BA Italian and Classical Studies QR83

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Italian language at: Advanced level (post-A level) or Intermediate (post-GCSE/AS level) or Beginners (little or no prior experience)
• Texts, Readers, and Writers
• Ancient Song

Optional modules include:

• Italian Medieval and Renaissance Culture (in translation)
• Twentieth Century Italian Culture
• Making Italians: A Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy
• Ancient Greek 1
• Ancient Greek 2 (I)
• Ancient Greek 3 (I)
• Ancient Greek 4 (H)
• Ancient Greek 5 (H)
• Latin 1 (C)
• Latin 2 (I)
• Latin 3 (I)
• Latin 4 (H)
• Latin 5 (H)
• Rome in the Augustan Age
• The Civilization of Fifth-Century Athens

Comparative modules include:

• The Making of Modern Europe (1): Europe to 1945
• The Making of Modern Europe (2): Europe since 1945
• Greats of European Cinema
• Introduction to linguistics

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 2 Core Modules Include:

• Italian Language

Optional modules include:

• Italian cinema
• 'Apocalittici e integrati': Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
• Fictions of Italy: Themes and Genres
• Museum History, Policy and Ethics
• Ancient Drama
• Ancient Epic
• Ancient Greek 1
• Ancient Greek 2 (I)
• Ancient Greek 3 (I)
• Ancient Greek 4 (H)
• Ancient Greek 5 (H)
• Ancient Persuasion
• Curatorship and Collections Management
• Greek History: Archaic Age to Alexander
• IWLP Language Module (details unspecified)
• IWLP Modern Greek 2
• IWLP Modern Greek 3
• IWLP Modern Greek Level 1
• Latin 1 (C)
• Latin 2 (I)
• Latin 3 (I)
• Latin 4 (H)
• Latin 5 (H)
• Museum Communication and Interpretation
• Practice of Entrepreneurship
• Roman History: From Republic to Empire
• Writing Women in Renaissance Italy

Comparative modules include:

• Society, thought, and art in Modern Europe
• Unity, nationalism and regionalism in Europe
• Science, perversion, and dream in global fantastic literature
• Love in Medieval Renaissance

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 3

You can choose from three options for your third year: studying at a partner institution through the Erasmus+ programme, undertaking a work placement or working as a British Council language teaching assistant.

Our Italian partner institutions include universities in Bergamo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Naples, Padua, Pavia, Pisa, Rome, Siena and Venice. The Department of Modern Languages has a study abroad officer who can help you prepare for study at one of these universities.

You can also talk to the Department's specialist year abroad team, who can provide you with support in securing and preparing for a placement. Past students have carried out roles with organisations such as Ermanno Scervino, the Istituto per la storia della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea and the UN.

Year 4 Core modules include:

• Italian Language

Optional modules include:

• Dissertation
• Italian Language for Management and Business
• Dante
• Performance and the Self in Renaissance Italy
• History of the Italian language
• Voice and the Self in Modern Italian Poetry
• Performance and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Court culture, Petrarch and his imitators
• After the Flood: Italy from 1945-1956
• Alexander to Cleopatra: History and Culture of the Hellenistic World (c. 330-30 BC)
• Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age. The Context for the Trojan War
• Ancient Biography
• Ancient Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphs
• Ancient Greek 1
• Ancient Greek 2 (I)
• Ancient Greek 3 (I)
• Ancient Greek 4 (H)
• Ancient Greek 5 (H)
• Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Greece
• British School at Rome Undergraduate Summer School
• Carthage:The Rise and Fall
• Dante
• Digital Silchester
• Greek Art and Drama
• IWLP Modern Greek 2
• IWLP Modern Greek 3
• IWLP Modern Greek Level 1
• Introduction to Language Teaching
• Language and Power
• Latin 1 (C)
• Latin 2 (I)
• Latin 3 (I)
• Latin 4 (H)
• Latin 5 (H)
• Roman Cities
• Technology in the Ancient World
• Transformations of Helen
• Voice and The Self in Modern Italian Poetry: 1900s-1980s
• Xenophon’s Anabasis

Comparative modules include:

• EU Case studies I
• EU Case studies II
• EU Case studies III
• Cinemas of the World
• 19th Century European Novel
• Language and Power

Please note that all modules are subject to change.