Italian Studies

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Overview

The Diploma in Languages provides students with the opportunity to gain a Diploma in Italian Studies while completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne.

Italian Studies

Italian is one of the world’s most important languages strongly influencing languages and cultures around the world. A knowledge of Italian opens up access to a wide range of areas, including history, art, music, as well as to other languages, such as French and Spanish. I The overall objective of the Italian Studies program is to teach students to process information from a wide variety of materials in Italian, both written and spoken, and to produce accounts and discussions of that information in a variety of forms. In subjects at all levels, you will be guided towards undertaking independent research projects into areas including language, literature, politics, cinema, theatre, travel writing, food and wine, immigration and identity.

Italian language subjects are organised in a progressive sequence (of units) from Italian 1 through to Italian 7 and beyond. Entry and exit points are determined by the student’s background in the language, placement testing if required, prerequisites, or at the discretion of the Italian Studies Program. Students normally progress through the subjects in consecutive order. Mid-year entry is also possible into subjects with even numbers, subject to appropriate prior experience and approval from the head of the Italian Studies program. Accelerated progression is possible on advice from the Italian Studies Program.

Intended learning outcomes

See course objectives.

Last updated: 4 March 2025

Structure

100 credit points

The Diploma consists of a three-year sequence of first-, second- and third-year language study and may add up to one year to the duration of the student’s degree course. See the Diploma course structure for details.

Italian Studies

A 100-point diploma sequence is available. The sequence is as follows for the three most common entry points:

  • Italian Studies 1 entry point: for students who have little or no background in the Italian language.
  • Italian Studies 3 entry point: usually for students who have undertaken four or five years of secondary school Italian.
  • Italian Studies 5 entry point: usually for VCE Italian students.
  • Italian Studies 7 entry point: usually for native speakers or near-native speakers of Italian, or for candidates who have spent a number of years in an Italian speaking country.

Students will have their appropriate entry point determined by the Italian Studies Program, based on evidence of prior learning and/or results of a placement test as required. Please refer to the following link for further information: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/language-placement-testing

Students completing a diploma in Italian Studies will usually undertake 25 points at level one, 37.5 points at level two and 37.5 points at level three.

 

Subject Options

ITALIAN STUDIES 1 ENTRY POINT:

Italian Studies 1 entry point - Level 1

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 1 entry point are required to complete two of the following Level 1 subjects (25 points).


Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL10004 Italian 1
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL10005 Italian 2
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL10008 Italian 1 (Mid-Year Intensive)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 1 entry point - Level 2

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 1 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (37.5 points).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL20007 Italian 3
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20008 Italian 4
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20009 Italian Cultural Studies A
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 1 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 1 entry point are required to complete the following subject (12.5 points) and two additional elective subjects (25 points), one of which must be from Group A (see elective list below).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL30003 Italian 5A
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

ITALIAN STUDIES 3 ENTRY POINT:

Italian Studies 3 entry point - Level 1

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 3 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (25 points).

 

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL10001 Italian 3
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL10002 Italian 4
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 3 entry point - Level 2

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 3 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (37.5 points).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL20011 Italian 5
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20010 Italian 6
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20009 Italian Cultural Studies A
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 3 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 3 entry point are required to complete the following subject (12.5 points) and two additional elective subjects (25 points), one of which must be from Group A (see elective list below).

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL30015 Italian 7
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

ITALIAN STUDIES 5 ENTRY POINT:

Italian Studies 5 entry point - Level 1

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 5 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (25 points).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL10006 Italian 5
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL10007 Italian 6
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 5 entry point - Level 2

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 5 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (37.5 points).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL20002 Italian 7
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20003 Italian 8
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20001 Italian Cultural Studies B
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 5 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 5 entry point are required to complete the following subject (12.5 points) and two additional elective subjects (25 points), one of which must be from Group A (see elective list below).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL30001 Italian 9
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

ITALIAN Studies 7 ENTRY POINT:

Italian Studies 7 entry point - Level 1

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 7 entry point are required to complete the following subjects (25 points).

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL10009 Italian 7
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL10010 Italian 8
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 7 entry point - Level 2

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 7 entry point are required to complete the following two subjects and a second year elective (37.5 points).

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL20012 Italian 9
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL20001 Italian Cultural Studies B
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Italian Studies 7 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian Studies 7 entry point are required to complete three third year electives and at least two of these electives must be from Group A (37.5 points).

Group A electives - Level 2

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL20006 Languages of Venice: Study Abroad Not available in 2018 12.5
ITAL20004 Contemporary Italy Study Abroad
November (Off Campus)
 12.5

Group A electives - Level 3

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ITAL30007 To Hell with Dante
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL30013 Italian 5
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL30010 Imaging Italy Not available in 2018 12.5
ITAL30014 Italian 6
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL30016 Italian 8
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ITAL30012 Languages of Venice: Study Abroad Not available in 2018 12.5
ITAL30004 Italian Language in Focus Not available in 2018 12.5
ITAL30005 Contemporary Italy Study Abroad
November (Off Campus)
 12.5
ITAL30006 Italian Fictions
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Group B electives - Level 2

Code Name Study period Credit Points
EURO20007 A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EURO20006 Europe: Making and Breaking of Nations Not available in 2018 12.5
EURO20002 European Modernism Not available in 2018 12.5
EURO20005 Screening Europe: Image and Identity
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EURO20001 Language and Society in Europe
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EURO20003 Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe Not available in 2018 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
EURO20008 Experiencing Foodscapes: Italy & Spain
Winter Term (Off Campus)
 12.5

Group B electives - Level 3

Code Name Study period Credit Points
EURO30006 A Taste of Europe: Melbourne Intensive
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EURO30005 Europe: Making and Breaking of Nations Not available in 2018 12.5
EURO30003 European Modernism Not available in 2018 12.5
EURO30001 Language and Society in Europe
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EURO30002 Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe Not available in 2018 12.5
EURO30004 Screening Europe: Image and Identity
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
EURO30007 Experiencing Foodscapes: Italy & Spain
Winter Term (Off Campus)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
ARTS30002 Introduction to Language Translation
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Links

http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/

Last updated: 4 March 2025