Programme structure: Czech and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2015/16

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Czech Language 3	RUSS30029	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two from the following list:
A Kidnapped West?: Czech Literature since 1918	RUSS30066	20	Optional		TB-2
Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos?	RUSS30065	20	Optional		TB-2
Plus:
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees	HISP30101	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than three units from the following list:
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca	HISP30029	20	Optional		TB-2
Conquest and Colonisation: Spanish America, 1492-1700	HISP30032	20	Optional		TB-2
History of Latin America's Indigenous People	HISP30068	20	Optional		TB-2
Hispanic Sociolinguistics	HISP30056	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary Latin American History	HISP30069	20	Optional		TB-1
Spanish for Business	HISP30057	20	Optional		TB-4
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional		TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language	MODL30013	20	Optional		TB-1
The Radical Right: Nationalism and Fascism in Europe (1870-1939)	MODL30003	20	Optional		TB-2
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change	MODL30015	20	Optional		TB-2
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose the following unit:
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech and Spanish (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.