Spanish Language and Literature
Bachelor's degree in full-time 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 Bachelor’s degree study program in Spanish Language and Literature opens the way for the acquisition of basic knowledge and respective competences in fields of Linguistics, History, Literature and Culture of Hispanophone Countries, including Spain. Input language level corresponds to the Common European Framework Reference for Languages, i. e., B1, output language to level C1.
Practical training
Practical training is not required.
Career opportunities
Graduates with this degree can write and speak in Spanish with an almost Pre-Proficient level. They are equipped with a broad knowledge of the social, political, and cultural situations in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. In addition to access to professional careers the fields of translation, interpretation, editing, journalism, and tourism, they are equipped with the necessary skills adaptable to other professions: the ability to think independently and critically and to express themselves in both their mother tongue and Spanish.
Admission requirements
The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the written 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 only in Czech. It is intended to check the applicants’ knowledge of the given field of study. It is done in the form of a written test.Basic description of the Field of Study Examination:
Field of study test: written grammar test at the B1 language level and test on the facts of life and institutions of the Spanish speaking countries (history, geography, and culture) to the extent of secondary school knowledge.
Sample Field of Study Test
Sample Field of Study Test: Answer Key
Admission without the entrance examination
You may be exempt from the entrance examination based on at least one of the following criteria:- participation in Students’ Professional Activities (SOČ) - selected topics in the field of Theory of Culture, Arts, and Artistic Creation, e.g. literature or linguistics. For a final verdict you need to submit your work, so that the compliance of your topic with the respective field of study can be assessed;
- secondary school results with an average grade 1.0 in four profile subjects determined by the faculty: Czech (Slovak) language, Spanish, basics of social sciences and one more subject of the applicant’s choice from the following: Chinese, English, French, history, music, information technology, Italian, Latin, maths, German, Russian.
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: 50
Recommended literature
- BALEA, Amalia, Malena CASTRO et. al. Cultura en el mundo hispanohablante A2/B1. Enclave-ELE, 2018.
- CHALUPA, Jiří. Španělsko. Stručná historie států. Praha: Libri, 2015.
- GAJDOVÁ, Dana, Juana Matouš Reyes a Petra Štěpánová. Španělština. Otázky a odpovědi. Nejen k maturitě. Dubicko: INFOA, 2009.
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
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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Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Spanish 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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Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Contemporary History (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Human resource development and employment (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Psychology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Spanish Language and Literature (major), full-time studies
+ Security and Strategic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Spanish Language and Literature as a minor degree programme
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Archival Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Classical Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Information and Library Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Museology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Musicology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Portuguese Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Study of Religions (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Theatre Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Ukrainian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Spanish 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
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Human resource development and employment (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Political Science (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Psychology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) -
Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor)
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
Single-subject studies
Combined studies
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
Follow-up studies
Graduates can continue to the Master’s degree study programs in Spanish language and literature, Spanish language translation, North American cultural studies (if the previous major or minor study was English), and Upper secondary school teacher training in Spanish.
Study information
Provided by | Faculty of Arts | |
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Type of studies | Bachelor's | |
Mode | full-time | Yes |
combined | No | |
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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Mgr. Milada Malá, Ph.D.
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