BA History and Italian (with a year abroad)
About this course
BA (Hons) in BA (Hons) History and Italian (with a year abroad), an Italian and History degree focusing on language acquisition and historical analysis across global contexts. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory year abroad and offers optional teacher training modules in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The first year introduces foundational concepts through Intensive Italian Language and Cultures: Beginner, Understanding Italian-speaking Cultures and Societies, Knowledge and Beliefs in World History, and Evidence and Methods. The second year advances linguistic proficiency with Italian Language and Cultures: Advanced alongside Historical Thinking, while allowing optional focus in areas such as Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance and The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700. The final fourth year consolidates advanced proficiency through Italian Language and Cultures: Proficient, alongside optional study options including Translation: Methodology and Practice, The Mafia from its Origins to the Present Day, and a History Dissertation.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB including grade A in History/Classical Civilisation IB: 35 points, including 6 in History at Higher Level BTEC: DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in either History or Classical Civilisation at grade A
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What students say
Based on about 195 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 91%
- Learning opportunities: 82%
- Assessment and feedback: 78%
- Academic support: 94%
- Organisation and management: 78%
- Learning resources: 93%
- Student voice: 76%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 260 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 3%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 2%
What graduates do next
Based on about 70 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 56%
- Working and studying: 21%
- Further study: 13%
- Unemployed: 4%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 30%
- Sales occupations: 10%
- Secretarial and related occupations: 10%
- Information Technology Professionals: 10%
- Welfare and housing associate professionals: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 85%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 65%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 330 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 4%
- North West: 7%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 20%
- East Midlands: 5%
- West Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 13%
- London: 27%
- South East: 10%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 2%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 255 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 99%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Intensive Italian Language and Cultures: Beginner
- Understanding Italian-speaking Cultures and Societies
- Understanding Language in the Real World
- Structure of English
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Evidence and Methods
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies and Economies in World History
- Italian Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Historical Thinking
- The Role of Art in Italian Society
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- Plurilingualism, Multilingualism and Transnational Languages: Concepts, Strategies and Approaches
- Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789
- Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance
- Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200
- Black Radicalism
- Catherine the Great
- China: An Economic and Environmental History, 1870-1970
- Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450
- Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War
- Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800
- Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
- Difficult Pasts and Haunted Presents: Memory and its Discontents c. 1945- c. 2010
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine
- Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900
- Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past
- Kingship, Rule and Crisis in Medieval England
- Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
- Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States
- Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970
- The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
- Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
- Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages
- Italian Language and Cultures: Proficient
- History Dissertation
- Translation: Methodology and Practice
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Independent Study in Languages and Cultures
- The Mafia from its Origins to the Present Day
- Independent Study in Translation
- Empires
- Violence
- Animals
- Commemorations
- Travel
- Beauty
- Communisms
- Black British History and Decolonisation
- Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800
- Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean
- Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97
- Imperial Japan, 1890-1950
- Joan of Arc
- Mao and Maoism
- Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
- Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945
- Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, 1650-1750
- Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
- Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918
- Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960
- Reading and Writing in Medieval England
- Rebellion and Revolution: Britain, 1637-1653
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655
- The First Islamic Empire
- The French Wars of Religion
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA History and Italian (with a year abroad) at University of York earn?
The median salary is £29,000 after 15 months, £25,500 after 3 years, £32,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £26,000 and £43,500. The £32,000 median after five years is £1,000 less than the UK median for Italian studies.
What do graduates of BA History and Italian (with a year abroad) at University of York do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA History and Italian (with a year abroad) at University of York?
91% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA History and Italian (with a year abroad) at University of York?
The typical offer is AAB at A level, or 35 points in the IB. The average entrant had 154 UCAS points.
Does BA History and Italian (with a year abroad) at University of York include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and a compulsory year abroad.
How many students continue on BA History and Italian (with a year abroad) at University of York?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 3% left higher education.