Undergraduate
BA Italian and French
Structure
and Syllabus
BA: 12
units (four Level 1 units, four Level 2 units plus four
Level 3 units). In order to obtain the degree a student must
pass in a minimum of nine full units, at least three of
which must be from Level 3, and include the core language
units at all Levels. In any one year you may choose to enter
examinations in a minimum of one half unit and a maximum of
four full units (or half unit equivalent).
Level 1 (four
units)
Compulsory
core
full units:
Advanced
Italian I [067T105]
Dante:
Inferno [067T121]
Written French
1 [042F1A5]
AND
one half unit in Italian chosen from:
Italian
19th-century literature: the novel [067T161A]
Italian
20th-century literature 1: prose [067T181]
Italian
20th-century literature 2: drama [067T182]
Introduction
to Italian studies [067T190]
Italian
culture and society 1860-1945 [067T194]
Fascist
fictions: cinema & literature 1922-1945 [067T185]
AND
two additional French half units from:
Principles of
textual analysis [042F170]
Introduction
to narrative [042F171]
The
linguistics of French 1 [042F173]
Crisis,
nation, identity: perspectives on modern France [042F174]
Image and
icon: reading the visual [042F175]
Level 2 (four
units)
Compulsory
core
full units:
Advanced
Italian 2 [067T205]
Dante:
Purgatorio [067T221]
Written French
2 [042F2A5]
AND
one half unit in Italian chosen from:
Italian
language and society 1 [067T210]
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]
AND
two additional French half units from:
Shaping
fictions [042F270]
Writing
romance and desire [042F271]
The
linguistics of French 2 [042F273]
Culture and
ideology [042F274]
Staging the
text [042F275]
Level 3 (four
units)
Compulsory
core
half units:
Advanced
Italian 3 [067T305]
Written French
3 [042F3A5]
Spoken French
3 [042F3A6]
AND EITHER
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]
OR one
full unit from:
Italian
language and society 2 [067T310]
Ariosto:
Orlando furioso [067T343]
Modern
critical theory and contemporary Italian poetry [067T370]
An extended
essay on an approved topic [067T390]
AND EITHER
two additional French half units from:
The
linguistics of French 3 [042F31A]
French
medieval literature 3 [042F32A]
Literature of
challenge: the French philosophes [042F346]
Love and
society in the modern French novel [042F350]
Modern French
dramatists [042F351]
OR one
full unit: special subject
Aspects of
contemporary French [042F37A]
Rousseau
[042F379]
Baudelaire
[042F381]
Zola [042F382]
Proust
[042F384]
Medieval
Occitan [042F388]
