What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Individual Project | AFAC10008 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Arts and Humanities Pathway - must also take: | |||||
What Does It Mean To Be Human? I: The Modern World | AFAC10010 | 40 | Optional | TB-1 | |
An Introduction to Study in the Arts and Humanities | AFAC10007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
What Does it Mean to be Human? II: From Modern to Ancient | AFAC10006 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Arts and Humanities Pathway - choose 20 CP from: | |||||
Representations: (Re)-making the World | AFAC10009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Social Sciences Pathway - must also take: | |||||
What Does It Mean To Be Human? I: The Modern World | AFAC10010 | 40 | Optional | TB-1 | |
An Introduction to Study in the Social Sciences | SPAI10007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Global Bristol | SPAI10008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Social Sciences Pathway - choose 20 CP from: | |||||
Representations: (Re)-making the World | AFAC10009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Economics and Finance Pathway - must also take: | |||||
Introductory Foundations of Mathematics | AFAC10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
An Introduction to Study in the Social Sciences | SPAI10007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Mathematics for Social Sciences | AFAC10014 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Foundations of Economics | AFAC10013 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Economics and Finance Pathway- choose 20 CP from: | |||||
Global Bristol | SPAI10008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Foundation in Arts and Social Sciences (CertHE) | 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.
Arts and Humanities Pathway
A student’s overall mark for the foundation year will consist of an average of their unit marks for:
Marks will be weighted to acknowledge the credit points for each unit.
For the purposes of this pathway, satisfactory completion is defined as achieving an overall pass mark of 40%.
Students who leave the University at this point will be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education. If the student achieves this award with an overall mark above 70%, the certificate will be awarded with distinction.
Social Sciences Pathway
A student’s overall mark for the foundation year will consist of an average of their unit marks for:
Marks will be weighted to acknowledge the credit points for each unit.
For the purposes of this pathway, satisfactory completion is defined as achieving an overall pass mark of 40%.
Students who leave the University at this point will be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education. If the student achieves this award with an overall mark above 70%, the certificate will be awarded with distinction.
Economics and Finance Pathway
A student’s overall mark for the foundation year will consist of an average of their unit marks for
Marks will be weighted to acknowledge the credit points for each unit.
For the purposes of this pathway, satisfactory completion is defined as achieving an overall pass mark of 40%.
Students who leave the University at this point will be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education. If the student achieves this award with an overall mark above 70%, the certificate will be awarded with distinction.
Progression to Undergraduate Study
A student may progress to an undergraduate degree in the relevant Faculty on satisfactory completion of the Foundation programme, where they meet our progression criteria (see below). However, we cannot guarantee that a student may progress to their first choice of degree, as this will depend on student demand in any given year, on the areas in which a student has chosen to specialise within the Foundation programme and on the evidence of their existing strengths and success in that discipline. Where a student cannot progress to their first choice, we will do our best to ensure they are offered a satisfactory alternative. It is not currently possible for students to progress to degrees in the School of Economics and the School of Accounting and Finance. Students will be able to progress to an undergraduate degree where they meet the following criteria:
(i) An overall average of 60% or above;
(ii) An overall average of 50% or above and at least one unit mark of 60% or above;
(iii) An overall average of 40% (i.e. a pass) or above, subject to a progression review meeting with relevant academic staff.
Students on the Economics and Finance pathway will need to achieve a unit mark of 60 or above for the units ‘Introductory Foundations of Mathematics’ and ‘Mathematics for Social Sciences’ to progress to a degree in the Schools of Economics and Accounting and Finance. Students who do not meet this additional criterion but do meet either (i), (ii) or (iii) above may be allowed to progress to degrees in other Schools in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law.