This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which
units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need
to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning
progression and completion are held in the
University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any
particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are
must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional
requirements.
What do the Levels represent?
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
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Year 1 (2022/23)
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Year 2 (2022/23)
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Year 3 (2022/23)
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Year 4 (2022/23)
The 3 language units chosen at stage 3 level 6 must follow on from the language units chosen in Year 2. The 3 language units chosen are must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit name |
Unit code |
Credit points |
Status |
Faculty of Arts Category |
Teaching Block |
Choose three from the following list (total 60 credit points) |
Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture
|
FREN30040 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
War Stories: Representation and Memory of Conflict in France since World War One
|
FREN30041 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
French for Business and Enterprise
|
FREN30047 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-4 |
Around Cubism
|
FREN30096 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Francophone Identities in the Visual Arts
|
FREN30099 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean
|
FREN30106 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Intellectuals and the Media in France
|
FREN30108 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
The Censor's Scissors, 1750-1830
|
FREN30112 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne
|
FREN30114 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Chantal Akerman's Cinema: Queering Conventions and Screening Desire
|
FREN30130 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
The Alchemy of Influence: Imitation, Translation, and Creativity
|
FREN30131 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Thinking Radically in Twentieth-Century France
|
FREN30132 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Exiles and Migrants in German Literature
|
GERM30058 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times
|
GERM30075 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Die Mitte: Centrist German Politics and its Language
|
GERM30079 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Visibility Matters: Identity, Diversity, and Power in the Cultural Marketplace
|
GERM30081 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema
|
ITAL30046 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2)
|
ITAL30055 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso
|
ITAL30059 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Boccaccio's Decameron
|
ITAL30063 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca
|
HISP30029 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Hispanic Sociolinguistics
|
HISP30056 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Spanish for Business
|
HISP30057 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-4 |
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries
|
HISP30058 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
History of Latin America's Indigenous People
|
HISP30068 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Contemporary Latin American History
|
HISP30069 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds
|
HISP30070 |
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 |
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World
|
HISP30098 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present)
|
HISP30100 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Imagining Other Worlds: Argentine Culture from 1940 to the Present
|
HISP30102 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Latin American Futurisms
|
HISP30103 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
The Novels of Carmen Laforet
|
HISP31026 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Dostoevsky (TB2)
|
RUSS30073 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Life and Death with Stalin
|
RUSS30079 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Decadence, Decay and Rebirth: Russian & Czech Literature, 1870 - 1914
|
RUSS30084 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Communism in Europe
|
MODL30001 |
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 |
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society
|
MODL30016 |
20 |
Optional |
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TB-2 |
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures
|
MODL30020 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-1 |
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives
|
MODL30026 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-2 |
Select one from: |
French Language 3
|
FREN30001 |
20 |
Optional |
|
TB-4 |
German Language 3
|
GERM30001 |
20 |
Optional |
A |
TB-4 |
Italian Language 3
|
ITAL30001 |
20 |
Optional |
A |
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 |
A |
TB-4 |
Italian Language 3
|
ITAL30001 |
20 |
Optional |
A |
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 |
A |
TB-4 |
Italian Language 3
|
ITAL30001 |
20 |
Optional |
A |
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 |
|
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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.
Additional progress information
An oral distinction may be awarded.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes