The course will focus on learning the language, but the program also includes an introduction to the history of Italian literature and culture. At the end of the course, students will have improved their active and passive understanding, both in their oral and written skills, of Italian. 

Students of modern languages and literature (general option) and students of French and Romance languages and literature who have taken this minor will, provided some additional entry requirements are met, be able to continue studying the Italian language and culture as part of the Masters electives. Furthermore, as part of the agrégation, Romance language students may, in addition to their didactical training in their basic discipline, take didactical courses in the Italian language and literature which will give them the possibility to teach Italian at a later stage.

For the minor in Italian studies, there are no entry requirements. An application form is available at the following address: 
http://zeus.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Valves/mineures/formulaire_min_ita.doc

• Academic supervisor : Agnès GUIDERDONI
• Secretaries : Claire DETRIXHE and Nathalie COISMAN

Enrolling on the minor

1. Organizational details
This point does not apply to this minor. 

2. Admission to the minor
So that adequate supervision can be guaranteed, the number of students admitted is limited to 25, with nor entry requirements. An application form can be downloaded at the following address: 
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/formulaire_min_ita.doc

3. Enrolling on the minor
http://www.uclouvain.be/2011-Loptionbac.html

In Year 2 of the bachelor’s degree
Students may enrol online for their minor after having enrolled for their year of study.
Students who are retaking their second year are automatically re-enrolled for the same minor.

In Year 3 of the bachelor’s degree
When they enrol for the third year, students are automatically enrolled for the second part of the option course. The same applies to students retaking their third year (BAC3).

All requests for exemption from this rule must be submitted to the adviser from the relevant programme.

4. Changes to the minor enrollment form
Requests to change the enrollment form, must be sent, with supporting reasons, to the conseiller aux études (course adviser) of the faculty to which the student belongs by 10 October.

Course timetable

1. Consulting the course timetable
The timetable can be consulted at this address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232660.html.

Last-minute changes are included in the section "valves étudiants" (student bulletin board) on the following site:  
http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html

2. Resolving possible timetable clashes using an equivalence table
The equivalence table may be consulted in the secretariat of the department which is running the minor. Contact person : the person in charge of the minor, for advice and approval of possible changes.  

Enrollment form for minor activities

1. Information on entry requirements
Rough guide to the restrictive courses: follow the instructions regarding the way the courses are spread out each year.  

2. Signing up for minor program activities  
Enrolment for activities (courses) in the minor should be done at the same time as enrolment for activities (courses) in the main subject.
Enrolment for courses is done by using the special menu in the virtual office.

3. Obtaining a visa from the person in charge of the minor   
Once the activities enrollment form has been completed, the student is required to ask for a visa from the person in charge of the minor before sending it to the secretariat of his/her faculty. 

Available support

1. Information on the course service
A certain number of lectures will, over time, be available on the Web and should ideally be accompanied by exercises that will make self-study possible.  
Please ask permanent members of course staff for more information. 

2. Consulting the table of support available for each activity  
Please ask permanent members of course staff for more information. 

Where alternative pedagogical systems are proposed for an activity, they are only intended for students who are enrolled on the activity in question as part of their minor and who have demonstrated that they are unable to attend classes. The written consent of the teacher will be required. 

Organization of exams

1. Registering for exams
Registering for minor course exams is done on the registration form for the main year of study (your department's secretariat).

2. Consulting exam times
Exam times can be consulted at the following address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232697.html.

N.B. : to register on the "open" lists for some exams, students should make direct contact with the central secretariat of the Faculté de philosophie et lettres.