Italian Language and Culture

Courses

The Master’s programme Italian Language and Culture is part of the Regional Sector Plan and is offered in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Utrecht University (UU).
Each student can follow courses at one of the sister institutes. More information about the sectorplan can be found here.

All Master’s students are expected to follow four courses (40 ects in total) and to write a Master’s thesis (20 ects). Within each specialisation students can choose from a yearly selection of courses.

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Programme Details
Objectives
Programme
Master’s thesis and requirements for graduation

Programme Details

Title: Master of Arts
Duration: 1 year, full-time
Start dates: September and February
Language of instruction: Italian

Objectives

In collaboration with the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the Leiden Italian
Language and Culture Department provides a master’s programme with a variety of
courses. Students can choose between three tracks: Italian Linguistics, Italian Literature
and Italian Linguistics and Literature.

Within these fields, a wide selection of annually changing courses is offered. In the
Linguistics track, the focus is on both theoretical and applied linguistics, the study of
language use and such subjects as language variation and the structure of argumentation.
The Literature track focuses on comparative literary studies, but also on the study of
Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present, in which the literary products are
studied within their cultural context to the greatest possible extent. Students who are
interested in both fields of study can choose a combination track in Italian Linguistics
and Literature.

After completing this programme, students will have the knowledge and competence
required for positions outside the university that require an academic level of thinking,
for an upper secondary teaching qualification or for a PhD position.

Programme

Sector Plan
The master’s programme is part of the Sector Plan and is offered in close collaboration
with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Utrecht University (UU).
Each student can take courses of at least 10 ects at one of the sister institutions.
All of these courses are taught in Italian.

Structure
The master’s programme consists of 60 ects: 40 ects of coursework in the form of seminars and a thesis carrying 20 ects. Students are required to submit their set of course options for approval with the co-ordinator
drs. E.M.T. Poolman

Master’s thesis and requirements for graduation

In order to graduate, students must have completed 60 ects of courses including their master’s thesis.
The master’s thesis for the programme in Italian Language and Culture carries 20 ects, generally consists of a maximum of 17,000 words (including notes, bibliography and appendices). The thesis is based on
the student’s individual original research and is related to one of the specialisations of the
Italian Language and Culture Department, namely: Literature of the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, Present-day Literature, Historical Linguistics or Modern Linguistics.
Students are required to discuss their choice of track and the structure of their
coursework beforehand with the co-ordinator drs. E.M.T. Poolman

Also see: hum.leiden.edu/students/regulations