Italian with Film Studies

Italian with Film Studies is a programme that pairs the linguistic and cultural richness of one of Europe's great languages with a critical discipline devoted to the most powerful art form of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Italian opens access to a civilisation of extraordinary depth: Renaissance art, opera, Dante, Calvino, Fellini, a design tradition that shapes global taste, and a modern society that continues to generate major literature, cinema, and cultural debate. Film studies, meanwhile, develops your capacity to analyse moving images as texts, examining how films communicate meaning through cinematography, editing, sound, narrative structure, and genre, and situating those choices within industrial, historical, and ideological contexts.

University College London's four-year full-time Italian with Film Studies programme is taught within one of the country's leading modern languages departments, and it takes both subjects seriously. Your language study will develop Italian from the foundations through to advanced fluency, covering spoken language, reading, writing, and translation, while engaging with Italian literary and cultural history. You will read major writers and thinkers in the original, and you will develop the cultural knowledge to understand Italy's contemporary significance.

Your film studies work will engage with cinema from an international perspective, with particular attention to Italian cinema, one of the richest national cinemas in the world, but also to broader questions of film theory, genre, and spectatorship. UCL's London location gives you access to major film archives and institutions, which enrich your practical and critical engagement with the subject.

A typical entry tariff of 184 points reflects the competitive admissions context and the intellectual demands of the degree.

Graduates pursue careers in translation and interpreting, journalism, publishing, broadcasting, film production and distribution, arts administration, the civil service, international business, and academia. Postgraduate routes include Italian studies, film studies, translation, and cultural policy.