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Programme structure: History and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

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Mandatory Unit HISP20101 Spanish Language is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms

You must take at least 40 CP of HISP-coded units and at least 40 CP of HIST-coded units

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Besides the mandatory units, you must take at least one further 20cp HIST-coded unit and at least one further HISP-coded unit
List A
Spanish Language HISP20101 20 Mandatory TB-4
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Mandatory TB-1
List B - Choose 20cp from either list B or list E
Global History HIST20112 20 Optional TB-1
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History HISP20119 20 Optional TB-1
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain HISP21309 20 Optional TB-1
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-1
List C - Choose 20cp
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 HISP20076 20 Optional TB-1
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry HISP20115 20 Optional TB-2
Barcelona: Culture and Representations HISP20117 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World HISP20118 20 Optional TB-2
Catalan Language (Elementary) MODL23014 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary) MODL23015 20 Optional TB-4
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages MODL20021 20 Optional TB-1
Beginners Portuguese MODL20022 20 Optional TB-4
Fear and Loathing HIST20117 20 Optional TB-1
Outlaws HIST20120 20 Optional TB-1
The Tudor World HIST20119 20 Optional TB-1
List D - Take HIST20089 and 20CP from either list D or list F
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula HISP20088 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to Latin American Cinema HISP20114 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World HISP20118 20 Optional TB-2
Historical Linguistics MODL20017 20 Optional TB-2
History in Public HIST20089 20 Mandatory TB-2
List E - Choose one 20cp unit from list E or list B
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry HISP20115 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World HISP20118 20 Optional TB-2
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Optional TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London HIST20099 20 Optional TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Optional TB-2
Early and Modern Paganism HIST20121 20 Optional TB-2
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field) HIST26015 20 Optional TB-2
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement HIST20122 20 Optional TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Optional TB-2
The Black Death in England HIST20125 20 Optional TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Optional TB-2
Global Development HIST20126 20 Optional TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective HIST20128 20 Optional TB-2
The Norman Conquest HIST20127 20 Optional TB-2
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States HIST20129 20 Optional TB-2
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages HIST20132 20 Optional TB-2
List F
Choose 20CP from UWLP or Faculty-wide units; OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists B, C, D or E above. OPEN 20 Optional
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).

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