Programme structure: Liberal Arts (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Dissertation	AFAC30002	40	Mandatory		TB-4
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Students take at least 20 cps in their subject pathway at level 6:
ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Human Challenges	ARCH30034	20	Optional		TB-1
Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment	ARCH30051	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology	ARCH30039	20	Optional		TB-2
Visions: Experiments in Creative Anthropology	ARCH30047	20	Optional		TB-2
Human Challenges	ARCH30034	20	Optional		TB-1
Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives	ARCH30048	20	Optional		TB-2
Anthropology of Disability and Difference	ARCH30049	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Primatology	ARCH30050	20	Optional		TB-1
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
The Passions	CLAS30035	20	Optional		TB-1
Peoples and Places: Knowing the Ancient World	CLAS30047	20	Optional		TB-1
Women and the Family in Ancient Greek Tragedy	CLAS30027	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophies of Eros: Ancient and Modern	CLAS30043	20	Optional		TB-1
Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide	CLAS30023	20	Optional		TB-1
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality	CLAS32335	20	Optional		TB-2
Applied Classics	CLAS30039	20	Optional	D	TB-2
The Minoans	CLAS37018	20	Optional		TB-1
Pompeii	CLAS32345	20	Optional		TB-2
The Persian Empire	CLAS30010	20	Optional		TB-2
You may also choose between the following language units. Please note that students taking languages at level B and above must have the necessary pre-requisites.
Greek Language Level C1	CLAS32405	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level C1	CLAS32407	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level D1	CLAS30041	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level D1	CLAS30073	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level C2	CLAS32406	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level C2	CLAS32408	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level D2	CLAS32343	20	Optional		TB-2
ENGLISH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies	ENGL30111	20	Optional		TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature	ENGL30069	20	Optional		TB-1
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-1
James Joyce	ENGL30045	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature's Children	ENGL39015	20	Optional		TB-1
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
Twentieth-Century Women Writers	ENGL30105	20	Optional		TB-1
Representing HIV/AIDS	ENGL30141	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional		TB-2
Literatures of Enslavement	ENGL30133	20	Optional		TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Rewriting the Bible	ENGL30129	20	Optional		TB-2
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing	ENGL30058	20	Optional		TB-2
Modernist Writers	ENGL30140	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
FILM PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Contemporary World Cinemas	FATV30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	FATV30011	20	Optional		TB-1
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914	HIST30120	20	Optional		TB-1
Memory	HIST30113	20	Optional		TB-1
Horrible Histories And All That	HIST30119	20	Optional		TB-2
Global Empires	HIST30122	20	Optional		TB-2
Millennial Britain	HIST30125	20	Optional		TB-2
Capitalism	HIST30115	20	Optional		TB-2
Race	HIST30117	20	Optional		TB-2
Sexualities	HIST30118	20	Optional		TB-2
Art and Fashion	HART30051	20	Optional	A	TB-1
Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Lecture Response Unit)	HART30025	20	Optional		TB-1
Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic'	HART30048	20	Optional		TB-1
Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HART30043	20	Optional		TB-1
German Expressionism	HART30035	20	Optional		TB-2
Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean	HART30029	20	Optional		TB-2
Art and Internationalism (Level H Special Subject)	HART30042	20	Optional		TB-2
Vision	HART30040	20	Optional		TB-2
Prints	HART30046	20	Optional		TB-2
Approaches to the Artist (Reflective Art History Unit)	HART30007	20	Optional		TB-2
Audio-Visual Culture	HART30053	20	Optional		TB-2
Students can only take 20 credits of the below list;
Race and Health in America	HIST30099	20	Optional		TB-1
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37010	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
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37016	20	Optional		TB-1
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America	HIST30126	20	Optional		TB-1
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944	HIST30128	20	Optional	A	TB-1
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present)	HIST30095	20	Optional		TB-1
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932)	HIST30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Histories of the Polar Regions	HIST30102	20	Optional		TB-1
LANGUAGES - FRENCH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
French Language 3	FREN30001	20	Optional		TB-4
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions	FREN30030	20	Optional		TB-1
Around Cubism	FREN30096	20	Optional		TB-1
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean	FREN30106	20	Optional		TB-2
Intellectuals and the Media in France	FREN30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Francophone Women Directors: Documentary Filmmaking	FREN30111	20	Optional		TB-2
