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Programme structure: English and History (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
You must take at least 40cp of ENGL-coded units and at least 40cp of HIST-coded units
List A – Take HIST20112. Choose either ENGL20063 in this list or ENGL20064 in list D.
Literature 1740-1900 ENGL20063 20 Optional TB-1
Global History HIST20112 20 Mandatory TB-1
List B – Choose 20cp from list B, list E or list E2
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Optional TB-1
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World ENGL20113 20 Optional B TB-1
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing ENGL20031 20 Optional TB-1
Poetry of the 1960s ENGL20032 20 Optional TB-1
Revenge Tragedy ENGL29008 20 Optional TB-1
Rudyard Kipling ENGL29004 20 Optional TB-1
Performance Histories THTR20010 20 Optional TB-1
Politics of Performance THTR20005 20 Optional TB-2
American Avant Garde ENGL20114 20 Optional TB-1
Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature ENGL20126 20 Optional TB-1
Rudyard Kipling ENGL29004 20 Optional TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English ENGL20028 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Utopian Literature ENGL20058 20 Optional TB-1
List E – Choose 20cp from list E, list E2 or list B
Arthurian Literature ENGL20060 20 Optional TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians ENGL20061 20 Optional TB-2
Old English Language and Literature ENGL20065 20 Optional TB-2
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Optional TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London HIST20099 20 Optional TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Optional TB-2
Early and Modern Paganism HIST20121 20 Optional TB-2
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field) HIST26015 20 Optional TB-2
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement HIST20122 20 Optional TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Optional TB-2
The Black Death in England HIST20125 20 Optional TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Optional TB-2
Global Development HIST20126 20 Optional TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective HIST20128 20 Optional TB-2
The Norman Conquest HIST20127 20 Optional TB-2
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States HIST20129 20 Optional TB-2
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages HIST20132 20 Optional TB-2
List E2 – Choose 20cp from list E2, list B or list E
American Avant Garde ENGL20114 20 Optional TB-1
Black British Literature ENGL20041 20 Optional TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America ENGL20019 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry ENGL20051 20 Optional TB-2
Dangerous Books ENGL20023 20 Optional TB-2
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage ENGL20206 20 Optional E TB-2
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News ENGL20020 20 Optional TB-2
Rudyard Kipling ENGL29004 20 Optional TB-1
The Author as Character ENGL20048 20 Optional E TB-2
Writing the Working Classes ENGL20030 20 Optional TB-2
The Art of Grief ENGL20116 20 Optional TB-2
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin ENGL20054 20 Optional TB-2
The Author as Character ENGL20048 20 Optional E TB-2
List F
Choose 20CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty-wide units; OR choose an additional 20 CP from one of the lists above. OPEN 20 Optional
List C
Writing the City: London 1550-1740 ENGL20069 20 Optional TB-1
Shakespeare ENGL20068 20 Optional TB-1
Fear and Loathing HIST20117 20 Optional TB-1
Outlaws HIST20120 20 Optional TB-1
The Tudor World HIST20119 20 Optional TB-1
List D
History in Public HIST20089 20 Mandatory TB-2
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

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Exit awards

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  • 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.

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