Programme structure: Comparative Literatures and Cultures (BA) for 2022/23 entry cohort

Please be aware that while we make every effort to accommodate your first choice of optional units, on rare occasions it will not be possible to implement combinations of units from different subject areas owing to timetabling constraints.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
List A:
Comparative Literature Independent Research Project	MODL30033	40	Mandatory		TB-4
List B: Choose 20CP from either list B or list E
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions	FREN30030	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean	FREN30106	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Russia and the World, 1991 - present	RUSS30083	20	Optional	B,C	TB-1
Dress and Identity in Russia through the Ages	RUSS30086	20	Optional	C,E	TB-2
Political Islam	THRS30184	20	Optional	A,B	TB-1
List C: Take 20 CP
Literatures of Decolonisation	ENGL30147	20	Optional	C	TB-1
Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture	FREN30040	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean	FREN30106	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso	ITAL30059	20	Optional	C,E	TB-2
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional	C	TB-1
Russia and the World, 1991 - present	RUSS30083	20	Optional	B,C	TB-1
Dress and Identity in Russia through the Ages	RUSS30086	20	Optional	C,E	TB-2
List D: Choose 20CP
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation	ENGL30142	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture	FREN30040	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Visibility Matters: Identity, Diversity, and Power in the Cultural Marketplace	GERM30081	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America	HISP30086	20	Optional		TB-2
Studying and Making Early Printed Books	MODL30040	20	Optional		TB-2
Transnational Narrative in pre-modern cultures	MODL30041	20	Optional		TB-2
Decadence, Decay and Rebirth: Russian & Czech Literature, 1870 - 1914	RUSS30084	20	Optional		TB-2
List E: Take 20 CP from either list E or list B
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean	FREN30106	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Visibility Matters: Identity, Diversity, and Power in the Cultural Marketplace	GERM30081	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Intermedia Encounters in Poetry	HISP30104	20	Optional		TB-2
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change	MODL30015	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema	MODL30018	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Decadence, Decay and Rebirth: Russian & Czech Literature, 1870 - 1914	RUSS30084	20	Optional		TB-2
List F: Select 20 CP from this list or from list B-E above
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP, Faculty Wide Units	OPEN	20	Optional
Comparative Literatures and Cultures (BA)		120

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

• 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
• 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

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.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

• To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
• To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

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).

Degree classifications:

• First Class Honours 70 and above
• Second Class Honours, First Division 60-69
• Second Class Honours, Second Division 50-59
• Third Class Honours 40-49
• Fail 39 and below

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.