Programme structure: History (BA) - what's running in 2016/17

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
Dissertation	HIST33101	40	Mandatory		TB-4
One Special Subject from the following:
The Intellectual Culture of the Twelfth Century (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37001	20	Optional		TB-2
Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37004	20	Optional		TB-2
Thatcherism's Legacy: The Political Economy of Britain Since 1990 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37009	20	Optional		TB-2
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37010	20	Optional		TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37011	20	Optional		TB-2
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37016	20	Optional		TB-2
Information in the Age of Discovery (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30036	20	Optional		TB-2
Partition (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30038	20	Optional		TB-2
History through Literature in Early Modern Europe	HIST30022	20	Optional		TB-2
Cacophonous City, Silent Lives: Life in Victorian London	HIST30049	20	Optional		TB-2
Leisure Landscapes of Modern Britain (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30077	20	Optional		TB-2
'The Rise of Political Lying'?: Rhetoric from Churchill to Blair (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30048	20	Optional		TB-2
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30078	20	Optional		TB-2
Lives and Letters (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30075	20	Optional		TB-2
American Empire	HIST30043	20	Optional		TB-2
Science and the Supernatural	HIST30044	20	Optional		TB-2
Documentary, Society and Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland	HIST30045	20	Optional		TB-2
1968 and its afterlives (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30081	20	Optional		TB-2
One Reflective History unit from the following:
Getting Acquainted with Friendship (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38002	20	Optional		TB-2
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38003	20	Optional		TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38006	20	Optional		TB-2
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38010	20	Optional		TB-2
Sexualities (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38011	20	Optional		TB-2
History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38013	20	Optional		TB-2
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38016	20	Optional		TB-2
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38018	20	Optional		TB-2
Modern Places (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38019	20	Optional		TB-2
Propaganda (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38020	20	Optional		TB-2
Community, Nation and Empire (Level H Reflective History Unit)	HIST30047	20	Optional		TB-2
Capitalism (Level H Reflective History)	HIST30073	20	Optional		TB-2
Borderlands: People and Places at the Periphery (Reflective History Unit)	HIST30079	20	Optional		TB-2
Filming the Past	HIST30021	20	Optional		TB-2
Two Lecture Response units from the following:
Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level H Lecture Response)	HIST39003	20	Optional		TB-1
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response)	HIST39009	20	Optional		TB-1
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response)	HIST39012	20	Optional		TB-1
The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30012	20	Optional		TB-1
Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30025	20	Optional		TB-1
Early Modern Italy (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30026	20	Optional		TB-1
Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30027	20	Optional		TB-1
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30028	20	Optional		TB-1
Hard Labour? The History of Work (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30030	20	Optional		TB-1
History in the Middle Ages (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30031	20	Optional		TB-1
Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30032	20	Optional		TB-1
The British World (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30033	20	Optional		TB-1
Big City Lights: Comparative Urban History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30074	20	Optional		TB-1
Colonizing Nature (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30072	20	Optional		TB-1
Global Cities (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30034	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may take one of the following units in place of a Lecture Response Unit in teaching block 1:
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Beyond the Battlefield: Environment and Conflict	HUMS30002	20	Optional		TB-1
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.

Additional progress information

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