Any student enrolled on first year V100 History, VM11 History and Politics, VL13 History and Sociology, V1V5 History and Philosophy or VQ32 English and History can apply. Please note the Venice degree is not open to other History joint hons or part time students.

The Venice term takes place in the first term of the final year.

Yes, there is a limit of 48 places. We cap the numbers we send on the Venice term for two reasons. First, the number of flats available to students in Venice is limited. Secondly, there are restrictions on the number of visitors at some of the sites we visit.

Applications will open to students in Term 2 of their first year of study. There will be a dedicated Venice information session where you can find out more information and ask any questions you may have. The application system will then open to allow you to apply. You will be notified if you have been successful in getting a place on the Venice degree before module selection for your intermediate year opens (normally end of Term 2).

All students who apply will be given equal consideration regardless of their degree programme; we do not reserve more places for V100 History students, for example. If there are more applications than places, we consider unauthorized absence levels (please note authorized absences for legitimate reasons will not impact your application) and your current academic performance.

Yes!

If you are considering applying for a year abroad in your intermediate year being a Venice student does not exclude you from this process. Almost every year we have students who are successful in both Year Abroad and Venice Term applications. Please read the

Year AbroadLink opens in a new window webpages for further information on this process.

Please check this site regularly, as circumstances can change. Please ensure that you have the documentation required.

UK Government advice about travel to ItalyLink opens in a new window

Please pay particular attention to the entry requirementsLink opens in a new window. If you do not hold an EU passport, you can only spend 90 days in any 180-day period in the Schengen Area. Any days you spend in the Schengen Area before the start of the autumn term count towards the 90-day total. Given the short duration of your study in Italy, you are ineligible for a study visa from the Italian government.

If you have Irish citizenship, please see the advice of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs about travel to Italy.Link opens in a new window

If you are considering leaving the Venice route and returning to your original degree path, please speak with the History Office in the first instance via History.Abroad@warwick.ac.uk. They can support you, discuss your questions, needs, and put you in touch with the Director of International Mobility who decides degree transfers.

Yes, if you are successful in getting a place on the Venice degree, the degree title you graduate with will change from the degree title for which you are currently enrolled. Once you have a place to study in Venice and you have successfully progressed through your first year, the History Office will organize and process a course transfer for you. There is no need to do anything yourself. When you start your intermediate year of study, you will be on your new degree pathway.

• V100 History → V102 History (Renaissance and Modern History Stream)
• VM11 History and Politics → VM13 History And Politics (With A Term In Venice)
• VL13 History and Sociology → VL15 History And Sociology (With A Term In Venice)
• V1V5 History and Philosophy → V1V7 History And Philosophy (With A Term In Venice)
• VQ32 English and History → VQ34 English and History (With A Term In Venice)

Yes. Students going to Venice have a slightly different curriculum. There is an additional required core module, HI2E9 Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Norms in the Medieval WorldLink opens in a new window that must be taken in your intermediate year of study before you can progress to the Venice term in the final year.

You MUST familiarise yourself with the syllabus requirementsLink opens in a new window for the course for which you are enrolled. In submitting an application to study in Venice, you will confirm that you have read and understood the changes to your syllabus in moving to the Venice degree. So please ensure you know the requirements and module availability for your chosen degree pathway.

Module availability for all History modules changes from year to year depending on staff availability and workload etc.

Yes. However, optionality is reduced.

• In your intermediate year, you have an additional core module (HI2E9 Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Norms in the Medieval WorldLink opens in a new window) which reduces the number of optional modules you can choose.
• In the final year, you will study one of the two optional modules taught by the Venice tutors. Currently these are HI3J3 Arts and Society in Early Modern EuropeLink opens in a new window and . These modules are taught in Terms 1 and Term 2.
• In addition, there is a limited number of optional modules available in Term 2 of the final year.
• Single Hons students take one additional optional module. You choose this from the two or three optional modules which are offered to Single Hons History students returning from Venice. History final year modules are all 30 CATS and most are taught in Terms 1 and 2. As you will not be at Warwick in Term 1, we offer two or three compressed 30 CATS modules in Term 2; you will receive the same teaching and contact hours but in a condensed timeframe. Given the limited number of History Single Hons students returning from Venice, only two or three optional modules are available to you in Term 2. As with all modules, these modules vary from year to year given staff availability.
• For Joint Hons students, you will normally return to Warwick and take modules in the non-History subject of your degree. As you will be in Venice in Term 1there may be fewer optional modules available to you in Term 2 than are available to students who do not study in Venice. When looking at the syllabus for your degree, please note that these optional modules vary from year to year given staff availability. Core module requirements will not change without consultation with students.

A range of support is available, and this will be outlined (together with ways to keep well) by Wellbeing Support Services in an online briefing in the June before you go to Venice.

