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

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Italian Language 3 ITAL30001 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
The Culture of Fascism ITAL30031 20 Optional TB-1
Naples: Culture, Identity and Nation ITAL30045 20 Optional TB-1
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema ITAL30046 20 Optional TB-2
The Renaissance Book ITAL30052 20 Optional TB-2
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s ITAL30050 20 Optional TB-2
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
Communism in Europe MODL30001 20 Optional TB-1
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change MODL30015 20 Optional TB-2
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study:
Catalan Language (follow-on) MODL30011 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on) MODL30012 20 Optional TB-4
Students take units in Music to the value of 40, 60 or 80 credits, from lists B and C.
LIST B options
Advanced Technical Studies MUSI30113 20 Optional TB-1
Musicology Project 1 MUSI30063 20 Optional TB-1
Composition Project MUSI30064 20 Optional TB-1
Studio Project MUSI30065 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Performance MUSI30066 20 Optional TB-4
Aesthetics and Criticism MUSI30029 20 Optional TB-2
Extended Study: Musicology MUSI30058 40 Optional TB-4
Extended Study: Composition Portfolio MUSI30059 40 Optional TB-4
Extended Study: Studio MUSI30060 40 Optional TB-4
Extended Study: Performance MUSI30061 40 Optional TB-4
Editing Project MUSI30139 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Musicology Project 2 MUSI30067 20 Optional TB-2
Analytical Techniques I: Schenkerian Approaches MUSI30050 20 Optional TB-2
LIST C options
Russian Opera MUSI30102 20 Optional TB-1
From Notation to Performance MUSI30104 20 Optional TB-1
Music in 1920's Paris MUSI30108 20 Optional TB-2
Cycles and Fragments: Lied and melodie in the Long Nineteenth Century MUSI30109 20 Optional TB-1
Hip-hop Music and Culture MUSI30107 20 Optional TB-2
Music and Migration in the 20th Century MUSI30111 20 Optional TB-1
Intertextuality in Music MUSI30106 20 Optional TB-2
Music and Italian (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

Students take 2,3 or 4 music options depending on weighting with Italian.

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