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Programme code | 1ARTF004U |
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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 | 3 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 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.
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 a mandatory unit The Public Role of the Humanities at Level 6 9 is acquired through mandatory and optional units in the subject pathway 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, 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, a substantial piece of research 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. |
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 third 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 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 (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 levels 4, 5, 6. 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. There is an emphasis on self-directed study and the development of research skills, especially through the compulsory dissertation. |
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
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: | |||||
Archaeological Practice | ARCH10016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Big Ideas in Anthropology | ARCH10012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Discovering the Past | ARCH10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Kin, Friends, Lovers and Others | ARCH10019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Material Culture (C) | ARCH10013 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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 | |
FILM PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Filmmaking Fundamentals | FATV10001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Film and Television Studies | FATV10005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film Options: | |||||
Close-Up on Film | FATV10002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Close-Up on Television | FATV10004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Filmmaking through Hitchcock | FATV10006 | 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 | |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY - Take two of: | |||||
Literature 1150-1550 | ENGL10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature 1550-1740 | ENGL10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Early Modern World | HIST10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Medieval Studies Options - choose from above or from: | |||||
Historical Studies 1: Western Art Music (up to 1750) | MUSI10045 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Medieval and Renaissance Italy | ITAL10034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
To take ITAL10034 you must have an A Level or equivalent in Italian | |||||
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 |
Landscape (Level C Special Topic) | HART10208 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Artist (Level C Special Topic) | HART10209 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The City (Level C Special Topic) | HART10210 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The American Century | HIST10044 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Slavery | HIST10046 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Urban Worlds: From Ancient Baghdad to Las Vegas | HIST10049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
War and Society | HIST10045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGE: CZECH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Czech Language 1 | RUSS10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And one of: | |||||
Czech Language and Society | RUSS10026 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Introduction to Czech History and Culture | RUSS10038 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: FRENCH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
French Language | FREN10029 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And one of: | |||||
Shaping France | FREN10008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Representations of Francophone Cultures | FREN10013 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGE: GERMAN PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
One of: | |||||
German Language 1 (ab initio) | GERM19003 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
German Language 1 (Post A-level) | GERM10009 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
If you take the Post A-level language unit, also choose 20 CP from: | |||||
German Literature and Film: Genres, Texts, Contexts | GERM10035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Language and Power: Introductions to German History | GERM10039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
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 | |
If you take the Post A-level language unit, also choose 20 CP from: | |||||
Medieval and Renaissance Italy | ITAL10034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modern Italy | ITAL10033 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
One of: | |||||
Portuguese Language | HISP10302 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Portuguese Language - Post A Level | HISP10307 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
If you take the Post A-level language unit, you must also take: | |||||
Key Moments in Lusophone History and Culture | HISP10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
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 | |
If you take the 'for qualified entrants' language unit, you must also take: | |||||
Understanding Russia: Critical Approaches | RUSS10039 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: SPANISH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
One of: | |||||
Spanish Language (Post A level) | HISP10001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Spanish Language (Ab-initio) | HISP10116 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
If you take the Post A-level language unit, you must also take: | |||||
The Making of the Hispanic World, from 1492 to the present day | HISP10014 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
One of: | |||||
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 | |
And one of: | |||||
Technical Studies I: Harmony and Harmonic Analysis | MUSI10047 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Composition | MUSI10059 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
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 from above or from: | |||||
Readings in Value Theory | PHIL10033 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Knowledge and Reality | PHIL10034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS10030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
And one of: | |||||
Living Religions East | THRS10065 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Living Religions West | THRS10064 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Religion & Theology Options - choose from above or from: | |||||
Issues in the Study of Religion | THRS10031 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Topics in Religion and Theology | THRS10063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Sanskrit I: Grammar | THRS10017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Sanskrit II: Texts | THRS10018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Note that Sanskrit fulfils the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme | |||||
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Introduction to Performance Practices | THTR10009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
And one of: | |||||
Producing the Performance | THTR10007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Staging the Text | THTR10006 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Theatre Options - choose from above or from: | |||||
Introduction to Performance Studies | THTR10008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Performance Contexts | THTR10003 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
If students have credit points available once they have selected their pathway units, then they may use these remaining credits to take optional units from any of the lists above (within the Faculty of Arts) or may take Open Units (not totalling more than 20 credits) outside the Faculty of Arts. | |||||
Undergraduate Certificate | 120 |
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 at least 40 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 any Archaeology level 5 units. | |||||
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - there are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. | |||||
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
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. | |||||
HISTORICAL STUDIES OPTIONS - choose optional units from a define 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 OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - FRENCH PATHWAY - must take | |||||
French Language 2 | FREN20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - FRENCH OPTIONS - choose options 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 OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Italian Language 2 | ITAL20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Russian Language 2 | RUSS20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - SPANISH PATHWAY - students must take | |||||
Spanish Language | HISP20101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - SPANISH OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - must take | |||||
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML | HISP20302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE OPTIONS - choose options from a defined list. | |||||
MUSIC PATHWAY - there are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. | |||||
MUSIC OPTIONS - choose from a defined list. | |||||
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - there are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. | |||||
PHILOSOPHY OPTIONS - choose options 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 options 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 Arts) or may take Open Units (not totalling more than 20 credits) outside the Faculty of Arts. | |||||
Undergraduate Diploma | 120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Dissertation | AFAC30002 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMS30001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Students take at least 20 cps in their subject pathway at level 6: | |||||
ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Human Challenges | ARCH30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment | ARCH30051 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology | ARCH30039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Visions: Experiments in Creative Anthropology | ARCH30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Human Challenges | ARCH30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives | ARCH30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Anthropology of Disability and Difference | ARCH30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Primatology | ARCH30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
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 | |
Philosophies of Eros: Ancient and Modern | CLAS30043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide | CLAS30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality | CLAS32335 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Applied Classics | CLAS30039 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
The Minoans | CLAS37018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Pompeii | CLAS32345 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Persian Empire | CLAS30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
You may also choose between the following language units. Please note that students taking languages at level B and above must have the necessary pre-requisites. | |||||
Greek Language Level C1 | CLAS32405 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level C1 | CLAS32407 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level D1 | CLAS30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level D1 | CLAS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level C2 | CLAS32406 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level C2 | CLAS32408 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level D2 | CLAS32343 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ENGLISH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
American Revolutions | ENGL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies | ENGL30111 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction | ENGL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace | ENGL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature | ENGL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Illness Narratives | ENGL30089 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
James Joyce | ENGL30045 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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 | |
Representing HIV/AIDS | ENGL30141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics | ENGL30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literatures of Enslavement | ENGL30133 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The History of the Language of English Literature | ENGL30123 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Literature and Medicine | ENGL39011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Rewriting the Bible | ENGL30129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing | ENGL30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Modernist Writers | ENGL30140 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography | ENGL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing for Art | ENGL39019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
FILM PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Contemporary World Cinemas | FATV30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FATV30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 | HIST30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Memory | HIST30113 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Horrible Histories And All That | HIST30119 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Global Empires | HIST30122 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Millennial Britain | HIST30125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Capitalism | HIST30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Race | HIST30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Sexualities | HIST30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Fashion | HART30051 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Lecture Response Unit) | HART30025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HART30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HART30043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
German Expressionism | HART30035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean | HART30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Internationalism (Level H Special Subject) | HART30042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Vision | HART30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Prints | HART30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Approaches to the Artist (Reflective Art History Unit) | HART30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Audio-Visual Culture | HART30053 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students can only take 20 credits of the below list; | |||||
Race and Health in America | HIST30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918 | HIST30097 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America | HIST30126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944 | HIST30128 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present) | HIST30095 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) | HIST30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Histories of the Polar Regions | HIST30102 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
LANGUAGES - FRENCH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Around Cubism | FREN30096 | 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 | |
Francophone Women Directors: Documentary Filmmaking | FREN30111 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Censor's Scissors, 1750-1830 | FREN30112 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades | FREN30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Leadership in France | FREN30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Theatre and Revolution | FREN30124 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Alchemy of Influence: Imitation, Translation, and Creativity | FREN30131 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGES - GERMAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Language Variation and Change in German | GERM30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
German Economic Policy Narratives | GERM30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
After The Wall: Remembering the GDR TB-2 | GERM30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times | GERM30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Boccaccio's Decameron | ITAL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) | ITAL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Writing Revolution: Russian Literature, 1910-1940 | RUSS30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Life and Death with Stalin | RUSS30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Dostoevsky | RUSS30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
LANGUAGES - SPANISH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance | HISP30092 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
History of Latin America's Indigenous People | HISP30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture | HISP30084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America | HISP30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Political Comedy, Social Tragedy: Protest and Conflict in Spain, 1875-1923. | HISP30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Sports and Societies in South America: 1860-1930 | HISP30097 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
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 | |
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America | HISP30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Aesthetics and Criticism | MUSI30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Music, Technology and Cultural Change, 1900 - present day | MUSI30124 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Hip-hop Music and Culture | MUSI30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Music in National Cinemas | MUSI30143 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences | PHIL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2 | PHIL30116 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Virtue and Well-Being | PHIL30126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Philosophy of Psychology | PHIL30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Philosophy and the Environment | PHIL30112 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Death, dying and disease | PHIL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Evil, Deviance, and Crime | PHIL30127 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students can take one but not both of the following units; | |||||
The Philosophy and History of Medicine | PHIL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosophy of Biology | PHIL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Atheism | THRS30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Buddhism in Practice | THRS30081 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Medieval Religion: Christianity and Islam | THRS30099 | 20 | Optional | A,B | TB-1 |
Vatican II and post-conciliar Roman Catholic debates in theology | THRS30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Body in East Asian Thought and Practices | THRS30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health | THRS30067 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Theology in the Twentieth Century | THRS30177 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS30171 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
THEATRE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation | THTR30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Up to 40 credits may be taken in optional units, of which at least 20 credits must be at level H/6. | |||||
Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching | MODL30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema | MODL30018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives | MODL30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Cultural heritage of Historic Towns and Cities in Europe and Beyond | MODL30027 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures | MODL30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Liberal Arts (BA) | 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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