116-412 Italian Honours Thesis

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The Honours thesis in Italian provides students with the opportunity of developing research techniques and benefiting from the experience of researching and writing an independent thesis on a topic of their choice. The thesis is normally written in Italian (10,000 words), but special permission may be obtained from the Head of the Italian section for the thesis to be written in English (in this case the student will write a 2,000-word summary in Italian). The main areas of specialization are Italian linguistics, dialectology, phonology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period (there is especial expertise in Renaissance studies and the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including migrant literature). It is also possible to negotiate theses on other topics with the permission of the Head of the Italian section after consultation with the appropriate lecturer.

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See Italian Studies Course Handbook for details.