FF FNIJpJ Italian Language and Literature
Name in Czech: Italský jazyk a literatura
master's full-time single-subject, language of instruction: Czech Czech
Included in the programme: FF N-IJ_ Italian Language and Literature

Parts of the final state examination and its content

The state final exam consists of two parts:
1) defense of diploma thesis;
2) oral exam on the following areas: history of Italian literature, textual criticism, linguistics and history of Italian language.

Requirements of the study

Students will take all the compulsory subjects and complete them up to the required amount of credits required with compulsory-elective subjects, choosing from two blocks according to the curriculum they have chosen (philological-literary or linguistics) and from the fifth block, which is common to both curricula .

Students work on the diploma thesis either in the philological-literary field or in that of linguistics, and have consultations with the supervisor on a regulary basis.

Suggestion of theses topics and the topics of defended theses

Theses that were successfully defended (just a few examples):

- Editoria e censura: stampare le opere letterarie nel Cinquecento italiano;
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/217900/ff_m/
- Il sentimento dell'individuo escluso nella Ferrara bassaniana
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/361889/ff_m/
- Gl’amori onesti del prencipe Sigismondo d’Arco con l’imperatrice Claudia d’I(n)spruch. Studio sul testimone conservato a Brno
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/263330/ff_m/
- I tipi di umorismo nelle opere di Stefano Benni https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/262100/ff_m/
- La novella del Grasso legnaiuolo secondo le diverse versioni in poesia e in prosa
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/399401/ff_m/
- Il discorso politico in Italia e la lingua di Matteo Salvini su Twitter
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/216803/ff_m_b1/
- I nomi dei prodotti farmaceutici italiani
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/382612/ff_m_b1/
- Espressioni idiomatiche contenenti un toponimo o un antroponimo: confronto tra italiano e ceco
https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/383805/ff_m/?fakulta=1421;obdobi=6269

Recommended progress through the study plan

Povinné předměty (32 kr.)

Students must take all these courses.
Please note that some of these compulsory courses must be taken in a certain order.
The philological-literary series, four subjects on three semesters, in this order:

  1. IJ2A221 Textual Criticism I
  2. IJ2A222 History of Italian Literature I (from the Origins to Dante)
    IJ2A224 Textual Criticism II
  3. IJ2A225 History of Italian Literature II (from Petrarch to Baroque)
And the history of language series, two subjects on two semesters (the first two courses are offered in the same semester and must be taken together in the very same semester), in this order:
  1. IJ2A231 History of Italian Language I
  2. IJ2A232 History of Italian Language II

Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2A221Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) I P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 1Z
FF:IJ2A222History of Italian Literature I (from the Origins to Dante) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 1Z
FF:IJ2A224Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) II P. Diviziazk 1/1/04 2Z
FF:IJ2A225History of Italian Literature II (from Petrarch to Baroque) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 3Z
FF:IJ2A231History of Italian Language I (from Vulgar Latin to Dante) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 1Z
FF:IJ2A232History of Italian Language II P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 2Z
FF:IJ2A235Italian Linguistics Ch. Cusimanozk 1/1/04 1Z
FF:IJ2A236Linguistics of Early Italian E. Mocciarozk 2/0/04 2Z
32 credits

Státní závěrečná zkouška

Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2A054Written Test P. Diviziaz 0/0/0 3 hodiny.- 4P
FF:IJ2A055comMaster's State Exam (single-subject) P. DiviziaSZk 0/0/0- 4-
0 credits

Povinně volitelné předměty (54 kr.)

Students ideally choose either the philological-literary curriculum (blocks 1+2) or the curriculum of linguistic (blocks 3+4), then they must take 54 credits of type B, most of which within the selected curriculum (ideally at least 32 credits, subject to the actual offer), plus 16 credits from the group of common subjects (block 5). Almost all the compulsory-optional subjects offered by the section of Italian studies can be taken more than once because the programme of the courses changes every year. It is recommended that students choose the curriculum with regard to the future topic of the diploma thesis. Students can consult the suitability of selection of subjects with the guarantor of the study programme and the supervisor of the diploma thesis. In the first semester, students are advised to take subjects from both curricula. Subjects that are not listed within the template (except for courses attended abroad, for example within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme) cannot be accounted for as credits of type B.

Bloky 1-4 - filologicko-literární zaměření nebo lingvistické zaměření (min. 32 kr.)

