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Programme code | 1ITAL004U |
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Programme type | Single Honours |
Programme director(s) |
Ruth Glynn
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Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
School/department | Department of Italian |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Relevant QAA subject benchmark groups | Languages, Cultures and Societies (2023) (benchmark statement) |
Mode of study | Full Time |
Programme length | 4 years (full time) |
The programme is designed to allow students to achieve a command of spoken and written Italian at a high level of fluency and accuracy. It also offers students the opportunity to study aspects of Italian Culture that will provide an understanding of Italy's rich diversity from the Middle Ages to the present day. The programme offers a multidisciplinary and theoretical approach to cultural study through which students develop skills in interpreting a range of texts. Attention to the importance of historical context in understanding issues of cultural production and reception provides students with a thorough understanding of Italy's complicated heritage. The programme offers an excellent multidisciplinary training and equips students with advanced practical language skills. Graduates enter employment in a wide variety of contexts making use of their language skills and of the skills and values characteristic of a Humanities degree.
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Acquisition of knowledge and understanding through seminars (some lectures in Year 1) 1, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18 |
Methods of Assessment | |
Weekly formative assessment to support all aspects of language learning: 1-8 |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Intellectual skills are developed through seminars, class discussion, oral presentation and essay writing |
Methods of Assessment | |
Intellectual skills are developed through seminars, class discussion, oral presentation and essay writing |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Seminars are used to develop oral communication by requiring students to give oral presentations and engage in class discussion |
Methods of Assessment | |
Non-language units are assessed through a combination of written coursework and oral presentations requiring a detailed and expansive handling of literature and extensive reading to support conclusions. |
Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
Level C is designed to lay the foundations which will allow students to fulfil the programme's aims and objectives. Students take the language unit appropriate to their level of entry. Language units address the development of key language skills. Mandatory units in twentieth-century literature, film, linguistics, and contemporary society introduce students to all the key areas of study offered in the programme. Students will gain a broad grounding in the discipline and its methodological concerns. This will also allow them to make informed choices about which units to select in future years. The Project is designed to develop independent research skills as an integral part of the programme from the outset. It is expected that students' work may require considerable direction from staff at this stage. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
Students are expected to be able to demonstrate that they have expanded the range and depth of their knowledge of the discipline in both mandatory and optional units. They will develop analytical skills, and expand their ability to structure and present work effectively. Language work will be of a higher level of complexity and students will advance their ability to work creatively with Italian and improve mediation skills. Active participation in seminars and responsibility for group learning is required. There is an enhanced degree of self-directed learning (for example in the researching and writing of course work assignments) |
Level H/6 - Honours |
The Year Abroad is designed to enable students to use, reinforce and expand the language structures learnt in the first two years of the degree scheme. Written work in Italian undertaken during the Year Abroad furthers students' capacity to carry out research on primary sources. Students will develop their knowledge of Italian culture and society through first-hand experience and extend their range of key transferable skills. |
The intended learning outcome mapping document shows which mandatory units contribute towards each programme intended learning outcome.
For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the undergraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
Workload Statement
In common with the rest of the University, units in the Faculty of Arts
adhere to the credit framework which sets out that 20 credits normally
equates to some 200 hours of student input. Some of this time will be spent
in class, with the remainder divided between preparation for classes and
preparation for, and completion of, the assessment tasks. Some of this
activity may occur within the University’s online learning environment,
Blackboard, which you may use to prepare wikis, to interact with other
students, to download tutorials or to receive feedback.
Assessment Statement
Please select the following link for a statement about assessment. This is University of Bristol access only.
https://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/current/under/assessment.html
In addition to its Single Honours Italian degree, the Department also offers joint programmes in which Italian is combined with either a second language (any one of the following: Czech, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, or Russian), or with one of Drama, History of Art, Music, Philosophy or Politics.The Department currently has ERASMUS exchange links with the universities of Milan, Genoa, Turin, Bologna, Siena, Modena, Palermo, Forlí, Florence, Padua, Verona, Udine and Naples, but other arrangements are also possible.
Mandatory Unit Italian Language 1(Post A-level) or Italian language (ab initio students) is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Students with an Italian A Level take the following units: | |||||
Italian Language 1A (Post A-level) | ITAL10001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Modern Italian Texts | ITAL10007 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Project (Teaching Block 2) | ITAL10014 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Modern Italy | ITAL10029 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Medieval and Renaissance Italy | ITAL10030 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Reading Medieval and Renaissance Culture | ITAL10031 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Introduction to the Study of Cultures | MODL10011 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Choose open units | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Students without Italian A-Level take the following units: | |||||
Italian Language 1B (ab initio students) | ITAL10002 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Modern Italian Texts | ITAL10007 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Project (Teaching Block 2) | ITAL10014 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Modern Italy | ITAL10029 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Medieval and Renaissance Italy | ITAL10030 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Reading Medieval and Renaissance Culture | ITAL10031 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Choose open units | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Certificate of Higher Education | 120 |
Mandatory Unit Italian Language 2 is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Italian Language 2 for Single Honours | ITAL20042 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Students must choose a minimum of three but no more than five from the following list: | |||||
Italian Memories of the 2nd World War | ITAL20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Dante's Inferno | ITAL20024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | ITAL29007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Italian Identities in the Nineteenth Century | ITAL20040 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Oral Histories of 68 and the Years of Lead | ITAL20041 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students may substitute 20cp of open units for 20cp of optional units on these lists | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Students may choose up to two units from the following list: | |||||
Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe | MODL20011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Foreign Language Skills for Semester Abroad Students | MODL20018 | 10 | Optional | F | TB-1 |
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list: | |||||
Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Year Abroad TB-1 | MODL20014 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR | |
Year Abroad TB-2 | MODL20015 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR | |
120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Italian Language 3 for Single Honours | ITAL30062 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Students must choose a minimum of 60cp but no more than 100cp from the following list: | |||||
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s | ITAL30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students may choose up to 20cp from the following list: | |||||
Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change | MODL30015 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study: | |||||
Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (follow-on) | MODL30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Italian (BA) | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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