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

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Overall, students must choose at least 40 CP of ENGL-coded and at least 40 CP of CLAS-coded units
List A - Take 20 CP
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace ENGL30117 20 Optional TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction ENGL30115 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level A1 CLAS30006 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level A1 CLAS30008 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level B1 CLAS30033 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level B1 CLAS30036 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level D1 CLAS30073 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level C1 CLAS32405 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level C1 CLAS32407 20 Optional TB-1
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality CLAS32335 20 Optional TB-2
Pompeii CLAS32345 20 Optional TB-2
Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide CLAS30023 20 Optional TB-1
The Minoans CLAS37018 20 Optional TB-1
The Passions CLAS30035 20 Optional TB-1
The Persian Empire CLAS30010 20 Optional TB-2
Women and the Family in Ancient Greek Tragedy CLAS30027 20 Optional TB-1
Peoples and Places: Knowing the Ancient World CLAS30047 20 Optional TB-1
List C - Take 20 CP
Postcolonial Environments ENGL30122 20 Optional TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature ENGL30123 20 Optional TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present ENGL30124 20 Optional TB-1
American Revolutions ENGL30108 20 Optional TB-1
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies ENGL30111 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level A1 CLAS30006 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level A1 CLAS30008 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level B1 CLAS30033 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level B1 CLAS30036 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level D1 CLAS30073 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level C1 CLAS32405 20 Optional TB-1
Latin Language Level C1 CLAS32407 20 Optional TB-1
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality CLAS32335 20 Optional TB-2
Pompeii CLAS32345 20 Optional TB-2
The Minoans CLAS37018 20 Optional TB-1
The Passions CLAS30035 20 Optional TB-1
The Persian Empire CLAS30010 20 Optional TB-2
Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide CLAS30023 20 Optional TB-1
Women and the Family in Ancient Greek Tragedy CLAS30027 20 Optional TB-1
Greek Language Level A2 CLAS30007 20 Optional TB-2
Latin Language Level A2 CLAS30009 20 Optional TB-2
Greek Language Level B2 CLAS30037 20 Optional TB-2
Latin Language Level B2 CLAS30034 20 Optional TB-2
Greek Language Level C2 CLAS32406 20 Optional TB-2
Latin Language Level C2 CLAS32408 20 Optional TB-2
List D - Take 20 CP
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics ENGL30110 20 Optional TB-2
Literatures of Enslavement ENGL30133 20 Optional TB-2
Applied Classics CLAS30039 20 Optional D TB-2
List E - Take one unit
Dissertation CLAS32315 40 Optional TB-4
Dissertation ENGL30112 40 Optional TB-4
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list F
James Joyce ENGL30045 20 Optional TB-1
Illness Narratives ENGL30089 20 Optional TB-1
Literature and Medicine ENGL39011 20 Optional TB-2
Postcolonial Environments ENGL30122 20 Optional TB-2
Rewriting the Bible ENGL30129 20 Optional TB-2
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing ENGL30058 20 Optional TB-2
Writing for Art ENGL39019 20 Optional TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography ENGL30107 20 Optional TB-2
Modernist Writers ENGL30140 20 Optional TB-2
Postcolonial Environments ENGL30122 20 Optional TB-2
Rewriting the Bible ENGL30129 20 Optional TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature ENGL30123 20 Optional TB-2
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list E2
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A, C OR D. However, you may not take both ENGL39024 and ENGL30112 [40CP English dissertation] in any combination. OPEN 20 Optional
English and Classical Studies (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.

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