B.A. Italian and Religion (Hons)Italian and Religion

The staff use a variety of teaching methods, teaching in lectures and in small seminar groups to provide opportunities for interactive learning and active engagement. You will study the equivalent of six modules per year, including The Story of English, Literature and Culture in the 19th Century, Language, Journalism and Media, Language Teaching and Learning, Film and the Moving Image, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, and Language, Literature and the Law.

In your first year you will study core modules in Language, Power and Society, Language Acquisition and Development and Stylistics. You can choose two further modules from: Creative Writing Skills, an Introduction to Linguistics, Patterns of Language, an Introduction to Modernist Fiction, and a free elective from a different discipline.

The choice of modules becomes wider as the course progresses. In the final year, you will produce a supervised 10,000-word dissertation on a topic of your choice. You will be assessed by a variety of methods: exams, essays, presentations, reports and the dissertation.