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Programme code | 1ITAL004U |
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Programme type | Single Honours |
Programme director(s) |
Rhiannon Daniels
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Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
School/department | Department of Italian |
Second School/department | School of Modern Languages |
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.
UG Workload Statement
Success as an undergraduate student depends on you being able to make the transition to self-motivated, independent learning. Programmes are designed to assist you in this development, in many cases by starting with units in which timetabled teaching, such as lectures and practical classes, provides the foundations of knowledge and skills in a subject, moving on to individual research-based work. Over time you will be expected to take increasing responsibility for your own learning, guided by the feedback on your work that you will receive. At the heart of your studies at every level there must be regular and disciplined individual reading, reflection and writing and it is this skill of independent studies, above all others, that will serve you best when you leave the University.
Most programmes use credits and a 20 credit unit broadly equates to about 200 hours of student input. This includes all activities related to the teaching, learning and assessment of taught units.
A component of this is the time that you spend in class, in contact with the teaching staff, which includes activities such as lectures, laboratories, tutorials and fieldwork. Some of this activity may be online and could consist of activity that is synchronous (using real-time environments such as Blackboard Collaborate) or asynchronous (using tools such as tutor moderated discussion forums, blogs or wikis).
In some programmes there are field courses and/or placements that will take place in concentrated periods of time.
Outside scheduled activities you are expected to pursue your own independent learning to build your knowledge and understanding of the subjects you are studying. Such independent activities include, reviewing lecture material, reading textbooks, working on examples sheets, completing coursework, writing up laboratory notes, preparing for in-class progress tests and revising for examinations.
We recognise that many students undertake paid employment. To achieve a sensible balance between work and study, you are advised to undertake paid work for no more than 15 hours per week in term-time.
Professional Programmes
Many undergraduates in the Faculty of Health Sciences will be following the professional programmes of:
For these professional programmes, full time attendance is compulsory unless absence is formally approved. Academic activities are timetabled throughout the 5-day week and student workload is around 40 hours per week on average. Where possible, students in the early years are permitted Wednesday afternoons for sport and extra-curriculum activities. This may not be available in later years of professional programmes as when a student progresses through the curricula there is an increasing exposure to clinical and professional activities. Students in clinic or on placements may need to stay later than core times of 08.00 – 18.00 or even overnight to observe out-of-hours activities. This increasing exposure to clinical activities means that students on these professional programmes often have longer term dates than the University standard. Individual years within programmes are likely to vary in length (for example because of the timings of placements) and further information on this will be found in individual programme regulations. Another important point to note is that many of the assessments sit outside of the standard University examination timetable and are likely to be more frequent meaning that students will more oftentimes be engaged in revision activities and self-directed learning.
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty Assessment and Feedback Statement for Undergraduate Students. University of Bristol access only.
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 ITAL10001 (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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List A - Choose one unit from the list below | |||||
Italian Language 1B (ab initio students) | ITAL10002 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Italian Language 1A (Post A-level) | ITAL10001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
List B | |||||
Medieval and Renaissance Italy | ITAL10034 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
List C - Take this unit only if you take ITAL10001 in list A | |||||
Reading Italian Fiction | ITAL10032 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List D | |||||
Comparative Literature: What is it and how can we practise it? | MODL10016 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
List E | |||||
Modern Italy | ITAL10033 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
List F - select 20cp from: | |||||
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Certificate of Higher Education | 120 |
Mandatory Unit ITAL20042 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 must take at least 80 CP of ITAL-coded units | |||||
List A | |||||
Italian Language 2 for Single Honours | ITAL20042 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
List B - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration | ITAL20032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | ITAL29007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
General Linguistics | MODL20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List C - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration | ITAL20032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dante's Inferno (TB2) | ITAL20035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Italian Fascism | ITAL20045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | ITAL29007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages | MODL20021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Beginners Portuguese | MODL20022 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Migrations of Culture | MODL20024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List D - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Italian Fascism | ITAL20045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List E - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Dante's Inferno (TB2) | ITAL20035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List F - Choose 20 CP from the list below OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists B-E above | |||||
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
Mandatory units MODL20014 and MODL20015 are 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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Year Abroad TB-1 | MODL20014 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR | |
Year Abroad TB-2 | MODL20015 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR | |
120 |
Mandatory Unit ITAL30062 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 must take at least 80 CP of ITAL-coded units | |||||
List A | |||||
Italian Language 3 for Single Honours | ITAL30062 | 20 | Mandatory | A | TB-4 |
List B - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
List C - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) | ITAL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | C,E | TB-2 |
Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (follow-on) | MODL30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Follow-on Portuguese | MODL30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
List D - Choose 20 CP from the list below | |||||
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) | ITAL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching | MODL30036 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Studying and Making Early Printed Books | MODL30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Transnational Narrative in pre-modern cultures | MODL30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List E | |||||
Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
List F | |||||
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose on additional unit from lists B-D above | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
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.
An oral distinction may be awarded.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see 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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