Italian BA

University College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 15 or 30 credits, adding up to a total of 120 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Language study is compulsory throughout the programme and is designed to cater for those either with or without prior knowledge of the language. You will also take modules each year in areas such as literature, history, linguistics, culture, film and art, covering a large historical timespan. Your third year is spent in Italy, either at a university or on a teaching or work placement.
You may also take modules from SELCS, allowing you to study literature, film, art and culture from outside your subject area. This will enable you to focus on broad cultural movements, issues and approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on the full range of specialisms within the school.
Your third year is spent in Italy, either at a university or on a teaching or work placement. This is a unique experience that allows you to immerse yourself fully in Italian life and culture. Students come back from Italy feeling much more at home with the language and with a spectrum of first-hand experiences from the country.
Your final year is spent at UCL. Back from Italy, you will be able to speak the language fluently and engage with your studies using a whole range of resources in Italian, as a native speaker would do. You will also take fourth-year language modules that are taught in Italian.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

We are one of the biggest Italian departments in the UK with leading experts in all periods of Italian literature. We are also known for the range of Italian studies on offer. Our students can explore interests as diverse and fascinating as Renaissance art, history, modern and contemporary Italian art, linguistics, film, graphic novels, the Mafia...
Staff members include experts on all periods of Italian literature, as well as historians, cultural historians and linguists.
Exceptional resources for Italian studies are available in the UCL Library, including five special collections on Italian studies, and a substantial video library of Italian films. The Warburg Institute Library is within short walking distance of the Italian department.
Our students experience innovative teaching in every area of study. Examples include language projects using e-learning, historical Italian cookery, dedicated visits to museums and galleries in London, hands-on access to UCL rare book collections (for example Dante incunables) and film screenings.

Our graduates have a marketable combination of talents, including the rigour and accuracy required to master a language, and the conceptual power, communication skills and imagination needed to tackle literature, history and other aspects of a foreign culture. Spending the third year abroad adds a unique capacity for enterprise and maturity to the mix. These qualities all provide an excellent preparation for the global, flexible and fast-changing economy of today.
Our graduates find employment in many branches of commerce, finance and industry, including publishing, journalism, NGOs, broadcasting and film, as well as in teaching and higher education, libraries, museums and archives. Many continue their studies in Italian at a graduate level through MA programmes, which lead also to the MPhil or PhD.
Italy's economy is significant in the world. British business is particularly influential in Italy in finance, advertising and market research. Many Italian companies are small and medium enterprises that are looking for contributions from British graduates to expand globally. Both UK and Italian companies value quality graduates with Italian linguistic skills.

English Language at grade B or 6, plus Mathematics at grade C or 5. For UK-based students, a grade C or 5 or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required.

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Subjects

  • Italian Language
  • Art
  • Teaching
  • Italian Language BA
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Linguistics and Syntactic Theory
  • Italian culture
  • Renaissance History and Art
  • Reconstruction
  • Interpretations
  • Representations

Course programme

YEAR 1

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • First Year Italian Language
Optional modules

You will select 90 credits from a wide range of optional modules. Options may include:

  • Background to Dante and Inferno
  • Imagining the Nation: Italian Unification
  • Introduction to Linguistics and Syntactic Theory
  • Italian Culture during Fascism
  • Cinema and Literature from War to Reconstruction
  • Renaissance History and Art
  • Introduction to Renaissance Italy
  • World War I as an Italian War: Events, Interpretations, Representations and Memory
  • SELCS interdepartmental first-level modules which focus on literature, history, linguistics and visual culture.

YEAR 2

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Second Year Italian Language
Optional modules

You will choose 90 credits from a wide range of optional modules. Options may include:

  • Dante: Purgatorio
  • Italian Romanticism
  • Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema
  • Fascist anti-Semitism and the Race of Laws of 1938: Origins, Applications and Memory
  • Issues in Italian Syntax
  • Italian Literature 1865-1925
  • The Italian Novel 1900-1950
  • Writing Women in Renaissance Italy
  • SELCS interdepartmental intermediate modules

YEAR 3

Year abroad key information

You will spend your third year abroad in Italy.

You can participate in a university placement with one of our partner universities, undertake a work placement or British Council language assistantship abroad (subject to availability/ approval), to make the most of your cultural and linguistic immersion. The experiences and skills developed while abroad further academic and personal development, cultural and social awareness, provide a foundation for further study and enhance career prospects.

YEAR 4

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Italian Language 3
Optional modules

You will select 90 credits from a wide range of optional modules. Options may include:

  • Identity and Performance in Renaissance Italy
  • Dante: Divina Commedia
  • Marriage and Divorce Italian-Style (1861-1975)
  • Nation, Culture and Society in Italy 1860-1915
  • Poesia Italiana tra Otto e Novecento
  • The Syntax of Information Structure
  • Words and Images: Italian Film Adaptations
  • SELCS interdepartmental advanced modules
Your learning

Italian language is taught at both beginners level and advanced (post A level) in the first year. You will be taught in small seminar-style classes. Cultural studies modules in the first two years are taught mainly through lectures and tutorials. Final-year topics, which reflect staff research specialisms, often use seminar classes and student presentations to encourage participation and discussion.

Assessment

Assessment is continuous throughout your studies and includes essays, presentations, and oral and unseen examinations. If you are studying at one of our partner universities during your year abroad you will follow the modules of that university and take the associated examinations.

Additional information

Overseas students Fee - £19,390 (2018/19)

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