Programme structure: Social Policy (BSc) - what's running in 2018/19

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
Social Policy and the Welfare State: Historical Perspectives	SPOL10011	20	Mandatory	TB-2
Critical Skills for Social Scientists: Social Policy	SPOL10026	20	Mandatory	TB-1
Concepts and Ideologies of Welfare in the Contemporary World	SPOL10030	20	Mandatory	TB-1
Comparative and International Social Policy	SPOL10014	20	Mandatory	TB-2
Students choose 40 cp from the following list, including up to 40 cp of Open Units
Constructing Childhoods	SPOL10023	20	Optional	TB-1
Understanding Crime, Harm and Society	SPOL10020	20	Optional	TB-1
Contemporary Debates in Global Childhood	SPOL10024	20	Optional	TB-2
Segregation and inequality in the UK (measurement and debate)	SPOL10017	20	Optional	TB-2
Criminological Theory: An Introduction	SPOL10029	20	Optional	TB-2
Controlling Crime and Social Harm	SPOL10021	20	Optional	TB-2
Up to 40 cp of open units	OPEN	40	Optional
Certificate 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 are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions of the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
For further information and a definition of must pass units and conditional progression please see the Glossary of Terms.