Programme structure: Music and German (BA) - what's running in 2015/16

Mandatory Unit German Language 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
German Language 2 (Post A-Level)	GERM20001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Instead of the above, students who took German ab initio GERM19003 in their first year should take this unit
German Language post ab initio	GERM20032	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
Divided Germany	GERM22037	20	Optional		TB-1
Business German	GERM20029	20	Optional		TB-2
Historical Linguistics	GERM22038	20	Optional		TB-2
Aspects of Modern Sociolinguistics	GERM22029	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature and Politics, 1800-1871	GERM22039	20	Optional		TB-2
Spotlights on Anglo-German Relations: Literature, Media, Film	GERM20031	20	Optional		TB-1
'Talking to Tyrants' Politics, Thought and Drama in 1780s Germany	GERM20030	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Political Systems of Modern Europe	MODL20008	20	Optional		TB-2
Memory and History in the Twentieth Century	MODL20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Linguistics	MODL23013	20	Optional		TB-1
World Cinemas: from national to transnational	MODL23016	20	Optional		TB-2
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe	MODL20011	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Catalan Language (Elementary)	MODL23014	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary)	MODL23015	20	Optional		TB-4
Students take units in Music to the value of 40, 60 or 80 credits,from lists A and C, including at least one of the core units MUSIC20142 Approaches to Music History I or MUSI20143 Approaches to Music History II
Approaches to Music History II	MUSI20143	20	Optional		TB-2
Approaches to Music History I	MUSI20142	20	Optional		TB-1
List A
Compositional Strategy	MUSI20047	20	Optional		TB-1
Further Technical Studies	MUSI20099	20	Optional		TB-1
Transcription and Editing	MUSI20056	20	Optional		TB-2
Studio Composition Live	MUSI20057	20	Optional		TB-2
Performance	MUSI20058	20	Optional		TB-4
Writing for Orchestra	MUSI20141	20	Optional		TB-2
List C
Russian Opera	MUSI20102	20	Optional		TB-1
Intertextuality in Music	MUSI20068	20	Optional		TB-2
Music in 1920's Paris	MUSI20082	20	Optional		TB-2
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI20071	20	Optional		TB-2
Cycles and Fragments: Lied and melodie in the Long Nineteenth Century	MUSI20083	20	Optional		TB-1
Musics of Asia: Turkey	MUSI29007	20	Optional		TB-1
Russian Opera	MUSI20102	20	Optional		TB-1
Music in 1920's Paris	MUSI20082	20	Optional		TB-2
Music and Migration in the 20th Century	MUSI20085	20	Optional		TB-1
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI20071	20	Optional		TB-2
Intertextuality in Music	MUSI20068	20	Optional		TB-2
Diploma of Higher Education		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).

Additional progress information

Students take 2, 3 or 4 music options depending on the weighting with German. Students can choose from any list but can not take more than 2 units from list C.