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Programme structure: Theatre and English (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Students must take 40 OR 60 credit points from:
Independent Study: Extended Essay THTR30017 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Independent Study: Dissertation THTR30018 40 Optional TB-2
Independent Study: Work Placement THTR30016 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Independent Study: Performance Project THTR30015 40 Optional TB-2
Up to 40 credit points from:
Devised Performance THTR30003 20 Optional TB-1
Contemporary British Theatre THTR30019 20 Optional TB-1
Translation and Adaptation THTR30007 20 Optional TB-1
Site-Specific and Immersive Performance THTR30006 20 Optional TB-1
The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices THTR30022 20 Optional TB-1
Choose open units OPEN 20 Optional
One from the following:
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction ENGL30115 20 Optional TB-2
American Revolutions ENGL30108 20 Optional TB-1
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace ENGL30117 20 Optional TB-2
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies ENGL30111 20 Optional TB-1
40 credit points from the following:
Creative Writing Dissertation ENGL30126 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Dissertation (English) ENGL39024 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Literatures of Slavery ENGL30113 20 Optional C TB-1
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics ENGL30110 20 Optional TB-1
Charles Dickens ENGL39020 20 Optional TB-2
Writing for Art ENGL39019 20 Optional TB-2
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism ENGL39027 20 Optional TB-1
Literature and Medicine ENGL39011 20 Optional TB-2
Twentieth-Century Women Writers ENGL30105 20 Optional TB-1
Prize Culture and Prestige in Contemporary Fiction ENGL30046 20 Optional TB-2
American Masculinities ENGL30048 20 Optional TB-1
Contemporary Literature and Science ENGL30049 20 Optional TB-1
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing ENGL30058 20 Optional TB-2
Victorian Materialities ENGL30079 20 Optional TB-2
Literature's Children ENGL39015 20 Optional TB-1
Illness Narratives ENGL30089 20 Optional TB-2
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature ENGL30069 20 Optional TB-2
Samuel Beckett ENGL30029 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography ENGL30107 20 Optional TB-2
Imagining Americans ENGL30121 20 Optional TB-2
Postcolonial Environments ENGL30122 20 Optional TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature ENGL30123 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present ENGL30124 20 Optional TB-1
Courtly Desire from Troubadours to Elizabethans ENGL30120 20 Optional TB-2
The Public Role of the Humanities HUMS30001 20 Optional TB-1
Students who are on the BA English and Classical Studies should choose the following dissertation instead of ENGL39024
Dissertation for English/Classical Studies ENGL39021 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Theatre and English (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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