Comments about BA Italian and History of Art - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire
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Objectives
Combining 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.
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Entry requirements
There 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.
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Academic title
BA Italian and History of Art
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Course description
This 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
