Programme structure: Politics and French (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

Mandatory Unit French Language 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
60 credit points from:
Rational Choice	POLI21203	20	Optional		TB-1
Development Studies	POLI21213	20	Optional		TB-2
Co-operation and Integration In Europe	POLI21214	20	Optional		TB-2
Politics and Policy-Making in the UK	POLI21222	20	Optional		TB-2
Democracy and US Government	POLI21226	20	Optional		TB-2
The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa	POLI21231	20	Optional		TB-1
International Organisations and Global Governance	POLI20003	20	Optional		TB-1
Principles of Quantitative Social Science	SOCI20069	20	Optional		TB-1
Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data	POLI20001	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Political Theory	POLI22202	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary International Relations	POLI20002	20	Optional		TB-1
Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia	POLI29008	20	Optional		TB-1
NGO Development & Practice	POLI20004	20	Optional		TB-2
Understanding Genocide	POLI20005	20	Optional		TB-2
Russian Politics	POLI20006	20	Optional		TB-1
Apocalypse or Ecotopia? Green Political Thought	POLI20008	20	Optional		TB-2
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in South Asia	POLI20009	20	Optional		TB-1
Global Justice	POLI20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Plus:
French Language 2	FREN20001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
French Drama	FREN20026	20	Optional		TB-1
France 1940-44: Occupation and Resistance	FREN20037	20	Optional		TB-1
The French Language: Structures and Varieties	FREN20044	20	Optional		TB-1
France and Europe	FREN23013	20	Optional		TB-2
French Fiction: from Realism to the 21st Century	FREN20048	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to French Cinema	FREN20056	20	Optional		TB-2
The Comic and Grotesque in Pre-Modern Culture	FREN20060	20	Optional		TB-1
Modern Critical Theory	FREN20061	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose up to two units from the following list:
Political Systems of Modern Europe	MODL20008	20	Optional		TB-2
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe	MODL20011	20	Optional		TB-1
Foreign Language Skills for Semester Abroad Students	MODL20018	10	Optional	F	TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Catalan Language (Elementary)	MODL23014	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary)	MODL23015	20	Optional		TB-4
Diploma of Higher Education		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).