Programme structure: English (BA) - what's running in 2020/21

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
List A - Choose 20 CP from this list
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies	ENGL30111	20	Optional		TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list if you also choose a 20 CP option from List E
American Nature Writing	ENGL30130	20	Optional		TB-2
Charles Dickens	ENGL39020	20	Optional		TB-2
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature	ENGL30069	20	Optional		TB-2
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-2
James Joyce	ENGL30045	20	Optional		TB-1
Kings, Queens, and Sycophants	ENGL30131	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature's Children	ENGL39015	20	Optional		TB-1
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
Twentieth-Century Women Writers	ENGL30105	20	Optional		TB-1
U.S. Postmodernist Fiction	ENGL30078	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-1
Beyond the Battlefield: Environment and Conflict	HUMS30002	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-2
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
Twentieth-Century Women Writers	ENGL30105	20	Optional		TB-1
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
List E - Choose one unit from this list
Creative Writing Dissertation	ENGL30126	20	Optional		TB-2
Dissertation	ENGL30112	40	Optional		TB-4
Dissertation (English)	ENGL39024	20	Optional		TB-2
Research Project on Literature and Community Engagement.	ENGL30208	20	Optional		TB-4
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional		TB-2
Literatures of Enslavement	ENGL30133	20	Optional		TB-2
Dissertation	ENGL30112	40	Optional		TB-4
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or list F
Charles Dickens	ENGL39020	20	Optional		TB-2
James Joyce	ENGL30045	20	Optional		TB-1
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Kings, Queens, and Sycophants	ENGL30131	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-1
Beyond the Battlefield: Environment and Conflict	HUMS30002	20	Optional		TB-1
Translation and Adaptation	THTR30007	20	Optional		TB-1
The Heart of Modern Fiction: Intimacy, Emotion, Form	ENGL30134	20	Optional		TB-2
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or list E2
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above. However, you may not choose both ENGL39024 or ENGL30112	OPEN	20	Optional
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.