ObjectivesCombining the study of Italian with the History of Art is an exciting choice that enables you to gain a thorough understanding of Italian language, society and culture and of the power and influence of images. The course is spread over four years.
Entry requirementsThere are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
Academic titleBA Italian and History of Art
Course descriptionThis BA in Italian and History of Art involves the following modules.
Year 1
-Italian Language
-Twentieth Century Culture
-History of Art and Architecture Workshop
-Art's Histories: a survey
-Makers and making: artist, architects and their practices
-Italian Medieval & Renaissance Culture (in translation)
Year 2
-Italian Language
-Study Trip abroad
-Distance and difference: perspectives on art, architecture and visual culture
-History of the Italian Language
-Italian Cinema
-Italian History and Society since 1945
-Italian Modernism
-Italian Narrative and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
-Writing Women in Early Modern Italy (1300-1650)
-Contemporary Italian Literature
-Women in Contemporary Italy (1900-2000)
-Art and power in fifteenth-century Italy
-Altars, aristocrats and guillotines.
-Aspects of Baroque, Rococo and Neo-Classical art and architecture
-Heroes and hero worship
-Modern art and architecture, and its discontents
Year 3
Year Abroad
The choice of one of the following:
- studying at an Italian University
- working as a Teaching Assistant at an Italian school
- on a work placement with a Italian firm
Final Year
-Advanced Italian language
-Aspects of the Renaissance in France and Italy
-Dante
-European Cinema
-Modern Movements in Poetry 1900-1920
-The South since 1860: Images and Reality
-Umberto Eco
-Court Culture in the Italian Renaissance 2
-Fantastic Literature in Italy 1860s-1980s
-Women's Everyday Life in Italy from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution
-The Republic of Venice from c.1454 to 1571
-Immortalising the body: images of chivalry and devotion
-Brunelleschi and Renaissance architecture
-Palladio: architecture and science
-Italian Renaissance portraiture
-Annibale Carracci and painting in Rome 1590-11623
-Delacroix, Romanticism and French nineteenth-century painting
-Goya: reason and superstition in the Spanish Enlightenment
-Figuring the female body
-Landscape art in Britain and France: place and meaning
-Art, war and gender in the twentieth century
-Bodies of difference: mapping contemporary art
-Space and the place: architecture and the monument
-Museum theory, history and ethics
-Object analysis and museum interpretation