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Programme structure: English (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Literature 1740-1900 ENGL20063 20 Mandatory TB-1
Literature 1900-present ENGL20064 20 Mandatory TB-2
For students who take optional unit HUMS20002, this replaces all of the Year 2 units in a single teaching block, including units that are normally mandatory in this programme.
One of the following:
Old English Language and Literature ENGL20065 20 Optional TB-2
Arthurian Literature ENGL20060 20 Optional TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians ENGL20061 20 Optional TB-2
One of the following:
Shakespeare ENGL20068 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the City: London 1550-1740 ENGL20069 20 Optional TB-1
Writing the Margins ENGL20109 20 Optional TB-1
Select TWO from the following (but not more than one in each teaching block):
Darkest London ENGL29026 20 Optional TB-2
American Literature: 1945 to Present ENGL29007 20 Optional TB-1
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception ENGL29032 20 Optional TB-2
Dangerous Books ENGL20023 20 Optional TB-1
Travellers' Tales ENGL20024 20 Optional TB-2
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News ENGL20020 20 Optional TB-2
Black British Literature ENGL20041 20 Optional TB-2
Presenting the Future ENGL20044 20 Optional TB-2
War Stories: Women Writers and Conflict from WWI to 9/11 ENGL20043 20 Optional TB-1
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage ENGL20206 20 Optional TB-2
Poetry of the 1960s ENGL20032 20 Optional TB-2
Revenge Tragedy ENGL29008 20 Optional TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English ENGL20028 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Writing the Working Classes ENGL20030 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry ENGL20051 20 Optional TB-1
The Author as Character ENGL20048 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing ENGL20049 20 Optional TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America ENGL20019 20 Optional TB-1
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin ENGL20054 20 Optional TB-1
Utopian Literature ENGL20058 20 Optional TB-1
African American Literature ENGL20111 20 Optional TB-1
Concise Crimes: The Short Story in Detective Fiction ENGL20112 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World ENGL20113 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to the Medical Humanities HUMS20004 20 Optional TB-2
Study Abroad/ Erasmus HUMS20002 60 Optional TB-1,TB-2
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).

Additional progress information

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 section 29 of the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

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