Programme structure: History (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

Students may substitute History of Art units from the parallel options lists. Details will be provided by the School.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
History in Public	HIST20089	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Special Field Project	HIST23008	20	Mandatory	E	TB-2
For students who take optional unit HUMS20003, this may stand in place of one or more of the Year 2 units which are normally mandatory in this programme.
Choose one Special Field unit from the following:
The American West: An Environmental History (Level I Special Field)	HIST26004	20	Optional		TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field)	HIST26008	20	Optional		TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field)	HIST26010	20	Optional		TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field)	HIST26024	20	Optional		TB-2
Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field)	HIST20076	20	Optional		TB-2
After Empire (Level I Special Field)	HIST20081	20	Optional		TB-2
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers	HIST20036	20	Optional		TB-2
From Washington to Waco: Explorations in Twentieth-century Religion and History (Level I Special Field)	HIST20087	20	Optional		TB-2
Choose two Lecture Response units from the following:
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25003	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25006	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25007	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25015	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20021	20	Optional	B	TB-1
The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20023	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20028	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20052	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20079	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Modern Latin American Revolutions	HIST20042	20	Optional	B	TB-1
The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20086	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20098	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Students may take 20 credit points of open units in place of a lecture response unit.	OPEN	20	Optional
Students may take the following unit in teaching block two:
Study Abroad/ Erasmus	HUMS20002	60	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
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).

Additional progress information

Please note that not every optional unit runs each year. Please contact Department for details on unit availability.

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.