2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Italian B and Linguistics
Programme code: | BA-IT/B&LING | UCAS code: | QRC3 |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Ingo Cornils | Contact address: | i.cornils@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 485
Entry requirements:
For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in Italian and 40 credits in Linguistics, plus a 20 credit cornerstone module.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ITAL1030 | Beginners Italian 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ITAL1035 | Beginners Italian 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING1100 | Language: Meaning and Use | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL1060 | Language: Structure and Sound | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules:
ITAL1034 | Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: An Introduction | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ITAL1040 | Italy from Fascism to the Present | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules:
ITAL1094 | Fictions of Fascism (B): Watching the Detectives | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ITAL1150 | Italian Cinema: An Introduction | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students will be required to study 20 credits from the following cornerstone modules:
MODL1050 | Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1070 | World Histories | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1090 | Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL1100 | Politics, Culture and Society | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1401 | Discourse, Culture and Identity | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.
MODL1500 | LCS Academic Essentials | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects. Of the remaining credits, 20 credits should be taken in one of the named subjects; the final 20 credits may be taken as discovery modules or in either of the named subjects.
In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ITAL2016 | Italian Language B | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LING2330 | Phonetics Pre-requisite for: LING3210 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING2340 | Syntax Pre-requisite for: LING3030 and LING3190 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules:
ITAL2023 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2025 | Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2090 | Power, Pain and Beauty: Introduction to the Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2095 | The Italian Renaissance: Ideals and Realities | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL2200 | Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2300 | Italy: Regions, Identities and Nation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2400 | Tall Tales: An Introduction to the Italian Short Story | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
MODL2001 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their Italian options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Italian in
level 2 including ITAL2016.
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Candidates may choose to study between 0 and 40 credits from the following optional modules:
LING2005 | Languages In Contact | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING2131 | Psycholinguistics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING2360 | The Life Cycle of Languages | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
LING2370 | Representation, Identity and Control | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING2380 | Language and Gender | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING2390 | Language Acquisition | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING2410 | Language Change | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING2420 | Interactional Linguistics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING2430 | Experimental Pragmatics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING2500 | How Texts Work | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
LING3330 | Language Teaching: Linguistic Theory in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 |
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
The candidate will spend the third year of the programme in Italy.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to follow the following compulsory module:
ITAL9001 | Year Abroad in Italy | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects, plus at least 20-credits as a Final Year Project which can be taken in and count towards either subject. Any remaining credits can be taken in either of the named subjects or as discovery modules. A maximum of 20 credits of discovery modules may be taken in level 3. Finalists may only take level 1 modules which are listed as discovery skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.
In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
ITAL3010 | Italian Language 3 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
LING3010 | Linguistics Research Exercise | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LING3200 | Linguistics Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3310 | Final Year Project: Extended Essay | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3320 | Final Year Project: Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules:
ITAL3025 | Italian Terrorisms/Italian Film | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3033 | The Making of the Italian Language: From Dante to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3110 | Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3153 | Primo Levi: From Testimony to Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3233 | Minority Languages and Dialects in Italy from Fascism to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3253 | Language and Identity in Twentieth-Century Italian Novels | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3310 | 'Giocare al Romanzo': Italo Calvino and the Novel, from Neorealism to Postmodern | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ITAL3340 | Bad Christmas Films: The Italian Cinepanettone | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3350 | Specialised Uses of Italian | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ITAL3370 | Dark Italy: Italian Crime Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ITAL3375 | A Year With 366 Days: A Journey Through Petrarch's Canzoniere | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ITAL3400 | Made in Italy. Italian for Business | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ITAL3450 | Family Novels: Life Stories, Gender and Social Change in Modern Italy | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 |
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Candidates will be required to study between 40 and 80 credits from the following optional modules.
LING3005 | Languages in Contact | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING3030 | Syntactic Theory | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING3180 | Language and Gender | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING3190 | Language Acquisition | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING3220 | Representation, Identity and Control | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING3250 | The Life Cycle of Languages | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
LING3290 | Language Change | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING3310 | Interactional Linguistics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING3330 | Language Teaching: Linguistic Theory in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
LING3350 | Language Processing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LING3370 | Experimental Pragmatics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LING3500 | How Texts Work | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
LING3600 | Sociophonetics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Last updated: 11/08/2017
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