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Programme structure: English and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2020/21

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Mandatory Unit Spanish Language is must pass. 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
You must take at least 40 CP in Spanish units and at least 40 CP in English units
List A - Take the mandatory language unit plus either ENGL20063 or ENGL20064 from list D
Literature 1740-1900 ENGL20063 20 Optional TB-1
Spanish Language HISP20101 20 Mandatory TB-4
List B - Choose one 20cp unit from list B, list E or list E2
African American Literature ENGL20111 20 Optional TB-1
American Literature: 1945 to Present ENGL29007 20 Optional TB-1
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World ENGL20113 20 Optional B TB-1
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing ENGL20031 20 Optional TB-1
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin ENGL20054 20 Optional TB-2
Poetry of the 1960s ENGL20032 20 Optional TB-1
Revenge Tragedy ENGL29008 20 Optional TB-1
Performance Histories THTR20010 20 Optional TB-1
Politics of Performance THTR20005 20 Optional TB-2
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 HISP20076 20 Optional TB-1
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry HISP20115 20 Optional TB-1
Women's Writing and Filmmaking in Latin America HISP20108 20 Optional TB-1
Writing, Society and Politics in Franco's Spain HISP20038 20 Optional TB-1
Novels, Poetry and Politics in Twentieth Century Latin America HISP20077 20 Optional TB-1
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry HISP20115 20 Optional TB-1
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 HISP20076 20 Optional TB-1
Writing, Society and Politics in Franco's Spain HISP20038 20 Optional TB-1
Women's Writing and Filmmaking in Latin America HISP20108 20 Optional TB-1
Novels, Poetry and Politics in Twentieth Century Latin America HISP20077 20 Optional TB-1
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry HISP20115 20 Optional TB-1
Barcelona: Culture and Representations HISP20117 20 Optional TB-2
Catalan Language (Elementary) MODL23014 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary) MODL23015 20 Optional TB-4
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages MODL20021 20 Optional TB-1
Beginners Portuguese MODL20022 20 Optional TB-4
Writing the City: London 1550-1740 ENGL20069 20 Optional TB-1
Shakespeare ENGL20068 20 Optional TB-1
List D - Choose either ENGL20064 in this list or ENGL20063 in list A, and one further 20cp unit.
El Siglo de las Luces: Literature and Society in Spain 1700-1814 HISP20083 20 Optional TB-2
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain HISP21309 20 Optional TB-2
African Presence in Latin America: Nation and Representation TB-2 HISP20116 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to Latin American Cinema HISP20114 20 Optional TB-2
From Frontiers to Football: South American History 1850-1950 HISP20102 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World HISP20118 20 Optional TB-2
Literature 1900-present ENGL20064 20 Optional TB-2
Historical Linguistics MODL20017 20 Optional TB-2
Women and Nation TB-2 MODL20023 20 Optional TB-2
List E - Choose one 20cp unit from list E, list E2 or list B
Arthurian Literature ENGL20060 20 Optional TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians ENGL20061 20 Optional TB-2
Old English Language and Literature ENGL20065 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to Latin American Cinema HISP20114 20 Optional TB-2
African Presence in Latin America: Nation and Representation TB-2 HISP20116 20 Optional TB-2
From Frontiers to Football: South American History 1850-1950 HISP20102 20 Optional TB-2
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain HISP21309 20 Optional TB-2
Women and Nation TB-2 MODL20023 20 Optional TB-2
List E2 - Choose one 20cp unit from list E2, list B or list E
Black British Literature ENGL20041 20 Optional TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America ENGL20019 20 Optional TB-2
Dangerous Books ENGL20023 20 Optional TB-2
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage ENGL20206 20 Optional E TB-2
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News ENGL20020 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing ENGL20049 20 Optional TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English ENGL20028 20 Optional TB-2
Utopian Literature ENGL20058 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the Working Classes ENGL20030 20 Optional TB-2
The Art of Grief ENGL20116 20 Optional TB-2
John Berger and the 20th Century ENGL20123 20 Optional TB-2
List F
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP as follows: any 20 CP from lists B or C; any Spanish/Hispanic Modern Languages unit from list D; any 20 CP from list E OPEN 20 Optional
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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