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

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Students must select either DRAM23125 or DRAM20048:
Performance Histories DRAM23125 20 Optional TB-1
Politics of Performance DRAM20048 20 Optional TB-2
Students may opt to take both DRAM23125 and DRAM20048, but can then only select 20 credit points from the Theatre units in the list below
Select 20-40 credit points from the Theatre units below:
Interpreting Plays DRAM23128 20 Optional TB-1
Popular Performance: Cabaret, Music Hall, Musicals and Revue DRAM23124 20 Optional TB-1
Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation DRAM23129 20 Optional TB-2
Choreography for Theatre DRAM20051 20 Optional TB-1
Early Modern Theatre Practice DRAM20056 20 Optional TB-2
Applied Theatre THTR20002 20 Optional TB-2
Choose open units OPEN 20 Optional
Students must take one of the following:
Literature 1740-1900 ENGL20063 20 Optional TB-1
Literature 1900-present ENGL20064 20 Optional TB-2
And either the other Literature unit OR one of the following:
Old English Language and Literature ENGL20065 20 Optional TB-2
Arthurian Literature ENGL20060 20 Optional TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians ENGL20061 20 Optional TB-2
Shakespeare ENGL20068 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the City: London 1550-1740 ENGL20069 20 Optional TB-1
Critical Practice ENGL20062 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the Margins ENGL20109 20 Optional TB-1
One of the following:
Elegy and Visual Culture ENGL20107 20 Optional TB-1
Darkest London ENGL29026 20 Optional TB-2
The Uncanny ENGL29027 20 Optional TB-1
Satire ENGL20022 20 Optional TB-2
Dangerous Books ENGL20023 20 Optional TB-1
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News ENGL20020 20 Optional TB-2
Black British Literature ENGL20041 20 Optional TB-2
Presenting the Future ENGL20044 20 Optional TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America ENGL20019 20 Optional TB-1
Travellers' Tales ENGL20024 20 Optional TB-2
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing ENGL20031 20 Optional TB-1
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception ENGL29032 20 Optional TB-2
Poetry of the 1960s ENGL20032 20 Optional TB-2
Revenge Tragedy ENGL29008 20 Optional TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English ENGL20028 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Writing the Working Classes ENGL20030 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry ENGL20051 20 Optional TB-2
The Author as Character ENGL20048 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing ENGL20049 20 Optional TB-1
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage ENGL20206 20 Optional TB-2
Beats & Crazies ENGL20034 20 Optional TB-1
Scottish Literature ENGL20039 20 Optional TB-2
Landscape, Poetry, and Aesthetics ENGL20053 20 Optional TB-2
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin ENGL20054 20 Optional TB-1
Sex and Gender at the Fin de Siècle ENGL20055 20 Optional TB-1
Utopian Literature ENGL20058 20 Optional TB-1
Rudyard Kipling ENGL29004 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to the Medical Humanities HUMS20004 20 Optional TB-1
The Age of the Anthropocene HUMS20005 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Digital Humanities HUMS20006 20 Optional TB-1
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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 in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

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