The Censor's Scissors, 1750-1830	FREN30112	20	Optional		TB-1
Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades	FREN30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne	FREN30114	20	Optional		TB-1
Leadership in France	FREN30107	20	Optional		TB-2
Theatre and Revolution	FREN30124	20	Optional		TB-2
The Alchemy of Influence: Imitation, Translation, and Creativity	FREN30131	20	Optional		TB-2
LANGUAGES - GERMAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Exiles and Migrants in German Literature	GERM30058	20	Optional		TB-1
German Language 3	GERM30001	20	Optional		TB-4
Language Variation and Change in German	GERM30074	20	Optional		TB-1
German Economic Policy Narratives	GERM30076	20	Optional		TB-2
After The Wall: Remembering the GDR TB-2	GERM30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times	GERM30075	20	Optional		TB-1
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Italian Language 3	ITAL30001	20	Optional		TB-4
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema	ITAL30046	20	Optional		TB-1
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso	ITAL30059	20	Optional		TB-1
Boccaccio's Decameron	ITAL30063	20	Optional		TB-2
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2)	ITAL30055	20	Optional		TB-2
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Russian Language 3	RUSS30001	20	Optional		TB-4
Writing Revolution: Russian Literature, 1910-1940	RUSS30068	20	Optional		TB-1
Life and Death with Stalin	RUSS30082	20	Optional		TB-2
Dostoevsky	RUSS30063	20	Optional		TB-1
LANGUAGES - SPANISH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees	HISP30101	20	Optional		TB-4
Hispanic Sociolinguistics	HISP30056	20	Optional		TB-1
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds	HISP30070	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance	HISP30092	20	Optional		TB-2
History of Latin America's Indigenous People	HISP30068	20	Optional		TB-2
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939	HISP30076	20	Optional		TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture	HISP30084	20	Optional		TB-2
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America	HISP30086	20	Optional		TB-1
The Novels of Carmen Laforet	HISP31026	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Comedy, Social Tragedy: Protest and Conflict in Spain, 1875-1923.	HISP30099	20	Optional		TB-1
Sports and Societies in South America: 1860-1930	HISP30097	20	Optional		TB-2
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World	HISP30098	20	Optional		TB-2
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees	HISP30302	20	Optional		TB-4
Hispanic Sociolinguistics	HISP30056	20	Optional		TB-1
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds	HISP30070	20	Optional		TB-1
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries	HISP30058	20	Optional		TB-2
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America	HISP30086	20	Optional		TB-1
MUSIC PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Aesthetics and Criticism	MUSI30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Music, Technology and Cultural Change, 1900 - present day	MUSI30124	20	Optional		TB-2
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI30107	20	Optional		TB-2
Music in National Cinemas	MUSI30143	20	Optional		TB-1
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences	PHIL30052	20	Optional		TB-1
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2	PHIL30116	20	Optional		TB-1
Virtue and Well-Being	PHIL30126	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Science	PHIL30049	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Psychology	PHIL30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy and the Environment	PHIL30112	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL30115	20	Optional		TB-2
Evil, Deviance, and Crime	PHIL30127	20	Optional		TB-2
Students can take one but not both of the following units;
The Philosophy and History of Medicine	PHIL30082	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Biology	PHIL30063	20	Optional		TB-1
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Atheism	THRS30050	20	Optional		TB-2
Buddhism in Practice	THRS30081	20	Optional		TB-1
Medieval Religion: Christianity and Islam	THRS30099	20	Optional	A,B	TB-1
Vatican II and post-conciliar Roman Catholic debates in theology	THRS30086	20	Optional		TB-1
The Body in East Asian Thought and Practices	THRS30098	20	Optional		TB-2
Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health	THRS30067	20	Optional		TB-2
Theology in the Twentieth Century	THRS30177	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras	THRS30077	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Sanskrit 1	THRS30171	20	Optional		TB-1
THEATRE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list.
Contemporary British Theatre	THTR30019	20	Optional		TB-1
Translation and Adaptation	THTR30007	20	Optional		TB-1
Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation	THTR30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Up to 40 credits may be taken in optional units, of which at least 20 credits must be at level H/6.
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching	MODL30036	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema	MODL30018	20	Optional		TB-2
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives	MODL30026	20	Optional		TB-2
The Cultural heritage of Historic Towns and Cities in Europe and Beyond	MODL30027	20	Optional		TB-2
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures	MODL30020	20	Optional		TB-1
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Liberal Arts (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.