Programme structure: Black Humanities (MA) - what's running in 2021/22

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
Black Humanities II	MODLM0044	20	Mandatory	TB-2
Black Humanities I	MODLM0043	20	Mandatory	TB-1
Please select one optional unit from the list below
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies	ENGL30111	20	Optional	TB-1
Postcolonial Environments	ENGL30122	20	Optional	TB-2
Literatures of Enslavement	ENGL30133	20	Optional	TB-2
Francophone Women Directors: Documentary Filmmaking	FREN30111	20	Optional	TB-2
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries	HISP30058	20	Optional	TB-2
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present)	HIST30095	20	Optional	TB-1
Race and Health in America	HIST30099	20	Optional	TB-1
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37010	20	Optional	TB-1
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives	MODL30026	20	Optional	TB-2
Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives	ARCHM0076	20	Optional	TB-2
Anthropology of Disability and Difference	ARCHM0083	20	Optional	TB-2
Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment	ARCHM0084	20	Optional	TB-1
Documentary Film and Television	FATVM0003	20	Optional	TB-1
Screening Nations	FATVM0017	20	Optional	TB-1
Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic'	HARTM0040	20	Optional	TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism	HISTM0017	20	Optional	TB-1
Post-Apartheid South Africa: Rainbow Nation and Insurgent Citizens	HISTM0083	20	Optional	TB-2
Race in America	HISTM0084	20	Optional	TB-2
Theorizing Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions	MODLM0025	20	Optional	TB-1
Supervised Individual Study	MODLM0049	20	Optional	TB-1,TB-2
Space, Comparison and Empire	MODLM0051	20	Optional	TB-1
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Progression/award requirements

The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Exit awards

All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.

Degree classifications:

An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds but is permitted in designated programmes (as set out in the programme specification) where students choose to withdraw from the intended programme but otherwise achieve the necessary credit points for the exit award.

The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:

Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.

Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.

* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.

** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.

Diploma/certificate stages:

All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.