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?
Mandatory Unit HISP30101 is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You must take at least 40 CP of HISP-coded units and at least 40CP of MUSI-coded units You may not choose both units of any of the following pairs in any combination: a) MUSI30059 and MUSI30064; b) MUSI30060 and MUSI30065; c) MUSI30066 and MUSI30061 | |||||
| List A - Take HISP30101. You may also choose one Music unit from this list | |||||
| Extended Study: Composition Portfolio | MUSI30059 | 40 | Optional | A,E | TB-4 |
| Extended Study: Performance | MUSI30061 | 40 | Optional | A,E | TB-4 |
| Extended Study: Musicology | MUSI30058 | 40 | Optional | A,E | TB-4 |
| Extended Study: Studio | MUSI30060 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Aesthetics and Criticism | MUSI30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Performance | MUSI30066 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Chamber Music Duos in Practice | MUSI30148 | 20 | Optional | A,D | TB-4 |
| Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
| List B - Choose one unit from this list, unless you take 60CP in list A or 40CP in list C | |||||
| Aesthetics and Criticism | MUSI30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Composition Project | MUSI30064 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Studio Project | MUSI30065 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Composing Live Electronics | MUSI30141 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Music and Sex | MUSI30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| 20th-Century Opera | MUSI30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Imagining Other Worlds: Argentine Culture from 1940 to the Present | HISP30102 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List C - You may choose one unit from this list, or from list F, or from both | |||||
| Music recording and production | MUSI30132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Hip-hop Music and Culture | MUSI30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Music and Sex | MUSI30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Romantic Imagination | MUSI30130 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present) | HISP30100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Czech Language (follow-on) | MODL30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Follow-on Portuguese | MODL30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
| List D – Choose 20CP from this list, unless you choose a 40CP unit in list A or list C | |||||
| Performance | MUSI30066 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Advanced Technical Studies | MUSI30113 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| 20th-Century Opera | MUSI30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Chamber Music Duos in Practice | MUSI30148 | 20 | Optional | A,D | TB-4 |
| The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture | HISP30084 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance | HISP30092 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 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 | |
| List E - Choose 20CP from this list | |||||
| Extended Study: Musicology | MUSI30058 | 40 | Optional | A,E | TB-4 |
| Extended Study: Composition Portfolio | MUSI30059 | 40 | Optional | A,E | TB-4 |
| Extended Study: Studio | MUSI30060 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Extended Study: Performance | MUSI30061 | 40 | Optional | A,E | TB-4 |
| Music recording and production | MUSI30132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Hip-hop Music and Culture | MUSI30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| MODL30005 is mandatory for Single Honours Students | |||||
| Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society | MODL30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching | MODL30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List F - You may choose one 20CP unit from this list, or from list C, or from both | |||||
| Choose either 20 CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide units, or choose an additional 20 CP unit from lists A-E above | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
| Music and Spanish (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.
An oral distinction may be awarded.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes
