Italian and Linguistics

In your first year you will study Italian language at beginner's, intermediate or advanced level, building up skills in written and spoken Italian. You will also take modules focusing on modern Italian political history or the development of literary and cinematic expression from the Renaissance to the present. Your second year is usually spent abroad taking courses at one of our 20 partner universities across Italy (including Turin, Genoa, Bologna, Siena, Rome). As part of your year abroad, you will attend a funded residential course in Venice at our Italian base, the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.

In your final two years, you will continue your study of Italian language. You will work in a truly bilingual environment, often sharing classes with Italian native speakers who join us from our partner universities in Italy. You will also choose from a broad variety of literary, historical, and cultural modules, taught by leading experts. Examples include Dante, the Italian Renaissance, political thought, the development of Italian and English short fiction, nineteenth-century poetry, Italian cinema, contemporary women's writing, Italian migration, applied linguistics and history of the Italian language.

On the Italian and Linguistics course you will study 50% Italian and 50% Linguistics. After beginning the course, you may be able to transfer to Italian with Linguistics, which would enable you to study 75% Italian and 25% Linguistics.