Programme structure: French and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Mandatory Unit FREN30001 and HISP30101 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
You may take up to two MODL-coded units from lists B-DE, including MODL30005. You must take at least 40 CP in
List A - Take 40 CP
French Language 3	FREN30001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees	HISP30101	20	Mandatory		TB-4
List B - Take 20 CP from this list
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions	FREN30030	20	Optional		TB-1
Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France	FREN30044	20	Optional		TB-1
Francophone Identities in the Visual Arts	FREN30099	20	Optional		TB-1
Culture, soft power and diplomatie d'influence: Exporting French culture from the 1870s to the present	FREN30133	20	Optional	B	TB-1
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca	HISP30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Imagining Other Worlds: Argentine Culture from 1940 to the Present	HISP30102	20	Optional		TB-1
The Novels of Carmen Laforet	HISP31026	20	Optional		TB-1
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Take 20 CP from this list
French for Business and Enterprise	FREN30047	20	Optional		TB-4
Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne	FREN30114	20	Optional		TB-2
Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades	FREN30117	20	Optional		TB-2
Transnational Encounters in the Francophone World	FREN30134	20	Optional		TB-1
Hispanic Sociolinguistics	HISP30056	20	Optional		TB-1
Spanish for Business	HISP30057	20	Optional		TB-4
Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present)	HISP30100	20	Optional		TB-2
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional		TB-4
Follow-on Portuguese	MODL30037	20	Optional		TB-4
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
List D - Take 20 CP from this list
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939	HISP30076	20	Optional		TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture	HISP30084	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance	HISP30092	20	Optional		TB-2
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World	HISP30098	20	Optional		TB-2
Revolutions in Fiction: Romanticism and Realism under the July Monarchy	FREN30118	20	Optional		TB-2
Studying and Making Early Printed Books	MODL30040	20	Optional		TB-2
Transnational Narrative in pre-modern cultures	MODL30041	20	Optional		TB-2
List E - Take 20 CP from this list
MODL30005 is mandatory for Single Honours Students
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional		TB-4
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society	MODL30016	20	Optional		TB-2
Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching	MODL30036	20	Optional		TB-2
List F - Take 20 CP from this list
Take 20 CP From UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists B to E above	OPEN	20	Optional
French and Spanish (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.

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