Programme structure: Music (BA) - what's running in 2013/14

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
One or two units from:
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
LIST B: Remaining options from LIST B or LIST C
Advanced Written Techniques (Romantic Styles)	MUSI30062	20	Optional		TB-1
Musicology Project 1	MUSI30063	20	Optional		TB-1
Composition Project	MUSI30064	20	Optional		TB-1
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
Musicology Project 2	MUSI30067	20	Optional		TB-2
Musicology Project 2	MUSI30067	20	Optional		TB-2
Analytical Techniques II: Musical Appreciation and Criticism	MUSI39012	20	Optional		TB-2
At least one from LIST C
Monastic Cultures	MUSI39010	20	Optional		TB-2
The Film Musical	MUSI39011	20	Optional		TB-1
The Renaissance: Polyphonic Mass	MUSI39015	20	Optional		TB-2
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI30107	20	Optional		TB-2
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
20 credit points of Open Units	OPEN	20	Optional
Any other optional units from the above lists making a total of 120 credit points
Music (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

Subjects taken in year 2 may not be repeated in year 3.