Department of Italian

Download the Preliminary reading list for prospective IA students [in .pdf, 72kb]

For more detail on post A-Level preliminary reading, download this Reading List for post A-Level students [in .pdf, 100kb]

Papers available at the Italian Department 2012-13

Part IA (First year) Italian

Language Papers

Option A (ab initio)

• IT A1: Use of Italian
• IT A2: Translation from Italian and Oral A
• IT A3: Texts and Contexts

Option B (Post A-Level)

• IT B1: Use of Italian
• IT B2: Translation from Italian and Oral B

Scheduled Papers for Option B

• It 1: Texts and Contexts

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Part IB (Second year) Italian

Language Papers

Option A

• IT B1: Use of Italian
• IT B2: Translation from Italian & Oral B

Option B

• IT B3: Translation into Italian and Italian through audio-visual media

Scheduled Papers in Part IB

† Papers marked with a dagger may be replaced by a portfolio of essays under Regulation 23.

• It 2: Structures and varieties of Italian.
• It 3: † Italian Modernism This paper is suspended for 2012-13 and 2013-14.
• It 4: † Autobiography and Self-Representation in Italian Culture
• It 5: † Italian Identities: Place, Language, and Culture.

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Part II (Fourth year) Italian

Language Papers

• IT C1: Translation from and into Italian
• IT C2: Essay in Italian
• Oral C

Scheduled Papers

• It 6: Topics in modern Italian culture.
• It 7: Dante and the culture of his age.
• It 8: Italian Literature, Thought and Culture, 1500-1650.
• It 9: Text and Image. NEW FOR TRIPOS 2014
• It 10: The language of Italy.

Part II Comparative papers with an Italian component

* No candidate may offer more than one paper from among Papers CS 4-6.

• CS 1: The Romance languages.
• Papers CS 2, CS 3 and CS 4 are currently suspended
• CS 5: * A special subject in comparative literature (ii): The Body.
• CS 6: * Modern European Film.

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Some notes about Comparative and Borrowed papers in Part II