IT4022 Fascist Italy

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

TBC

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Prof D E Duncan

Prof D E Duncan
This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module Staff

Prof D E Duncan

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

This module explores the history of the fascist era through the study of a range of different creative forms including fiction, architecture, popular music, and the visual arts. There will be a particular focus on cinema (comedies, melodrama, historical epics, documentary) the art form that Mussolini called Fascism’s ‘strongest weapon’. We use these different cultural forms as prisms through which to investigate issues relating to national identity, colonialism, power and violence, resistance, and the construction and rejection of ideals of masculinity and femininity.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE ITALIAN HONOURS ADVISER

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar (1.5 hours) and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

15

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

132

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.