BA English Literature and Italian QR33

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 4 Years
English writers since Chaucer have looked to Italy for inspiration. On this joint degree course, you can explore the enduring links between these two cultures.
We provide accelerated learning in Italian, meaning that you can start from beginner's level if you have not studied the language before, or at intermediate level if you have only learnt it up to GCSE or AS level. Regardless of your language skills when you joint, you will soon master the fundamental elements of the language and will graduate with a near-native command of it. Please check the course's entry requirements for more details on entry points.
As well as modules in Italian language, you can take first year modules in medieval and twentieth-century Italian history and culture. In English Literature, you will study the different ways that literary texts respond to their cultural context (‘Genre and context’); the development of poetry in English over time and across the globe (‘Poetry in English’); and the ways that literary texts accrue new meanings in the process of interpretation (‘Research and criticism’).
In your second year, you will have a wide choice of modules that range from ‘Italian cinema’ to ‘Fictions of Italy’. In English Literature, you can study everything from Renaissance lyric poetry to contemporary novels and ‘Communications at work’. At this stage, you will be able to shape your degree to your interests much more, and this process continues in your final year of study, where your module choices are more diverse and specialised. For your final year, you can do archive work on ‘Studying manuscripts’, or look at the politics of literature in ‘Writing global justice’. With Italian, you can choose from a range of modules on Italian history, cinema, linguistics and culture, including options on Dante, Machiavelli, or Renaissance theatre.
Everyone in our departments, from new lecturers to professors, teaches at every level of...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

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Subjects

  • English
  • Poetry
  • Writing
  • Italian Language
  • Cinema
  • Global
  • Joint
  • Options
  • Politics
  • Theatre
  • Communications

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Genre and Context
  • Poetry in English
  • Research and Criticism
  • Italian language
Optional modules include:
  • Creative Writing
  • Persuasive Writing
  • Twentieth-Century American Literature
  • Italian Medieval and Renaissance Culture (in translation)
  • Twentieth Century Italian Culture
  • Making Italians: A Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy
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:
  • Introduction to Old English
  • Lyric Voices
  • Renaissance Texts and Cultures
  • Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
  • Early Modern Theatre Practice
  • Restoration to Revolution
  • The Romantic Period
  • Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
  • Critical Issues
  • Victorian Literature
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Writing America
  • Writing and Revising
  • Shakespeare
  • Writing Genre, Identity
  • Writing, Genre and the Market
  • The Business of Books
  • Italian cinema
  • 'Apocalittici e integrati': Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • Fictions of Italy: Themes and Genres
Placement Modules include:
  • Communications at Work
  • Literature, Language and Media
  • Literature, Language and Education
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 Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Naples, Padua, Pisa, Siena and Venice, Bergamo, Pavia and Rome. The Department of Modern Languages has a study abroad officer who can help you prepare for study at one of these universities.

If you would prefer to undertake a placement for your year abroad, 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:
  • Dissertation
  • Italian language
Optional modules include:
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
  • Black British Fiction
  • Colonial Explorations
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Children’s Literature
  • Class Matters
  • ‘Eyes on the Prize’: Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Dante
  • Decadence and Degeneration
  • Dickens
  • Eighteenth-Century Novel
  • Fiction and Ethnicity in post-war Britain and America
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • Family Romances
  • Holocaust Fiction
  • History of the Italian language
  • Italian Language for Management and Business
  • City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
  • Holocaust Testimony
  • Irish Poetry
  • James Joyce
  • Literature and the Railway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
  • Modern Scottish Fiction
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
  • Packaging Literature
  • Performance and the Self in Renaissance Italy
  • Psychoanalysis and Text
  • Restoration Literary Culture
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Science in Culture
  • The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Victorian & Edwardian Children’s Fantasy
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
  • Writing Global Justice
  • Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
  • American Graphic Novel
  • The African-American Short Story
  • Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
  • John Milton
  • Modern American Drama
  • Modernism and Politics
  • Shakespeare and Gender
  • Utopia
  • Victorian Literature and Medicine
  • Voice and the Self in Modern Italian Poetry
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.

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