Whilst you are in Venice, you can still access support from Wellbeing Support Services. This support includes online brief consultations, online wellbeing appointments, online and email counselling, online disability appointments, and online mental health mentoring sessions. You can find information about these on the WSS website.

The History tutors in Venice also act as personal tutors, and though they are not counsellors, they have supported many students with wellbeing issues. Even if they are not your personal tutor, you are welcome to discuss your wellbeing with them if you wish.

Many students with reasonable adjustments have studied successfully in Venice. If you wish, you can discuss your needs in confidence with the undergraduate administrator for Venice and the Venice Programme Co-ordinator.

Before you go to Venice, you will be given details of first aid points, chemists, and hospitals, together with emergency numbers.

While you study in Venice, you are covered by the University’s insurance policy. There will be an online briefing about this in June before you go to Venice. In addition, if you do not already have a Global Health Insurance Card, we encourage you to apply for one. You can do so here. You need the standard GHIC, and GHIC NOT the student GHIC.

If it is a medical emergency and you incur medical expenses (eg. a prescription), you pay at the chemist or hospital (should you be sent there), you should keep all receipts and documents given to you by doctors/chemist, etc. and then contact the University’s insurance services to submit a claim: insuranceservices@warwick.ac.uk

The main islands of Venice are relatively safe, though there are pickpockets, particularly in the main tourist areas and on the water buses. In June, before you go to Venice, the Warwick Community Safety Team will provide an online briefing. This will include details of emergency numbers.

While you study in Venice, you are covered by the University’s insurance policy. There will be an online briefing about this in June before you go to Venice. In addition, if you do not already have a Global Health Insurance Card, we encourage you to apply for one. You can do so here. You need the standard GHIC, standard GHIC NOT the student GHIC.

If you are a victim of theft, you need to make a statement (denuncia) at either the main police station (Questura) near Piazzale Roma or the police station (Commissariato) at Fondamenta San Lorenzo, near Piazza San Marco. You will need this statement when you make an insurance claim.

The cost of living (including flats and food) is comparable to that in Leamington or Coventry.

Venice is relatively small and you should be able to walk most of the time. This will allow you to engage with the city which is the reason you are there. Some of you may wish to use the water buses (vaporetti), you can find details (in English) on the ACTVLink opens in a new window website. You can also download an AVM app and pay for tickets for water buses (navigation) there.

Apart from the water bus tickets for the first site visit, all entrance fees and transport costs for site visits are paid for by the History Department.

You will pay for your flights to Venice and your accommodation there. The cost of living (including flats and food) is comparable to that in Leamington or Coventry.

While you study in Venice, you are covered by the University’s insurance policy. There will be an online briefing about this in June before you go to Venice. ,In addition, if you do not already have a Global Health Insurance Card, we encourage you to apply for one. You can do so here. You need the standard GHIC card GHIC not the student GHIC.

Venice is relatively small and you should be able to walk most of the time. This will allow you to engage with the city, which is the reason you are there. Some of you may wish to use the water buses (vaporetti), you can find details in English on the ACTV website. You can also download an AVM app and pay for tickets for water buses (navigation) there.

The History Department pays for all entrance fees and transport costs for site visits, except for the water bus tickets for the first site visit.

In recent years, all students taking the Venice Term have received funding from the Turing Scheme. However, as with other universities, Warwick must bid for this funding each year, and we cannot guarantee that it will be available or, if it is, how much you would receive.

As at Warwick, students can apply for Hardship Funding

UG first year:

• Term 1 - Students enrol and attend all welcome and induction sessions.
• Term 2—The Venice team will host an “Introduction to Venice” session for first-year students interested in learning more about the Venice degrees and how to apply. This meeting is an information session aimed at helping students to choose whether to choose the Venice degree or not. You can ask the Venice team any questions you may have.
• After this meeting the Venice application form will open to students. This will be the only opportunity for students to swap to the Venice degree.
• The end of Term 2, (dates TBC – normally week 9 & 10). The History module selection process will open for students to submit their module preferences for their intermediate-year study.
• The end of Term 3 (dates TBC – normally week 10) students will receive their History module allocations for the following year.
• Summer vacation – after the first-year results have been released, students who have passed and progressed to the intermediate year will be transferred to the Venice degree paths.

