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Programme code | 1ARTF005U |
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Programme type | Single Honours |
Programme director(s) |
Karen Skinazi
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Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
School/department | Arts Faculty Office |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Mode of study | Full Time |
Programme length | 4 years (full time) |
The programme combines in-depth study in a discipline with a broader exploration of the arts and humanities. Mandatory units introduce students to overarching themes of fundamental importance in the academy and society. In the discipline pathway, the programme delivers a core competence and advanced knowledge and understanding in selected areas. In the broader curriculum the student will gain an understanding of the connections between his or her pathway and cognate disciplines while developing advanced knowledge and understanding in selected areas. The programme stresses both the historical and contemporary relevance of the arts and humanities, and provides opportunities for engaged learning or knowledge transfer with partners outside the university. All students will take at least one unit in a foreign language, and a unit in quantitative skills. Skills in writing, critical thinking and analysis are inculcated at all levels. The third year is spent abroad and will broaden educational horizons while developing independence, self-awareness and maturity as scholars. The final year of the programme (level M/7) will deliver advanced critical awareness of research contexts and techniques informed by work at the forefront of the discipline.
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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1 is acquired through mandatory units at Levels 4 and 5 and through the structure of the programme, combining a subject pathway with options in other subjects. 2–5 are acquired through mandatory units at Levels 4 and 5. 6 is acquired either by choice of a language pathway or by doing a unit in an ancient or modern language. 7 is acquired through a mandatory unit at Level 4. 8 is acquired through some aspects of mandatory units at Levels 4 and 5 and through an optional unit The Public Role of the Humanities at Level 7. 9 is acquired through mandatory and optional units in the subject pathway through to Level 7, including the Year Abroad (level 6), in which students will be exposed to sometimes radically different ways of approaching their subject, and required to undertake a formative assessment reflecting on their learning mid-year which will inform their remaining study abroad, and preparation for the final year. Level 7, which is worth 75% of the final result, consists entirely in level 7 units which naturally conform to the national framework. 10 is acquired through the Year Abroad. Mandatory Liberal Arts units are taught by means of one or more of the following: lectures, small classes (seminars), group discussion, student presentations, engaged learning with partners outside the University, peer-assisted learning, VLE tools (Blackboard), dissertation preparation tutorials. Directed reading and independent learning are important strategies, through weekly assignments, written coursework and, in the final year, an advanced piece of research (the dissertation) on a subject of the student’s choosing. Feedback on assessments is given through tutorials and written comments. Within the subject pathway additional teaching methods and strategies may be deployed such as fieldwork, practical sessions (e.g. archaeology, music, film) or language classes. Within the subject pathway additional teaching methods and strategies may be deployed such as fieldwork, practical sessions (e.g. archaeology, music, film) or language classes. |
Methods of Assessment | |
In the mandatory Liberal Arts units forms of assessment include: formative and summative essays testing understanding of a single topic within a unit in detail. Oral presentations provide diagnostic and formative assessment. Shorter exercises in core skills units, designed to assess research and communication skills, analysis and interpretation of evidence etc. In the fourth year, an extended project (the dissertation). In language units, regular tests and assignments. In subject pathway units additional forms of assessment will include some of: examinations, projects, portfolios, critical diaries and online contributions. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Intellectual skills are developed through seminars, tutorials, class discussions, oral presentations and essay writing. Units are structured in such a way as to promote the development of skills of research, analysis, synthesis and critical evaluation. 13 is delivered by the mandatory and optional units in the subject pathway. 14 is delivered by the mandatory units at levels 4, 5 and 6, by the structure of the programme which combines a subject pathway with options from other subjects, and from the level 7 dissertation which will draw upon what has been learned in the pathway and other units. 14 will be further enhanced by the Year Abroad (level 6) which will expose students to new and different ways of approaching their subjects, and to optional units not available at Bristol. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Essays and other forms of written assignment test the students' ability to analyse, evaluate and organise information, and to present reasoned arguments based on appropriate selection of evidence; research skills are also assessed through written coursework and the final year dissertation (1–10, 12). Oral presentations provide diagnostic and formative assessment of this skill (3). Accompanying written reports after oral feedback, seminar discussion and/or peer review assess 11. 