minutes.
Thematic topics of the interview:
- motivation;
- basic information on the Catalan countries and Catalan language;
- life and institutions of the Catalan-speaking countries;
- language analysis of a sentence in Czech.
- language certificate level B1 or higher;
- secondary school results from profile subjects of Czech (Slovak) language, English, basics of social sciences and a fourth subject chosen by the applicant from the subjects offered by the faculty: Chinese, history, French, music, information technology, Italian, Latin, maths, German, Russian, Spanish.
Admission without the entrance examination
You may be exempt from the entrance examination based on at least one of the following criteria:Secondary school results may be applied for an exemption from the entrance examination by those applicants whose average grade was 1.5 or higher in each of the four profile subjects. The total average result in all subjects is not taken into consideration. Secondary school seminars are also disregarded. The average grade of each profile subject is calculated based on the results of the last four years of study in the following way: the mid-year grade is calculated from the final year, whereas the final grades are calculated from the previous three years. It is also necessary that applicants have studied each of the profile subjects for at least two years during the last four years.
Enter your grades in your e-application. Then print the grades out and let your secondary school certify them with a stamp and a signature. Upload the scan of the certified grades into your e-application. You can also upload officially certified school reports or any other documents certifying your school results.
Please upload the officially certified documents directly to your e-application in the section Application for the Exemption from the Entrance Examination no later than 28 February.
Criteria for evaluation
- Total number of points in the Field of Study Examination: 100
- Limit for successfully passing the Field of Study Examination: 60
Recommended literature
- David Utrera Domínguez, /Cultura y civilización catalanas/, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014.
- Michael Eaude, /Catalonia: A Cultural History, /Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
- Catalunya blogspot
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Full-time studies in czech
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Combined studies in czech
What will you learn?
Combined studies
In this type of studies, the students focus on the main degree programme (120 credits) supplemented with another, minor, programme (60 credits). The student enrols in the degree programme in which he/she majors. Both the programmes are stated in the university diploma. You will find possible combinations on the websites of individual degree programmes. An exception is programmes preparing students for teaching professions, where both fields of study are equal and the thesis may be written in any of them.
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Aesthetics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Ancient History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Art History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Chinese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Classical Greek language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Combined Art Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ English Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ French Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ General Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ German language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Japanese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Latin language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Polish Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Russian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Social Education and Counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Study of Religions (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Ukrainian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
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Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
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Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Contemporary History (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Environmental Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ European Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Human resource development and employment (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ International Relations (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Political Science (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Security and Strategic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Social Anthropology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Social Work (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Catalan language and literature (major), full-time studies
+ Sociology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Catalan Language and Literature as a minor degree programme
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Aesthetics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Ancient History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Archival Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Art History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Baltic Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Chinese Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Classical Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Greek and Latin Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Combined Art Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Computational Linguistics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Czech Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor)
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
English Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Ethnology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
French Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
General Linguistics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
German Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Information and Library Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Italian Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Japanese Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Greek and Latin Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Modern Greek Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Museology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Musicology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Pedagogy (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Philosophy (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Polish Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Portuguese Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Russian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Social Education and Counselling (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Spanish Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Study of Religions (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Theatre Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Theory of Interactive Media (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Ukrainian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
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Economic Policy (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Economics (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
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Informatics (major) – Faculty of Informatics, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Contemporary History (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Environmental Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
European Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Human resource development and employment (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
International Relations (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Media Studies and Journalism (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Political Science (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor)
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Security & Strategic Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Social Anthropology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Social Work (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) -
Sociology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor)
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
Single-subject studies
Combined studies
Follow-up studies
A graduate of a Bachelor's degree program can (after fulfilling the conditions of admission) continue a master's degree in humanities-based study programs.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Arts | |
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| Type of studies | Bachelor's | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | Yes | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
| major/minor studies | Yes | |
| Standard length of studies | 3 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
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