Programme structure: English and Philosophy (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
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-2
Probability and Rationality	PHIL30078	20	Optional		TB-1
The Philosophy and History of Medicine	PHIL30082	20	Optional		TB-1
(b) Epistemology, Metaphysics, Mind, Language, History of Philosophy. Choose no more than 40 credits from:
Philosophy of Psychology	PHIL30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL30115	20	Optional		TB-2
Themes in Modern European Philosophy 2	PHIL30117	20	Optional		TB-2
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL30125	20	Optional		TB-2
Classical Chinese Philosophy	PHIL30128	20	Optional		TB-2
Black Philosophical Thought	PHIL30129	20	Optional		TB-2
(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
The Ethics of Migration and Citizenship	PHIL30118	20	Optional		TB-2
Feminist Philosophy	PHIL30123	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Economics	PHIL30124	20	Optional		TB-1
Virtue and Well-Being	PHIL30126	20	Optional		TB-1
Evil, Deviance, and Crime	PHIL30127	20	Optional		TB-1
What is democracy, and how should it work?	PHIL30131	20	Optional		TB-2
Students may not take PHIL30115 if they have already taken PHIL20049. Students may not take PHIL30125 if they have already taken PHIL20053.
One from the following:
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-2
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional		TB-2
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies	ENGL30111	20	Optional		TB-1
40 credit points from the following:
Creative Writing Dissertation	ENGL30126	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Dissertation (English)	ENGL39024	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Literatures of Slavery	ENGL30113	20	Optional	C	TB-1
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional		TB-1
Charles Dickens	ENGL39020	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Twentieth-Century Women Writers	ENGL30105	20	Optional		TB-1
Prize Culture and Prestige in Contemporary Fiction	ENGL30046	20	Optional		TB-2
American Masculinities	ENGL30048	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary Literature and Science	ENGL30049	20	Optional		TB-1
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing	ENGL30058	20	Optional		TB-2
Victorian Materialities	ENGL30079	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature's Children	ENGL39015	20	Optional		TB-1
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-2
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature	ENGL30069	20	Optional		TB-2
Samuel Beckett	ENGL30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-2
Imagining Americans	ENGL30121	20	Optional		TB-2
Postcolonial Environments	ENGL30122	20	Optional		TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional		TB-1
Courtly Desire from Troubadours to Elizabethans	ENGL30120	20	Optional		TB-2
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Students who are on the BA English and Classical Studies should choose the following dissertation instead of ENGL39024
Dissertation for English/Classical Studies	ENGL39021	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
English and Philosophy (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.

Additional progress information

Students may, with special permission, replace two Philosophy finals essays either by the dissertation or by level H units in other subjects.