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Programme structure: Modern Languages (Three Language Programme) (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Choose three from the following list (total 60 credit points)
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions FREN30030 20 Optional TB-1
French for Business and Enterprise FREN30047 20 Optional TB-4
Around Cubism FREN30096 20 Optional TB-1
Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades FREN30117 20 Optional TB-1
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean FREN30106 20 Optional TB-2
Leadership in France FREN30107 20 Optional TB-2
Intellectuals and the Media in France FREN30108 20 Optional TB-1
Theatre and Revolution FREN30124 20 Optional TB-2
Exiles and Migrants in German Literature GERM30058 20 Optional TB-1
Language Variation and Change in German GERM30074 20 Optional TB-1
After The Wall: Remembering the GDR TB-2 GERM30077 20 Optional TB-2
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema ITAL30046 20 Optional TB-1
Boccaccio's Decameron ITAL30063 20 Optional TB-2
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca HISP30029 20 Optional TB-1
Spanish for Business HISP30057 20 Optional TB-4
History of Latin America's Indigenous People HISP30068 20 Optional TB-2
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds HISP30070 20 Optional TB-1
Political Comedy, Social Tragedy: Protest and Conflict in Spain, 1875-1923. HISP30099 20 Optional TB-1
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 HISP30076 20 Optional TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture HISP30084 20 Optional TB-2
The Novels of Carmen Laforet HISP31026 20 Optional TB-2
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries HISP30058 20 Optional TB-2
Dostoevsky RUSS30063 20 Optional TB-1
Writing Revolution: Russian Literature, 1910-1940 RUSS30068 20 Optional TB-1
Independent Study 1 MODL30005 20 Optional TB-4
Liaison Interpreting MODL30006 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Translating in a Professional Context MODL30010 20 Optional TB-1
Multi- and Plurilingualism: Language Policies across Europe and Beyond MODL30038 20 Optional TB-1
Select one from:
French Language 3 FREN30001 20 Optional TB-4
German Language 3 GERM30001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 3 ITAL30001 20 Optional TB-4
Russian Language 3 RUSS30001 20 Optional TB-4
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees HISP30101 20 Optional TB-4
Select one from:
French Language 3 FREN30001 20 Optional TB-4
German Language 3 GERM30001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 3 ITAL30001 20 Optional TB-4
Russian Language 3 RUSS30001 20 Optional TB-4
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees HISP30101 20 Optional TB-4
Select one from:
German Language 3 GERM30001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 3 ITAL30001 20 Optional TB-4
Russian Language 3 RUSS30001 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language 3 RUSS30029 20 Optional TB-4
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees HISP30302 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language 3 RUSS30029 20 Optional TB-4
Modern Languages (Three Language Programme) (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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