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Programme structure: Music and German (BA) - what's running in 2019/20

Please note: Due to alternative arrangements for teaching and assessment in place from 18 March 2020 to mitigate against the restrictions in place due to COVID-19, information shown for 2019/20 may not always be accurate.

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

Mandatory Unit German Language is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
You must take at least 40 CP of GERM-coded units and at least 40 CP of MUSI-coded units
List A - Take a German language unit and the Music unit from either list A or list D
Approaches to Music History I MUSI20142 20 Optional TB-1
German Language 2 (Post A-Level) GERM20001 20 Optional TB-4
German Language post ab initio GERM20032 20 Optional TB-4
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list. Across Lists B and C, you must choose at least one of MUSI20099, MUSI20141, MUSI20058 and MUSI20057.
The Romantic Imagination MUSI20121 20 Optional TB-1
Music and the Holocaust MUSI20105 20 Optional TB-1
Hip-hop Music and Culture MUSI20071 20 Optional TB-1
Further Technical Studies MUSI20099 20 Optional TB-1
Writing for Orchestra MUSI20141 20 Optional TB-1
From Caligari to Hitler: German Film 1919-1945 GERM20033 20 Optional TB-1
Transnational Nation: Germany 1840 - 1990 GERM20047 20 Optional TB-1
Effi Briest and her Afterlives GERM20048 20 Optional TB-1
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
Cinema and Revolution MODL20020 20 Optional TB-2
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages MODL20021 20 Optional TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list. Across Lists B and C, you must choose at least one of MUSI20099, MUSI20141, MUSI20058 and MUSI20057.
Performance MUSI20058 20 Optional TB-4
Studio Composition Live MUSI20057 20 Optional TB-1
Hip-hop Music and Culture MUSI20071 20 Optional TB-1
Music and Migration in the 20th Century MUSI20085 20 Optional TB-2
Russian Opera MUSI20102 20 Optional TB-2
Music and the Holocaust MUSI20105 20 Optional TB-1
Music, Technology and Cultural Change, 1900 - present day MUSI20117 20 Optional TB-2
Transcription and Editing MUSI20056 20 Optional TB-2
The Romantic Imagination MUSI20121 20 Optional TB-1
Feminine Voices, Gender and Identity in Popular Music Culture MUSI20125 20 Optional TB-2
Transnational Nation: Germany 1840 - 1990 GERM20047 20 Optional TB-1
Effi Briest and her Afterlives GERM20048 20 Optional TB-1
Catalan Language (Elementary) MODL23014 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary) MODL23015 20 Optional TB-4
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
Cinema and Revolution MODL20020 20 Optional TB-2
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages MODL20021 20 Optional TB-1
Beginners Portuguese MODL20022 20 Optional TB-4
List D - Choose 20 CP. You must choose MUSI20143 from this list if you did not choose MUSI20142 in list A
Approaches to Music History II MUSI20143 20 Optional TB-2
Divided Germany (TB2) GERM20042 20 Optional TB-2
Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840 GERM20044 20 Optional TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Performance MUSI20058 20 Optional TB-4
Compositional Strategy MUSI20047 20 Optional TB-2
Transcription and Editing MUSI20056 20 Optional TB-2
Music recording and production MUSI20124 20 Optional E TB-2
Divided Germany (TB2) GERM20042 20 Optional TB-2
Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840 GERM20044 20 Optional TB-2
List F
Choose either 20 CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide units, or choose an additional 20 CP unit from lists A-E above OPEN 20 Optional
Diploma of Higher Education   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).

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