On Feb 11, ANECA, the organization responsible for implementing the reforms to the Spanish university system, passed a resolution to divide language and literature teaching at Spanish universities into the following categories:

1. Lenguas y culturas del Estado español
a. Lengua española y sus literaturas
b. Lengua y literatura catalanas
c. Lengua y literatura gallegas
d. Lengua y literatura vascas
e. Lengua y literatura asturianas
2. Lenguas y culturas modernas
3. Lenguas y culturas orientales
4. Lenguas y culturas clásicas
5. Lingüística teórica y aplicada
6. Estudios literarios

"Lengua y literatura en inglés" is nowhere to be seen, which is perhaps strange given the way the world is today (whether you agree with it or not). It has been subsumed, I suppose, under "Lenguas y culturas modernas". Now I'm all for pluralism. But isn't it strange to have a degree called "Asturian Language and Literature" and not one called, for example, "Language and Literature in English"? The English department where I teach at Madrid's Complutense University has prepared a manifesto which sets out our views on the matter, starting with the fact that almost half of the people studying in the Philology department at the Complutense are studying English - considerably more than are studying even Spanish philology. They would like to have a degree called "Language and Literature in English", but if this goes through, that won't be an option for them. If you are interested in seeing and perhaps signing the manifesto, then send a comment to PdS Blog with your e-mail address in the following form - "jack at hotmail dot com" - and I'll send you the manifesto (in Spanish).

And while we're on philology, and to show that I'm a pluralist, here's someone who thinks that Francis Bacon wrote Don Quixote.
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