13 is assessed by methods appropriate to the discipline in mandatory and optional units at all levels but especially 7. 14 is assessed by assignments in the mandatory units and by the level 7 dissertation. 14 is assessed by assignments in the mandatory units and by the level 6 dissertation. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Written assignments of various kinds in the mandatory and optional units impart skills in research, analysis and communication. Seminars are used to develop oral communication by requiring students to engage in class discussions and to give short presentations. IT skills are developed when researching work (many e-resources) and submitting essay assignments, through training sessions at level 4 and for the dissertation, and in the mandatory level 4 numeracy unit. All units now make use of Blackboard; tutors in the Liberal Arts mandatory units will make use of its various functions (e.g. discussion board, wikis). Independent learning is required in all units. 9 is delivered by the mandatory units at levels 4, 5 and 6, by the structure of the programme which combines a subject pathway with options from other subjects, and from the level 6 dissertation which will draw upon what has been learned in the pathway and other units. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Essays and other forms of written assignment test the students' ability to analyse, evaluate and organise information, and to present reasoned arguments based on appropriate selection of evidence; research skills are also assessed through written coursework and the final year dissertation (2–4, 8). Oral presentations provide diagnostic and formative assessment of this skill (4). Accompanying written reports after oral feedback, seminar discussion and/or peer review assess 5 and 8. 6 is formatively assessed by the TEL element of mandatory units and 10 by the use of e-resources and online submission in completing various assignments in mandatory and optional units. 9 is assessed by assignments in the mandatory units and by the level 6 dissertation. 11 is assessed in units in the subject pathways that have examinations. Independent learning is necessary in most assignments, whose assessment reflects 1, 7, 12. |
Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
Year 1 has been designed to lay the foundations which will enable the student to fulfil the programme's objectives. Mandatory units provide both knowledge and skills while optional units start students on a pathway and allow the exploration of other subject areas. It is expected that students' work may require considerable direction and guidance from staff at this stage. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
Year 2 is intended to complete the foundations of skills and knowledge though the two mandatory units, while the optional units expand knowledge and understanding in the subject pathway. Students will be expected to grasp and apply the underlying concepts, principles and methods appropriate to their area of study, to show a greater degree of independence in the interpretation of evidence and construction of arguments, and to present their work effectively. |
Level H/6 - Honours |
At this level students are expected to make use of the knowledge and skills acquired in the first two years in researching and discussing topics in much greater depth. They will work at a higher level of methodological and conceptual complexity. They will be expected to work more independently in gathering and assimilating information, synthesising it in an appropriate way and engaging in the sophisticated analysis of relevant evidence. Particularly in the context of the Year Abroad there is a strong emphasis on self-directed study and taking responsibility for one’s learning. In the same context there is an emphasis on developing awareness of research contexts and overarching themes in preparation for the final, M-level year. |
Level M/7 - Masters |
Much of the study undertaken at Masters level will have been at, or informed by, work at the forefront of the subject pathway. Students will have shown originality in the application of knowledge, and they will understand how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research. They will have advanced knowledge of research techniques. The cross-disciplinarity of their work will enhance creativity and intellectual self-awareness. They will be able to deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, and they will show originality in tackling and solving problems. They will develop qualities of judgement, personal responsibility and initiative. |
The intended learning outcome mapping document shows which mandatory units contribute towards each programme intended learning outcome.
For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the undergraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
Workload Statement
In common with the rest of the University, units in the Faculty of Arts
adhere to the credit framework which sets out that 20 credits normally
equates to some 200 hours of student input. Some of this time will be spent
in class, with the remainder divided between preparation for classes and
preparation for, and completion of, the assessment tasks. Some of this
activity may occur within the University’s online learning environment,
Blackboard, which you may use to prepare wikis, to interact with other
students, to download tutorials or to receive feedback.
