Graduate Diploma in Arts - Italian

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.

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Duration: The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation is only available part-time and normally takes 2 - 3 years to complete. This specialisation is not available to international students.

All students undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Italian must complete the equivalent of a major in Italian through 100 points of study (8 x 12.5 point subjects, unless indicated otherwise)

Italian language subjects are organised in a progressive sequence (of units) from Italian 1 through to Italian 6 and beyond. Students may enter at any point, subject to prerequisites and/or placement testing and normally progress through the sequence in consecutive order. Accelerated progression is possible with the permission of the program convenor. Mid year entry is also possible in subjects with even numbers, subject to appropriate prior experience and approval from the convenor.

There are three standard entry points:

• Italian 1 Entry Point: for students who have little or no knowledge of Italian
• Italian 3 Entry Point: for students who have undertaken four or five years of secondary school Italian but not Year 12 VCE (or equivalent)
• Italian 5 Entry Point: for students who have completed Year 12 VCE (or equivalent)

The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

Italian 1 Entry Point

• eight compulsory subjects (100 points)

Italian 3 Entry Point

• eight compulsory subjects (100 points)

Italian 5 Entry Point

• eight compulsory subjects (100 points)

Total 100 points

Please note: students will have their appropriate entry point determined by the Italian 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://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/italian/italian-placement-test

Italian 1 Entry Point

8 compulsory subjects (100 points)

Italian 3 Entry Point

8 compulsory subjects (100 points)

Italian 5 Entry Point

8 compulsory subjects (100 points)