Blok 1+2 - filologicko-literární zaměření
Blok 1 - filologicko-literární zaměření (P)
Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2B001Early Italian Literature (A) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 1P
FF:IJ2B002Early Italian Literature (B) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 2P
8 credits
Filologia italiana II (facoltativa per gli studenti dei vecchi piani)
Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2A224Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) II P. Diviziazk 1/1/04 2P
FF:IJ2B004Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) II P. Diviziazk 1/1/04 2P
8 credits
Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2B005Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) III P. Diviziazk 0/0/24 3P
FF:IJ2B006Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) IV P. Diviziazk 0/0/24 4P
FF:IJ2B009Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (A) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 1P
FF:IJ2B010Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (B) P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 2P
FF:IJ2B011Authorial Philology and Criticism of variants P. Diviziazk 2/0/01 -P
FF:IJ2B012Authorial Philology and Criticism of variants P. Diviziazk 2/0/01 4P
18 credits
Blok 2 - filologicko-literární zaměření (-)
Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:AR1A312Latin Script and Book Culture in the Middle Ages II (1200-1500) D. Havelzk 1/1/04 2-
FF:ARTS006The Fall of an Empire or the Rise of Europe? I. Folettik 2/0/05 --
FF:ESA082Dante Alighieri: Art, Aesthetics, and Culture of the Middle Ages P. Osolsobězk 2/0/04+1 2-
FF:LJMedA05Latin Literature of the Medieval Europe from 5th to 11th century D. Stehlíkovák 1/1/04 1-
FF:LJMedA06Latin Literature of the Medieval Europe, 12th and 13th century P. Mutlovázk 1/1/04 2-
FF:LJMedB26Medieval itineracy to the other world L. Mazalovák 2/0/0 0.3 --
FF:PV2B105Medieval Fridays: selected issues from Medieval history from an interdisciplinary perspective D. Kalhousz 3/0/03 2-
FF:SJ2A003Latin American Literature D. Vázquez Touriñozk 1/1/4 kombinovaná forma: 14 hodin/semestr.5 --
FF:SJ2B006Spanish Contemporary Drama D. Vázquez Touriñozk 1/1/45 --
38 credits
Blok 3+4 - lingvistické zaměření
Blok 3 - lingvistické zaměření (P)
Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2B053Italian Dialectology E. Mocciarozk 2/0/04 1P
FF:IJ2B054Sociolinguistics of Italian E. Mocciarozk 2/0/04 2P
FF:IJ2B055Italian Linguistics Ch. Cusimanozk 2/0/04 3P
FF:IJ2B057Linguistics of Early Italian P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 3P
FF:IJ2B058Linguistics of Early Italian E. Mocciarozk 2/0/04 2P
FF:IJ2B060Linguistics of Italian in a typological perspective E. Mocciarozk 2/0/04 2P
FF:IJ2B064Italian Dialectology P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 2P
28 credits
Blok 4 - lingvistické zaměření (-)
Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:FJ2B036Computers in Romance Philology Ch. Cusimanozk 0/2/05 2-
FF:LgBB06Italic and Romance languages V. Blažekzk 2/0/05 2-
FF:LJMedA07Interpretative Seminar: Medieval Latin I D. Stehlíkovák 0/2/04 1-
FF:LJMedA08Interpretative Seminar: Medieval Latin II P. Mutlovák 0/2/04 2-
FF:PLIN035Computational Lexicography Z. Hladkáz 0/2/04 --
FF:PLIN041History of Computational Linguistics K. Osolsoběz 2/0/04 --
26 credits

Blok 5 - kurzy společné pro všechny studenty (16 kr.)

Students must take at least 16 credits from the compulsory-optional subjects of this block, independently of the curriculum they have chosen.

Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:ARTS004Homer and European literature I. Radovák 2/0/05 --
FF:ARTS016Literary Life at Medieval Universities P. Mutlovák 2/0/05 --
FF:DU1702Periods of Art History II: Middle Ages, Migration and the Birth of Europe I. Folettizk 2/4/010 --
FF:DU1713Seminar: Medieval Art from Constantine to Giotto II A. Palladinok 0/2/05 --
FF:LJ453Expert lectures D. Urbanovák 0/0/04 --
FF:LJ601Latin for the Non-Latinists I T. Weissark 1/1/04 1-
FF:LJ602Latin for the Non-Latinists II T. Weissarzk 1/1/04 2-
FF:LJ603Latin for the Non-Latinists III T. Weissark 1/1/04 3-
FF:LJ604Latin for the Non-Latinists IV T. Weissarzk 1/1/04 4-
FF:ROMIA051Italic and Romance languages P. Dytrtk 2/0/03 --
FF:ROM2B105Research Seminar - Guest Lecturers Series (A) P. Diviziaz 2/0/01 1-
FF:ROM2B106Research Seminar - Guest Lecturers Series (B) P. Diviziaz 2/0/01 2-
FF:ROM2B107Romance Philology (Filologia romanza) A P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 3-
FF:ROM2B108Romance Philology (Filologia romanza) B P. Diviziazk 2/0/04 4-
58 credits

Diplomová práce (30 kr.)

30 credits (Seminar I: 15 credits; Seminar II: 15 credits)

The diploma thesis must be written within the selected curriculum:
- students who choose the philological-literary curriculum can write a work in history of literature or Italian philology (textual criticism);
- students who choose the curriculum of linguistics can write a work in linguistics, dialectology, or history of Italian language.

Code Name Guarantor Type of Completion Extent and Intensity Credits Term Profile Cat.
FF:IJ2A051Master's Thesis Seminar I P. Diviziaz 0/0/015 3P
FF:IJ2A052Master's Thesis Seminar II P. Diviziaz 0/0/015 4P
FF:IJ2A053Master's Thesis P. Diviziaz 0/0/0- 4P
30 credits