Assessment Statement
Please select the following link for a statement about assessment. This is University of Bristol access only.
https://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/current/under/assessment.html
The option of doing an integrated Master of Liberal Arts (MLibArts), a four-year programme with third year abroad (whose first two years are identical to the BA) instead of the three-year BA, is nearly unique (Exeter is similar in this respect, but the first two years are differently constructed). Students can leave their options open in this regard until the end of the second year (though if they are minded to go abroad they will need to have made an application in November of the second year).
Robert.Fowler@bristol.ac.uk
This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type II: Advanced Study, with a formal period of study abroad, in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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History of the Present | AFAC10011 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Critical Writing in the Humanities | AFAC10001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Language requirement | |||||
20 credit points in an ancient or modern language at appropriate level. Students beginning a language pathway in Year 1, or entering Year 2 from an overseas institution automatically meet this requirement. | |||||
Students then take a minimum of 40 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 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 defined list | |||||
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Epic | CLAS12361 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Classics and Ancient History Options - choose 20 CP from: | |||||
Ancient Historical Writers | CLAS10039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Historical Survey: Ancient Greece | CLAS10035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Historical Survey: Ancient Rome | CLAS10036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature | CLAS10038 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Sculpture | CLAS10037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Greeks and the Supernatural | CLAS10046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Thought | CLAS10040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Greek Language Level A1 | CLAS12311 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level A2 | CLAS12312 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Greek Language Level B1 | CLAS12315 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level B2 | CLAS12316 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level A1 | CLAS12303 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level A2 | CLAS12304 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level B1 | CLAS12307 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level B2 | CLAS12308 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ENGLISH PATHWAY - students take: | |||||
One of: | |||||
Literature 1550-1740 | ENGL10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature 1150-1550 | ENGL10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
You can choose to take both of the Literature units above, or take only one and choose 20 CP from this list: | |||||
Critical Issues | ENGL10017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
English Options - choose from above or from: | |||||
Readings in Gender and Sexuality | ENGL10053 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Texts in a Global Context | ENGL10052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Transformations | ENGL10046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
FILM PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Introduction to Film and Television Studies | FATV10005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
FILM OPTIONS - choose from defined list. | |||||
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - must take at least two from the following: | |||||
The Early Modern World | HIST10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Modern World | HIST10048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Modern Art | HART10217 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Historical Studies Options - choose from the list above or from: | |||||
Approaching the Object | HART10007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Approaching the Past | HIST13015 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
The Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES OPTIONS - choose from defined list | |||||
LANGUAGE: CZECH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Czech Language 1 | RUSS10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: CZECH OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: FRENCH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
French Language | FREN10029 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: FRENCH OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: GERMAN PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
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 optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
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 optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
Russian Language (for qualified entrants) | RUSS10036 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Russian Language (ab initio) | RUSS10001 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN OPTIONS - choose optional units 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 optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Portuguese Language | HISP10302 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Portuguese Language - Post A Level | HISP10307 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE OPTIONS - students may additionally choose the following unit (and/or optional units from a defined list.) | |||||
Key Moments in Lusophone History and Culture | HISP10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
Technical Studies I: Harmony and Harmonic Analysis | MUSI10047 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
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: | |||||
Practical studies: Performance | MUSI10058 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Composition | MUSI10059 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
MUSIC OPTIONS - choose optional units 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: | |||||
Logic and Critical Thinking | PHIL10032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PHILOSOPHY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS10030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Living Religions East | THRS10065 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Living Religions West | THRS10064 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - choose optional units from a defined list (which may include Sanskrit or Hebrew units which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme.) | |||||
THEATRE PATHWAY - students must take: | |||||
Introduction to Performance Practices | THTR10009 | 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 from 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. | |||||
Certificate of Higher Education | 120 |
This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type II: Advanced Study, with a formal period of study abroad, in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Students take both of the following: | |||||
Ideas and Society | AFAC20002 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Experiencing the Aesthetic | AFAC20003 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Numeracy requirement - must take: | |||||
