Programme structure: Philosophy and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2016/17

Mandatory Unit Spanish 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
Realism and Normativity	PHIL20046	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Spanish Language	HISP20101	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose one but no more than two units from the following list:
Writing, Society and Politics in Franco's Spain	HISP20038	20	Optional		TB-2
Novels, Poetry and Politics in Twentieth Century Latin America	HISP20077	20	Optional		TB-1
Race, Religion, and Gender: Readings in the History of the Iberian Atlantic World, 1430-1830	HISP20062	20	Optional		TB-2
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain	HISP21309	20	Optional		TB-1
El Siglo de las Luces: Literature and Society in Spain 1700-1814	HISP20083	20	Optional		TB-2
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975	HISP20076	20	Optional		TB-1
From Football to Farandula: Latin American History 1916-2010	HISP20086	20	Optional		TB-1
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula	HISP20088	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Language Technology for Students of Portuguese	HISP20093	20	Optional		TB-2
On the Matter of Poetry: Concrete and Material Poetics in 20th Century Brazil and Chile	HISP20094	20	Optional		TB-2
Crime and corruption in contemporary Hispanic literature	HISP20097	20	Optional		TB-1
Identity and belonging in contemporary Venezuela	HISP20098	20	Optional		TB-2
Students may choose up to two units from the following list:
Political Systems of Modern Europe	MODL20008	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Linguistics	MODL23013	20	Optional		TB-1
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-1
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe	MODL20011	20	Optional		TB-2
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
40 credit points from:
Epistemology	PHIL20009	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mind	PHIL20010	20	Optional		TB-2
Ethics	PHIL20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Philosophy	PHIL20012	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Language	PHIL20017	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science	PHIL20037	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mathematics	PHIL20039	20	Optional		TB-2
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche	PHIL20041	20	Optional		TB-1
Logic 2	PHIL20036	20	Optional		TB-1
Death, dying and disease	PHIL20049	20	Optional		TB-2
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL20053	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).