Italian B and Portuguese

Leeds University Business School

Postgraduate

In Leeds

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

If you have little or no knowledge of Italian, this degree will allow you to learn the language from scratch and develop an understanding of the history, politics and rich culture of a major European economy. Core modules will develop your language skills and introduce you to Italian history and culture, but you’ll also choose from a wide range of optional modules to explore topics from medieval and Renaissance art and literature to cinema and specialised uses of Italian in business.
This degree will allow you to learn Portuguese from beginners’ level and gain an insight into Lusophone and Latin American history and culture. By combining core and optional modules, you’ll build language skills and explore topics from literature and cinema to national identity and the African Diaspora. You’ll also benefit from the Instituto Camões – the cultural institute of the Portuguese government is on campus and you’ll have access to all of its facilities.

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Location

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Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: ABB
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Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be BBB at A Level and grade A in the EPQ.
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Subjects

  • Italian Language
  • Portuguese Language
  • Latin
  • Politics
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • History Politics
  • American History

Course programme

A joint honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each single honours course, but you’ll take fewer options and discovery modules so you can fit in both subjects. You’ll study one of our cornerstone modules in Year 1 to draw your two subjects together, and apply your knowledge and skills to a major research project in either subject in your final year.

Italian B

Core modules in your first year will develop your Italian language skills and introduce you to Italian culture and history. You will spend time abroad in Italy, before you return to continue your language study and also choose from optional modules such as Dante or regional identities in Italy. A variety of optional modules alongside these will allow you to continue pursuing your own interests. Your time abroad will bring a new perspective to advanced language classes in your final year.

Portuguese

In your first year, you’ll study core modules that develop your language skills. Following this you will take further language study as well as a range of optional modules, such as Hispanic cinema and Latin American history. This will prepare you for your time abroad working or studying in a Lusophone country. When you return for your final year, you’ll combine advanced language classes and optional modules on aspects of Lusophone culture, history and politics.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Beginners Italian 1 20 credits
  • Beginners Italian 2 20 credits
  • IT for LCS Students 5 credits
  • Introduction to Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese Speaking Africa 20 credits
  • Portuguese Language for Beginners 1A 20 credits
  • Portuguese Language for Beginners 1B 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: An Introduction 10 credits
  • Italy from Fascism to the Present 10 credits
  • Fictions of Fascism (B): Watching the Detectives 10 credits
  • Italian Cinema: An Introduction 10 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Italian Language 20 credits
  • Portuguese Language Skills 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy 20 credits
  • Power, Pain and Beauty: Introduction to the Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance 20 credits
  • Italy: Regions, Identities and Nation 20 credits

Year 3

Compulsory modules

You will spend a year in either Italy or a Portuguese-speaking country.

  • Year Abroad

Year 4

Compulsory modules

You will spend a year in either Italy or a Portuguese-speaking country. If you have spent year 3 in Italy, you will spend year 4 in a Portuguese-speaking country, and vice-versa.

Year 5

Compulsory modules

  • Italian Language 3 20 credits
  • Advanced Portuguese Language 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories

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