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 |
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Students must take 40 CP Film units and 40 CP Theatre units | |||||
List A - Choose between 20 CP and 60 CP from this list to a maximum of 1 unit for Theatre and 1 unit for Film | |||||
Independent Study: Performance Project | THTR30015 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Independent Study: Dissertation | THTR30018 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Television: Ideas and Industry | FATV30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary World Cinemas | FATV30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film Festivals | FATV30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List B - Choose 1 unit, 20 CP, from this list | |||||
Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism | ENGL39027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Independent Study: Extended Essay | THTR30017 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-1,TB-2 |
Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary World Cinemas | FATV30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film Criticism | FATV30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FATV30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list | |||||
Global Cinemas / Local Stories | FATV30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Digital Filmmaking | FATV30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Character Animation | FATV30021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Devised Performance | THTR30003 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Site-Specific and Immersive Performance | THTR30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices | THTR30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list | |||||
Industrial Placement | FATV30008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Political Film | FATV30018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Practical Project | FATV30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Industry Study | FATV30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Devised Performance | THTR30003 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Professional Development in Theatre and Performance | THTR30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices | THTR30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List E - Choose one unit from this list, unless you take THTR30018 or THTR30015 in List A | |||||
Written Dissertation | FATV30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Industry Study | FATV30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Contemporary Television Drama | FATV30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Independent Study: Extended Essay | THTR30017 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-1,TB-2 |
Professional Development in Theatre and Performance | THTR30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or a 40 credit unit from List A | |||||
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-D above. However, you may not take THTR30017 in any combination with THTR30018, or FATV30012 in any combination with FATV30002 (40 CP FATV dissertation) | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Theatre and Film (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.