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Programme structure: Liberal Arts (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Take both of the following units:
Critical Writing in the Humanities AFAC10001 20 Optional TB-1
History of the Present AFAC10011 20 Optional TB-2
Numeracy requirement (may be deferred to year 2) - one of:
Arts Students Count AFAC10004 20 Optional TB-1
Convincing stories? Numbers as evidence in the social sciences UNIV10002 20 Optional TB-1
Students are normally expected to take AFAC10004 Arts Students Count, except in instances where timetabling arrangements prevent them from doing so.
Language requirement (may be deferred to year 2):
20 credit points in an ancient or modern language at appropriate level. PLEASE NOTE Students beginning a language pathway in Year 1 automatically meet this requirement.
Students then take 40 to 80 credit points in their prospective pathway (see below):
ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY - must take:
Peoples, Culture and Language ARCH10017 20 Optional TB-1
Evolution in Action ARCH10014 20 Optional TB-2
ANTHROPOLOGY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list
ARCHAEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take both of the following:
Discovering the Past ARCH10015 20 Optional TB-1
Archaeological Practice ARCH10016 20 Optional TB-2
ARCHAEOLOGY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - students must take two from:
Epic CLAS12361 20 Optional TB-2
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY OPTIONS - students choose from pathway units listed above, or from a defined list of options (which included Latin and Ancient Greek units which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme.)
ENGLISH PATHWAY - students must take one from the following:
Critical Issues ENGL10017 20 Optional TB-1
Approaches to Poetry ENGL10039 20 Optional TB-2
Critical Practice ENGL10041 20 Optional C TB-1
Literature 1150-1550 ENGL10042 20 Optional TB-1
Literature 1550-1740 ENGL10043 20 Optional TB-2
ENGLISH OPTIONS - choose additional units from the pathway units listed above.
FILM PATHWAY - students must take 20 credits from:
Introduction to Film and Television Studies FATV10005 20 Optional TB-1
FILM OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - students must take at least two from the following:
Introduction to Medieval Art HART10215 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Early-Modern Art HART10216 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to Modern Art HART10217 20 Optional TB-1
HISTORICAL STUDIES OPTIONS - Choose additional options from a defined list.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY - must take:
MEDIEVAL STUDIES OPTIONS - choose from a defined list
LANGUAGE: CZECH PATHWAY - must take:
Czech Language 1 RUSS10015 20 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: CZECH OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
LANGUAGE: FRENCH PATHWAY - must take:
French Language FREN10029 20 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: FRENCH OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
LANGUAGE: GERMAN PATHWAY - must take one of the following:
German Language 1 (Post A-level) GERM10009 20 Optional TB-4
German Language 1 (ab initio) GERM19003 40 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: GERMAN OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN PATHWAY - must take one of the following:
Italian Language 1A (Post A-level) ITAL10001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 1B (ab initio students) ITAL10002 40 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN PATHWAY - must take one of the following:
Russian Language (for qualified entrants) RUSS10036 20 Optional TB-4
Russian Language (ab initio) RUSS10001 40 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
LANGUAGE: SPANISH PATHWAY - must take one of the following:
Spanish Language (Post A level) HISP10001 20 Optional TB-4
Spanish Language (Ab-initio) HISP10116 40 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: SPANISH OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - must take:
Portuguese Language HISP10302 40 Optional TB-4
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE OPTIONS - students may additionally choose the following unit:
Key Moments in Lusophone History and Culture HISP10015 20 Optional TB-4
MUSIC PATHWAY - must take one of:
Historical Studies 1: Western Art Music (up to 1750) MUSI10045 20 Optional TB-1
Historical Studies II : Western Art Music (1750 to the present day) MUSI10046 20 Optional TB-2
Plus 20CP from:
Technical Studies I: Harmony and Harmonic Analysis MUSI10047 20 Optional TB-4
MUSIC PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - must take:
One of:
Introduction to Philosophy A PHIL10005 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Philosophy B PHIL10006 20 Optional TB-2
And one of:
Critical Reasoning PHIL10030 10 Optional TB-2
Introduction to Formal Logic PHIL10014 10 Optional TB-1
PHILOSOPHY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list.
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take:
RELIGION & THEOLOGY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list (which may include Sanskrit and Hebrew units) which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme.
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take:
Production and Design for Performance THTR10002 20 Optional TB-1
And one of:
Staging the Text THTR10006 20 Optional TB-2
Producing the Performance THTR10007 20 Optional TB-2
THEATRE OPTIONS - choose units from a defined list.
Should students have credit points available once they have selected their pathway units, then they may use these remaining credits to take optional units (within the Faculty of Arts) or may take Open Units (not totalling more than 20 credits) outside the Faculty of Arts.
Undergraduate Certificate   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).

Additional progress information

Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

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