What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
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 | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Take both of the following units: | |||||
Critical Writing in the Humanities | AFAC10001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
History of the Present | AFAC10011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Numeracy requirement (may be deferred to year 2) - one of: | |||||
Arts Students Count | AFAC10004 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Convincing stories? Numbers as evidence in the social sciences | UNIV10002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students are normally expected to take AFAC10004 Arts Students Count, except in instances where timetabling arrangements prevent them from doing so. | |||||
Language requirement (may be deferred to year 2): | |||||
20 credit points in an ancient or modern language at appropriate level. PLEASE NOTE Students beginning a language pathway in Year 1 automatically meet this requirement. | |||||
Students take 40 to 80 credit points in their prospective pathway (see below) and can take any other open unit if pathway choice allows: | |||||
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 - students must take two from: | |||||
Epic | CLAS12361 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY OPTIONS - students choose from pathway units listed above, or from a defined list of options (which included Latin and Ancient Greek units which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme.) | |||||
ENGLISH PATHWAY - students must take one from the following: | |||||
Critical Issues | ENGL10017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Critical Practice | ENGL10041 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Literature 1150-1550 | ENGL10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature 1550-1740 | ENGL10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ENGLISH OPTIONS - choose additional units from the pathway units listed above. | |||||
FILM PATHWAY - must take 20 credits from: | |||||
Introduction to Film and Television Studies | FATV10005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
FILM OPTIONS - choose from defined list. | |||||
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - students must take at least two from the following: | |||||
Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Modern Art | HART10217 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
HISTORICAL STUDIES OPTIONS - Choose additional options from a defined list. | |||||
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
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 | |
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 | |
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 one of: | |||||
Critical Reasoning | PHIL10030 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Formal Logic | PHIL10014 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PHILOSOPHY OPTIONS - choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
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. Liberal Arts students may not take THRS10029 Symposium I) | |||||
THEATRE PATHWAY - students must take: | |||||
Production and Design for Performance | THTR10002 | 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. | |||||
Undergraduate Certificate | 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).
Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.