爱丁堡的意大利文学硕士和意大利文学荣誉学位课程旨在培养学生对目标国家或地区的兴趣，以及对目标国家或地区的复杂知识和理解，包括他们的语言，历史，文化和社会问题。该计划旨在通过与广泛的课文和多种阅读方法互动，发展学生的批判，分析，语言和创造能力。通过提高单个学生的文学和批判能力，该计划使他们为社会做出贡献，在该社会中，对各种文本的理解至关重要。该计划为社会提供受过知识训练的个人的资源，他们可以充当英国和非英国文化之间的知识和理解的渠道，并利用所获得的知识为英国和其他国家的财富创造做出贡献。毕业生进入许多不同领
Combine language learning with literary study on this flexible joint honours programme. As one of Europe's most creative and diverse civilisations, Italy has a fascinating and influential cultural history.<br><br>This programme aims to develop your critical, analytic, linguistic and creative skills by engaging with a broad range of texts in both English and Italian, and a variety of approaches to reading.<br>Intensive language training, including a year in Italy, gives you the opportunity to develop advanced speaking, writing, reading and translating skills in Italian.<br><br>No previous knowledge of Italian is needed. Study with us, and you will learn the language in the context of some of the most famous and influential works of Italian literature, art and cinema.<br>You will gain the essential skills needed for the critical close reading of poetry, drama and prose and explore the cultural contexts of writing in English from the late Middle Ages to the present.<br><br>At honours level, you will select courses on the basis of your own interests in specific topics, periods or literary genres.<br><br>Combining literature with a language shows an openness to ideas and perspectives other than your own, an essential attribute in many careers and a global marketplace.