Arts in the Age of Data | AFAC20007 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Students take 40 to 60 credit points in their chosen pathway (see below) including 40 at level 5: | |||||
ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Social Theories | ARCH20057 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ANTHROPOLOGY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
ARCHAEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Social Theories | ARCH20057 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ARCHAEOLOGY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list (which includes Latin and Ancient Greek units which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme.) | |||||
ENGLISH PATHWAY - must take one of the Literature units below, plus one Special Subject unit selected from a defined list: | |||||
Literature 1740-1900 | ENGL20063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature 1900-present | ENGL20064 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ENGLISH OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
FILM PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
Film History to 1960 | FATV20011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film and Television History, 1960 to the present | FATV20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
FILM OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
MEDIEVAL STUDIES OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - CZECH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Czech Language 2 | RUSS20029 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - CZECH PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - FRENCH PATHWAY - must take | |||||
French Language 2 | FREN20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - FRENCH PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - GERMAN PATHWAY - must take | |||||
German Language 2 (Post A-Level) | GERM20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
German Language post ab initio | GERM20032 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - GERMAN PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Italian Language 2 | ITAL20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Russian Language 2 | RUSS20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - SPANISH PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Spanish Language | HISP20101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - SPANISH PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML | HISP20302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
MUSIC PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Religion: Contexts and Perspectives | THRS20214 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Religion: Practices and Ideas | THRS20215 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
Performance Histories | THTR20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Politics of Performance | THTR20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
THEATRE OPTIONS - choose optional 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 the Arts) or may take Open Units (not totalling more than 20 credits) outside the Faculty of Arts. | |||||
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type II: Advanced Study, with a formal period of study abroad, in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Year Abroad | AFAC30001 | 120 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
120 |
This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type II: Advanced Study, with a formal period of study abroad, in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Dissertation | AFACM0006 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Students take at least 40 cps in the subject pathway at level 7. | |||||
As the Liberal Arts dissertation is expected to encompass aspects of the pathway subject, students' pathway units should not include dissertations from other departments. If there are no M-level units available for your pathway, you will be registered for a M-level POU instead, details below, which will be attached to a relevant third year option for your pathway. | |||||
ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Visions: Experiments in Creative Anthropology | ARCHM0078 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Anthropological Theory and Practice | ARCHM0081 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Research Methods in Anthropology | ARCHM0080 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment | ARCHM0084 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Stimulating Anthropology: Drugs and Society | ARCHM0077 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives | ARCHM0076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. There are no M-Level units within the Department of Classics and Ancient History so pathway students will need to choose 40 credits of third year options which will be attached to POUs. | |||||
The Passions | CLAS30035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Peoples and Places: Knowing the Ancient World | CLAS30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Women and the Family in Ancient Greek Tragedy | CLAS30027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide | CLAS30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality | CLAS32335 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Minoans | CLAS37018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Pompeii | CLAS32345 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
The Persian Empire | CLAS30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Histories of Violence | CLAS30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
ENGLISH PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Introduction to Literary Research | ENGLM3029 | 40 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernism, Experimentation and Form | ENGLM0039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts | ENGLM0037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Romantic Poetry and Poetics | ENGLM3009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives | ENGLM0066 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary Literature | ENGLM0038 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Hamlet: Text and Interpretation | ENGLM3012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Intertextual Shakespeare | ENGLM3013 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature 1940-1970: Writing After War, After Modernism | ENGLM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature and Medicine | ENGLM3022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Animal Planet: Humans and other animals in modernity | ENGLM0056 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing in the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Uranium | ENGLM0067 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Gothic | ENGLM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing for Art | ENGLM3018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Victorian Literature and Place | ENGLM0034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
FILM PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Documentary Film and Television | FATVM0003 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film and Television Production Technologies and Techniques | FATVM0022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Screen Forms and Analysis | FATVM0016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Screening Nations | FATVM0017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Making Short Fiction Film | FATVM0025 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Screen Research | FATVM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Art of Cinematography | FATVM0004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Art of Editing | FATVM0005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY- Mandatory units. 20 credits of; | |||||
