Italian

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

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.

Italian language subjects are organised in a progressive sequence (of units) from Italian 1 through to Italian 6 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 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 program. Accelerated progression is possible on advice from the Italian Program.

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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

A 100-point diploma sequence is available. The sequence is as follows for the three most common 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 (or equivalent).

• Italian 5 entry point: for students who have completed Year 12 VCE Italian (or equivalent)

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

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

For an example of a typical Italian diploma structure for each of the three entry points, please visit: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/lcr/

ITALIAN 1 ENTRY POINT:

Italian 1 entry point - Level 1

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

Italian 1 entry point - Level 2

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

Italian 1 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian 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).

ITALIAN 3 ENTRY POINT:

Italian 3 entry point - Level 1

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

Italian 3 entry point - Level 2

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

Italian 3 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian 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).

ITALIAN 5 ENTRY POINT:

Italian 5 entry point - Level 1

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

Italian 5 entry point - Level 2

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

Italian 5 entry point - Level 3

Students completing the diploma with an Italian 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).

Group A electives

Group B electives