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Italy in Contact - Literature, Arts, Languages and Сulturе
(Starting: Both Semesters)
- Starting
- Both Semesters
- Mode of Admission:
- Application:
- directly at university
- Study Mode:
- On campus
Course Description
This degree program mainly focuses on those core areas of Italian literature and culture studies as well as linguistics that share a connection with transcultural contact phenomena in the field of Italian-Romance cultures. An emphasis is given to contact phenomena from a linguistic, literary, or cultural background, for example in a territorial, ethnic, political, or religious context.
With a separate specialization, this degree program integrates interdisciplinary related subjects that are of special relevance for the Italian language and the corresponding cultural area. To do so, the compulsory elective components in the program are partially offered through cooperation. Students can choose to take European art history, history, music(ology), or Transcultural Studies. In this way, the interdependencies of the Italian language and cultural dynamics will be researched from an interdisciplinary perspective with related subjects.
The degree program is research-oriented. Students will be provided with well-founded knowledge of major theories of the modern-day era, which will serve as a basis for further specific and in-depth research. The main focus is on identity theories, the constitution of subject and alterity, transculturality, and nation-building as well as basic concepts to adequately describe phenomena of complex language contact situations. The subsequent target is to discuss terminologies, typologies, and concepts and to interlace perspectives from an aesthetics, linguistics, social, and cultural studies point of view.
Requirements
Qualification Requirements
Bachelor's degree in philology, cultural studies, or a course of study with essentially the same content.
Minimum standard period of study: 3 years.
Required ECTS crеdits: 180.
The final grade should normally be 2.5 or ECTS Grade B "good&quοt;.
Language Requirements
The following certificates are recognized as proof of your language proficiency.
English
GermanSpecification: A2.
Specification: A2.
Application & Admission
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Application Documents
The following documents must be enclosed with the application for admission or the application (or sent to the Romance Studies Department in electronic form if expressly stated below):
- Proof of the existence of the requirements specified above.
- A declaration as to whether the applicant has lost the right to take the examination at a domestic or foreign university in the above-mentioned master’s degree program or in degree programs with essentially the same content or is in an ongoing examination process for such a degree program.
- If the degree is a bachelor’s degree, a transcript of records of the achievements in this degree program.
- A tabular CV in German or Italian of at least two and a maximum of three DIN A4 pages (can be submitted electronically to the Romance Studies Department).
- A letter of motivation written and signed by the applicant personally in Italian, at least one and no more than two A4 pages long, in which the reasons for taking up the above-mentioned master's degree program at the Romance Studies Department of the University of Heidelberg are explained (can be submitted electronically to the Romance Studies Department).
- The name of a university professor or lecturer, who can be freely chosen by the applicant and who agrees to comment on the applicant's qualifications for the above-mentioned master's degree program upon request (by the admissions committee).
- A copy of the BA thesis or an equivalent thesis or comparable scientific paper that provides information on the applicant's suitability for independent scientific work. The thesis must be accompanied by a summary of the most important results in German or Italian, one A4 page long (can be submitted electronically to the Romance Studies Department).
- If available, evidence of vocational training, practical experience or other achievements which may provide particular information about suitability for the above-mentioned course of studу.
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