Programme structure: French (BA) - what's running in 2017/18

Mandatory Unit French Language 3 is 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
French Language 3	FREN30001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose a minimum of two but no more than four units from the following list:
The French Renaissance	FREN30037	20	Optional		TB-1
War Stories: Representation and Memory of Conflict in France since World War One	FREN30041	20	Optional		TB-2
French Dialectology: Geographical Variation and Change in the Espace Francophone	FREN30043	20	Optional		TB-1
Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France	FREN30044	20	Optional		TB-1
What is an author? Fictions and theories	FREN30045	20	Optional		TB-2
French for Business and Enterprise	FREN30047	20	Optional		TB-4
France, Islam and Muslims: A Multi-Layered History	FREN30083	20	Optional		TB-1
The Crusades and their Representation in French Literature of the Middle Ages	FREN30098	20	Optional		TB-2
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
Leadership in France	FREN30107	20	Optional		TB-2
Intellectuals and the Media in France	FREN30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Seeing, Hearing and Thinking the Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard	FREN30109	20	Optional		TB-2
Revolution, Theatre, and the Public Sphere, 1789-1799	FREN30110	20	Optional		TB-2
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language	MODL30013	20	Optional		TB-1
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society	MODL30016	20	Optional		TB-2
Reimagining Odysseus	MODL30019	20	Optional		TB-1
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures	MODL30020	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study:
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional		TB-4
Students also have the option to choose the following unit:
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
French (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.