Programme structure: Philosophy and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2017/18

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees	HISP30101	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than three units from the following list:
Popular Protest and Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain, 1875 - 1923	HISP30075	20	Optional		TB-1
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca	HISP30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Conquest and Colonisation: Spanish America, 1492-1700	HISP30032	20	Optional		TB-2
The Novels of Carmen Laforet	HISP31026	20	Optional		TB-2
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939	HISP30076	20	Optional		TB-2
History of Latin America's Indigenous People	HISP30068	20	Optional		TB-2
Spanish for Business	HISP30057	20	Optional		TB-4
Colombia: History and Culture since Independence	HISP30071	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Hispanic Fiction in Translation	HISP30072	20	Optional		TB-1
Themes in Latin American Film: Social Changes and Challenges	HISP30073	20	Optional		TB-1
The Cuban Revolution in the World: Culture and Politics of Internationalism	HISP30074	20	Optional		TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture	HISP30084	20	Optional		TB-2
Impressions of Dictatorship in Argentine and Chilean Cinema	HISP30085	20	Optional	B,C	TB-1
Students may choose up to two unit from the following list:
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional		TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language	MODL30013	20	Optional		TB-1
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society	MODL30016	20	Optional		TB-2
Reimagining Odysseus	MODL30019	20	Optional		TB-1
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures	MODL30020	20	Optional		TB-1
This unit is only available to students studying Programmes of French German or Spanish:
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study:
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional		TB-4
60 credit points should be chosen from the following list, with no more than 40 credits from (a), (b) or (c).
20 credit points may be chosen from:
First Extended Essay	PHIL30107	20	Optional		TB-1
Second Extended Essay	PHIL30108	20	Optional		TB-2
(a) Philosophy of Science, Mathematics and Logic. Choose no more than 40 credits from:
Philosophy of Science	PHIL30049	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences	PHIL30052	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Biology	PHIL30063	20	Optional		TB-1
The Philosophy and History of Medicine	PHIL30082	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science	PHIL30086	20	Optional		TB-2
(b) Epistemology, Metaphysics, Mind, Language, History of Philosophy. Choose no more than 40 credits from:
Philosophy of Psychology	PHIL30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Perception	PHIL30119	20	Optional		TB-1
(c) Value Theory (Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics). Choose no more than 40 credits from:
Ethics and Literature	PHIL30094	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy and the Environment	PHIL30112	20	Optional		TB-1
Death, dying and disease	PHIL30115	20	Optional		TB-2
The Ethics of Migration and Citizenship	PHIL30118	20	Optional		TB-2
Global Justice and Climate Change	PHIL30120	20	Optional		TB-2
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2	PHIL30116	20	Optional		TB-2
Themes in Modern European Philosophy 2	PHIL30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy and Spanish (BA)		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).

Degree classifications:

• First Class Honours 70 and above
• Second Class Honours, First Division 60-69
• Second Class Honours, Second Division 50-59
• Third Class Honours 40-49
• Fail 39 and below

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.