Approaches to History | HISTM2009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Research Skills for Medievalists | AFACM1001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Researching and Writing History | HISTM0055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Histories, Theories and Critical Interpretations of Art: 1 | HARTM0025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Histories, Theories and Critical Interpretations of Art: 2 | HARTM0026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
HISTORICAL STUDIES- Options; | |||||
Environment and History | HISTM0078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Rewriting Modern Britain | HISTM0079 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Themes in the History of Colonialism | HISTM0017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Explorations in Early Modern History | HISTM0081 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Race in America | HISTM0084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Ideology, Poverty and Famines | HISTM2017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Making History Public | HISTM2016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Oceans & Globalisation: 1700-1945 | HISTM0100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Fashion | HARTM0042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HARTM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Text and Image (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Environmental Awareness from the Eighteenth Century to Now | HARTM0041 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
An Unruly History of England, c. 1381-1688 | HISTM0102 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Nature of Britain: Environmental Histories of an Atlantic Island | HISTM0103 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Historians and the Boundaries of the Body | HISTM0104 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Performance Studies | MUSIM0022 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR | |
Can only be taken if students have studied Performance throughout their degree | |||||
Composition Portfolio | MUSIM0011 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR | |
Cannot be taken if students have studied Performance throughout their degree | |||||
Contemporary Compositional Ideas and Techniques | MUSIM0006 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Accompaniment in Practice | MUSIM0041 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Readings In Musicology | MUSIM0036 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Research Skills for Musicians | MUSIM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Advanced Orchestration | MUSIM0043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Professional Composing | MUSIM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Source Study, Paleography and Editorial Practices | MUSIM0014 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Critical Analysis of Media Music | MUSIM0020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Advanced Technical Studies | MUSIM0042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
FRENCH PATHWAY; | |||||
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Studied with; | |||||
French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following French options; | |||||
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Around Cubism | FREN30096 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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 | |
GERMAN pathway; | |||||
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Studied with; | |||||
German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following German options; | |||||
German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times | GERM30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
ITALIAN pathway; | |||||
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Studied with; | |||||
Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Italian options; | |||||
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PORTUGUESE pathway; | |||||
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Studied with; | |||||
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Portuguese options; | |||||
Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries | HISP30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
RUSSIAN pathway; | |||||
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Studied with; | |||||
Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Russian options; | |||||
Life and Death with Stalin | RUSS30079 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dostoevsky (TB2) | RUSS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
SPANISH pathway; | |||||
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Studied with; | |||||
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Spanish options; | |||||
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
History of Latin America's Indigenous People | HISP30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Philosophy of Biology | PHILM0006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Epistemology and Metaphysics | PHILM0021 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
History of Science | PHILM0007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosophy of Science | PHILM0033 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Philosophy of Psychology | PHILM0020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Value Theory | PHILM0026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Comparative Religions: Themes and Methods | THRSM0119 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Atheism | THRSM0107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Buddhism in Practice | THRSM0118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRSM0109 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
THEATRE OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Independent Research Project | THTRM0011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The following units will be studied attached to a POU; | |||||
Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students may take the following unit in place of 20cps in the subject pathway: | |||||
The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMSM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students may then choose up to 40 credits from further options at level 7 as listed above, or may use the following units to access units from the undergraduate curriculum (subject to permission from the relevant department). | |||||
Students can additionally choose 20 credits from optional MODL units at level 7; | |||||
Institutions of Culture | MODLM0022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Rise of the Novel in 19th-Century Europe | MODLM2035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image | MODLM2048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Theorizing Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions | MODLM0025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Cultural Encounters | MODLM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction | MODLM2034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Translation and International Film Distribution | MODLM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Liberal Arts with Study Abroad (MLibArts) | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
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.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
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).
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.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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