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Programme structure: French and Italian (BA) - what's running in 2016/17

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The following units are must pass: Mandatory French Language 2 and Italian Language 2. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
French Language 2 FREN20001 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
France 1940-44: Occupation and Resistance FREN20037 20 Optional TB-2
The Third Republic: France 1870 - 1940 FREN20036 20 Optional TB-2
Paris 1857-1897 FREN20041 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Francophone African Literature FREN20043 20 Optional TB-1
The French Language: Structures and Varieties FREN20044 20 Optional TB-1
Journeys Through Poetry FREN20046 20 Optional TB-2
French Fiction: from Realism to the 21st Century FREN20048 20 Optional TB-2
France and the Great War: A Cultural and Political History FREN20055 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to French Cinema FREN20056 20 Optional TB-2
Writing the Everyday FREN20057 20 Optional TB-1
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century FREN20058 20 Optional TB-1
Plus
Italian Language 2 ITAL20001 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
The Invention of the Renaissance Woman ITAL20029 20 Optional TB-2
Dante's Inferno ITAL20024 20 Optional TB-2
Boccaccio and the Italian Novella ITAL20030 20 Optional TB-1
Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change ITAL29007 20 Optional TB-2
Sport, Culture and History in Twentieth Century Italy ITAL20031 20 Optional TB-1
Students may choose up to two units from the following list:
Political Systems of Modern Europe MODL20008 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to Linguistics MODL23013 20 Optional TB-1
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-1
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe MODL20011 20 Optional TB-2
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Catalan Language (Elementary) MODL23014 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary) MODL23015 20 Optional TB-4
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).

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