Programme structure: English and History (BA) - what's running in 2022/23

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Besides the mandatory dissertation, you will normally take at least 40cp of ENGL-coded units and at least 40cp of HIST-coded units, but you may replace one 20cp unit with a choice from list F
List A – Choose 20cp
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
The Italian Renaissance	HIST30110	20	Optional		TB-1
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30078	20	Optional		TB-1
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37016	20	Optional		TB-1
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37011	20	Optional		TB-1
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918	HIST30097	20	Optional		TB-1
American Dreamers: Radicalism in the United States from 1776 to the Present	HIST30131	20	Optional		TB-1
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present)	HIST30095	20	Optional		TB-1
Dark Pasts: Modern Histories of Night in Britain and North America	HIST30132	20	Optional		TB-1
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944	HIST30128	20	Optional	A	TB-1
The Mass Media in Modern Britain	HIST30133	20	Optional		TB-1
Histories of the Polar Regions	HIST30102	20	Optional		TB-1
The Age of the Human	HIST30103	20	Optional		TB-1
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America	HIST30126	20	Optional		TB-1
List C – Choose 20cp
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Literatures of Decolonisation	ENGL30147	20	Optional		TB-1
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914	HIST30120	20	Optional		TB-1
Memory	HIST30113	20	Optional		TB-1
Picturing the Twentieth Century	HIST30114	20	Optional		TB-1
List D – Choose 20cp
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation	ENGL30142	20	Optional		TB-2
Horrible Histories And All That	HIST30119	20	Optional		TB-2
Global Empires	HIST30122	20	Optional		TB-2
Millennial Britain	HIST30125	20	Optional		TB-2
List E – Choose one 40cp unit
English and History Dissertation	HUMS30003	40	Optional	E	TB-4
Practice-Based Dissertation (History)	HIST30129	40	Optional	B,E	TB-4
List E2 – Choose 20cp from this list or from list F
Charles Dickens	ENGL39020	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Modernist Writers	ENGL30140	20	Optional		TB-2
Rewriting the Bible	ENGL30129	20	Optional		TB-2
Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas	ENGL30145	20	Optional		TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-2
List C2 - Choose 20cp from this list or from list C2, or from list F
Race	HIST30117	20	Optional		TB-2
Sexualities	HIST30118	20	Optional		TB-2
Capitalism	HIST30115	20	Optional		TB-2
List F – Choose 20cp from this list or from list E2
Choose 20CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty-wide units; OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A, C, D or E2 above	OPEN	20	Optional
English and History (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.