This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning progression and completion are held in the University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional requirements.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You must take at least 40 CP of English and at least 40 CP of Philosophy units | |||||
| List A - Choose one 20cp PHIL unit from this list. You may also opt to take one 20cp English unit from this list. If you do take 2 x 20cp units from List A, this would be in place of 1 x 20cp unit from Lists C,E2,F | |||||
| Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace | ENGL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction | ENGL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | C,D | TB-2 |
| Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences | PHIL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophy of Biology | PHIL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Ethics of Migration and Citizenship | PHIL30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Probability and Rationality | PHIL30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Evil, Deviance, and Crime | PHIL30127 | 20 | Optional | A,B | TB-1 |
| List B - Choose 20 cp from this list - f you take an English unit from this list, you may NOT take an English unit from List E2 | |||||
| Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature | ENGL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Illness Narratives | ENGL30089 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Modernism and the Movies | ENGL30128 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literature's Children | ENGL39015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Representing HIV/AIDS | ENGL30141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism | ENGL39027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing | ENGL30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Women on the Verge: Gender and Experimentation in the 20th/21st Century | ENGL30149 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography | ENGL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Women on the Verge: Gender and Experimentation in the 20th/21st Century | ENGL30149 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography | ENGL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Ethics of Migration and Citizenship | PHIL30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Probability and Rationality | PHIL30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Evil, Deviance, and Crime | PHIL30127 | 20 | Optional | A,B | TB-1 |
| First Extended Essay | PHIL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Philosophy and History of Medicine | PHIL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List C - lIf you take a 40cp unit from List E, choose 1 x 20cp unit from List C, E2 or F | |||||
| American Revolutions | ENGL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literatures of Decolonisation | ENGL30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophy of Biology | PHIL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Philosophy and History of Medicine | PHIL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | C,D | TB-2 |
| Philosophy of Psychology | PHIL30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy of Mathematics | PHIL30090 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Feminist Philosophy | PHIL30123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy in the Digital Age | PHIL30132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Themes in Ethics | PHIL30137 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List D - Choose 20 CP from this list | |||||
| Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics | ENGL30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Literature - Enslavement - Liberation | ENGL30142 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | C,D | TB-2 |
| Philosophy of Psychology | PHIL30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Death, dying and disease | PHIL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Themes in Modern European Philosophy 2 | PHIL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Feminist Philosophy | PHIL30123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy in the Digital Age | PHIL30132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Themes in Ethics | PHIL30137 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy of Mathematics | PHIL30090 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List E - Choose 1 x 20cp or 1 x 40cp unit from this list. | |||||
| Creative Writing Dissertation | ENGL30126 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Dissertation | ENGL30112 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Dissertation (English) | ENGL39024 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-2 |
| Second Extended Essay | PHIL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List E2 - If you take a 40cp unit from List E, choose 1 x 20cp unit from List C, E2 or F | |||||
| Charles Dickens | ENGL39020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Literature and Medicine | ENGL39011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Modernist Writers | ENGL30140 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas | ENGL30145 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The History of the Language of English Literature | ENGL30123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present | ENGL30124 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Writing for Art | ENGL39019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Victorian Materialities | ENGL30079 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Medievalism in the Modern Age | ENGL30150 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| List F - If you take a 40cp unit from List E, choose 1 x 20cp unit from List C, E2 or F | |||||
| Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
| Students may not take PHIL30115 if they have already taken PHIL20049 | |||||
| English and Philosophy (BA) | 120 | ||||
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
