University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: To be arranged.

This module allows students to pursue in greater depth more particular interests which fit with areas of expertise among the academic staff in Italian. This will take the form of extended study of topics in or across historical periods. Typical areas of study might be Renaissance humanism, love in early Italian literature, twentieth-century Italian literary and visual production, and postcolonial Italy. With the support of the academic staff, students can develop interdisciplinary research topics and pursue different theoretical lenses to Italian culture such as gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis, memory and trauma studies, biopolitics, modernity and modernity and colonialism, ecocriticism and postcolonialism, as well as migration, diaspora and race studies.

Relationship to other modules

Anti-requisite(s): You may not take any other variation of Specialised Research in Italian Studies.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1 hr lecture (1 week), 2hr seminar (3 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours: 7

Guided independent study hours: 286

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 0%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 100%

Re-assessment: Coursework = 100%

Personnel

Intended learning outcomes

• Be able to carry out independent research in Italian studies.
• Demonstrate ability to produce a critically-engaged literature review.
• Know how to plan, organize and time-manage a short research project.
• Show competence about working with primary and secondary sources together.