Undergraduate
BA Italian
Structure
and Syllabus
You will be
required to enter the examination in units to a total value
of 12 full units and pass in a minimum of nine full units,
including all the practical language elements. In any one
year you may choose to enter examinations to a minimum of
one full and to a maximum of four full units (or the half
unit equivalent). The classification of your degree will be
based on your results in all 12 units.
Level 1
(four units)
One
compulsory core unit of practical language work:
Advanced
Italian 1 [067105] (full unit)
AND
six half units chosen from the
following:
Dante:
Inferno [067T121]
Italian
19th-century literature (the novel) [067161A]
Italian
20th-century literature 1: prose [067T181]
Italian
20th-century literature 2: drama [067T182]
Fascist
fictions: cinema and literature, 1922-1945 [067T185]
Introduction to Italian studies [067T190]
Italian
culture and society 1860-1945 [067T194]
Level 2
(four units)
One
compulsory core unit of practical language work:
Advanced
Italian 2 [067T205] (full unit)
AND
six half units chosen from the
following:
Italian
language and society 1 [067T210]
Dante:
Purgatorio [067T221]
Italian
Renaissance 1: Art and culture [067T240A]
Italian
Renaissance 2: Literature and society 1350-1550
[067T241]
Italian
19th- and 20th-century poetry [067T271]
Modern
Sicily and the novels of Sciascia [067T287]
The
politics and government of Republican Italy [067T298]
Level 3
(four units)
One
compulsory core unit of practical language work:
Advanced
Italian 3 [067T305] (full unit)
AND
four optional units chosen from the
following:
Essay in
Italian [067T307]
Dante:
Paradiso [067T321]
18th-century travel writers and Italy [067T330]
Boccaccio and the Renaissance novella [067T332]
Modern
Italian experimental narrative [067T383]
AND
one full unit Special Subject chosen
from the following:
Italian
language and society 2 [067T310]
Ariosto:
Orlando furioso [067T343]
Modern
critical theory and contemporary Italian poetry
[067T370]
Approved
topic [067T390]
