BA Italian and History RV31

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Italian language at: Advanced level (post-A level) or Intermediate level (post-GCSE/AS level)or Beginners level (little or no prior experience)
• Directed Study in History
• Landmarks in History 1
• Landmarks in History 2
• Study Skills in History

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
• Approaches to History

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
• Period in Early Modern History: Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
• Period in Early Modern History: Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
• Period in Medieval History: Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
• Period in Medieval History: Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
• Period in Modern History: Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
• Period in Modern History: Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
• Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
• Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
• Period in Early Modern History: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
• Period in Medieval History: Women of the Medieval World
• Period in Modern History: American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
• ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

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.

Throughout the degree, you will receive guidance on careers and will have the opportunity to think about what you would like to do and what skills you will need to do it. If you are interested in a teaching career we offer a module in history education, which provides you with training and two weeks’ classroom experience in a local school.

Year 4 Core modules include:

• Italian language

Optional modules include:

• 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
• Dissertation
• Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
• From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
• Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
• Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
• Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
• The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
• Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
• Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
• Discovering Archives and Collections
• European Case Studies (3)
• France and Europe since 1945
• History Education
• Introduction to Language Teaching
• Ireland and the English in the middle ages
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• Language and Power
• Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
• Political Extremism in Britain between the Wars
• Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
• Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
• The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
• The United States and the Cold War
• new Modern Topic

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.