UG Intermediate year:

• Term 1 - Students enrol and attend all welcome and induction sessions.
• Term 2 - The Venice team (Jonathan Davies, Luca Molà and the Venice administrator Chiara Croff) will host a series of meetings for students.
• The “Venice Key Information –Accommodation” session is aimed at intermediate year students who will head to Venice in their final year. This meeting is about the practicalities of the Venice term: accommodation whilst in Venice; and accommodation for Terms 2 and 3 when students return to Warwick.
• You can then meet with Chiara in groups or individually to discuss accommodation options whilst in Venice.
• The end of Term 2 (dates TBC – normally week 9 & 10) - Module selection will open for students to submit their History module preferences for their final year study.
• June - There will be an online meeting to discuss the practicalities of the Venice term for all History and History of Art students due to go to Venice the following autumn. This meeting will be with Venice teaching staff and with representatives from Careers, Finance, Security, and Wellbeing. This will be followed be another online meeting to discuss the History teaching programme in Venice.
• The end of Term 3 (dates TBC – normally week 10) - Students will receive their History module allocations for the following year.
• Summer - Students who have passed the intermediate year and progressed to the final year can proceed to the Venice term.
• Summer - Students who have received a place will be transferred onto the Year Abroad and Venice course code. It is essential these students keep in touch with the department throughout their year abroad for any Venice updates as they will not return to study at Warwick between their year abroad and Venice term.

UG final year

• Term 1 – Students arrive and study in Venice
• Term 2 – Students return to and study in Warwick
• Term 3/Summer – Students complete assessments and graduate

UG First Year:

After the first year results have been released, students who have passed and progressed to the intermediate year will be transferred to the Venice degree paths.

• If a student does not proceed into the intermediate year in the summer exam boards but instead has any assessments in September (further first attempts/capped resits/deferrals) in order to pass the first year, their course transfer will not happen until after the September exam boards/the first year has been passed and an exam board has approved the student proceed to the next year of study.

UG Intermediate year:

Students who have passed the intermediate year and progressed to the final year can proceed to the Venice term.

• If a student does not proceed into the final year in the summer exam boards but instead has any assessments in September (further first attempts/capped resits/deferrals) in order to pass the intermediate year, their confirmation of proceeding to the Venice term will not happen until after the September exam boards/the intermediate year has been passed and an exam board has approved the student proceed to the next year of study.
• If a student still does not proceed to the final year at the September exam boards and needs to do further assessment without residence to pass the intermediate year, the student will not be permitted to proceed to Venice until after these intermediate year assessments have been passed and approved by the next exam board.

Venice Programme Co-ordinators and Tutors:

Jonathan Davies and Luca Molà

j.d.davies@warwick.ac.uk 

l.mola@warwick.ac.uk 

History UG Coordinator: Cerys Rosser

history.abroad@warwick.ac.uk 

Warwick in Venice Administrator: Chiara Croff

Venice@warwick.ac.uk

All students take the module HI3G9 Venice in the Renaissance. This is taught entirely in Venice during Term 1 of your final year. You also study one of the optional modules taught by the Venice tutors. Currently, these are HI3J3 Arts and Society in Early Modern Europe and HI3T4 From Fireplace to Cyberspace: The Folklore of Europe from Prehistory to the Present. These two modules are both taught in Terms 1 and 2 of your final year.

Your seminars will be held at Warwick’s base in Venice, the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin on the Grand Canal. Guided tours of the major monuments of Venice as well as visits to Palladian villas on the mainland and to the city of Mantua are a key part of the Venice in the Renaissance module.

All of the key reading and much of the further reading for your modules is available online. Warwick has its own library in Venice which focuses on Venetian history and history of art, particularly works in English. At the start of your term in Venice, you will be given a tour of the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari’s library (BAUM) which you are welcome to use. Information about libraries in Venice can be on the Readings and Libraries website.

You have a designated Senior Careers Consultant, Millie Tissut, who has extensive experience working with History students. She is familiar with the range of employment opportunities open to students of your discipline and can advise you on the relevant application processes.

In June before you go to Venice, Millie will give an online briefing about careers.

Millie can be contacted by email (careers@warwick.ac.uk). You may also make an appointment to see her through MyAdvantage.

Whilst you are in Venice, online support is available to you. This support includes one-to-one careers appointments with Millie or other careers consultants, CV and application review with job search advisers, and workshops on a range of topics from making applications to employer-led sessions.

• In Term 2 of your intermediate year there will be a meeting at Warwick to discuss your accommodation in Venice. This meeting is attended by Chiara Croff, Warwick’s administrator in Venice. You will then meet in groups or individually with Chiara to discuss your requirements. Chiara will then begin to find accommodation for you. Over several decades, we have built up a network of landlords and agents in Venice. Please note that this is not University accommodation and the contract is between you and your landlord. If you wish, you can arrange your own accommodation in Venice without Chiara’s assistance. However, this is at your own risk. You should ensure that it is safe and that it is on the main islands of Venice and not on the mainland.
• When you return to Warwick in January you are guaranteed accommodation on campus. In the intermediate year, you let Warwick Accommodation know that you will want this accommodation.