BA Italian (R310)
Bachelor's degree
In Bristol
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Bristol
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Start date
Different dates available
About BA Italian
Expertise in modern languages has never been more important as the United Kingdom forges a new relationship with its European partners and seeks to develop its trading and cultural ties throughout the world. The University of Bristol is a major centre for the study of modern languages, with high-quality teaching and research.
This course will give you a high level of proficiency in one of Europe's most important and beautiful languages. In addition, you will gain a thorough understanding of Italy's remarkable contribution to Western culture.
If you are a beginner in Italian, you will spend much of your first year developing your language skills. You will also learn about modern Italian culture and history.
Post A-level students consolidate and enhance their existing knowledge of Italian in the first year. As well as learning about modern Italy, they can also choose from a wider range of culture units, which currently include Medieval Italy, Renaissance Italy and Italian Colonial Culture.
For the rest of the degree all students follow the same language course and choose from a wide range of culture options, ranging from Dante to contemporary cinema. All these are taught by experts in their fields of Italian culture.
Language is taught by native speakers who use a range of approaches and excellent multimedia facilities to develop your fluency and accuracy.
The third year abroad offers an invaluable opportunity to develop your Italian further and acquire added transferable skills. During this period you can either study at a partner university in Italy, gain experience as a teaching assistant, or undertake a work placement.
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Subjects
- University
- Cinema
- Teaching
- Italian Language
Course programme
- Italian Language 1A (Post A-level)
- Italian Language 1B (ab initio students)
- Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Reading Italian Fiction
- Introduction to the Study of Cultures
- Modern Italy
- 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units
Year 2 (2019/20)
- Italian Language 2
- Italian Memories of the 2nd World War
- Dante's Inferno
- The Invention of the Renaissance Woman
- Sport, Culture and History in Twentieth Century Italy
- Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration
- Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change
- Political Systems of Modern Europe
- Woman and Nation
- Italian Memories of the 2nd World War
- Dante's Inferno
- The Invention of the Renaissance Woman
- Sport, Culture and History in Twentieth Century Italy
- Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration
- Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change
- Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe
- Catalan Language (Elementary)
- Czech Language (Elementary)
- Italian Memories of the Second World War (TB2)
- Dante's Inferno (TB2)
- The Invention of the Renaissance Woman (TB2)
- Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change (TB2)
- Sport, Culture and History in Twentieth Century Italy (TB2)
- Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration (TB2)
- Italian Memories of the Second World War (TB2)
- Dante's Inferno (TB2)
- The Invention of the Renaissance Woman (TB2)
- Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change (TB2)
- Sport, Culture and History in Twentieth Century Italy (TB2)
- Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration (TB2)
- Political Systems of Modern Europe
- 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists B-E above
Year 3 (2019/20)
- Year Abroad TB-1
- Year Abroad TB-2
Year 4 (2019/20)
- Italian Language 3
- Independent Study 1
- Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema
- The Culture of Fascism
- Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso
- The Decameron in History
- Translating in a Professional Context
- Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language
- Ancients and moderns: cultures of humanism in Renaissance Europe
- Communism in Europe
- Catalan Language (follow-on)
- Czech Language (follow-on)
BA Italian (R310)