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

Students may substitute History of Art units from the parallel options lists. Details will be provided by the School.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Dissertation	HIST33101	40	Mandatory	E	TB-4
One Special Subject from the following:
Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37004	20	Optional		TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37011	20	Optional		TB-2
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37016	20	Optional		TB-2
Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30024	20	Optional		TB-2
Convicts and the colonies: punishment, forced labour and the British Empire (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37018	20	Optional		TB-2
Science and the Supernatural	HIST30044	20	Optional		TB-2
Documentary, Society and Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland	HIST30045	20	Optional		TB-2
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30078	20	Optional		TB-2
Lives and Letters (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30075	20	Optional		TB-2
The World of Byzantium (c.500-1100) (Level H Special Subject)	HIST30085	20	Optional		TB-2
One Reflective History unit from the following:
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38003	20	Optional		TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38006	20	Optional		TB-2
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38010	20	Optional		TB-2
History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38013	20	Optional		TB-2
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38016	20	Optional		TB-2
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38018	20	Optional		TB-2
Propaganda (Level H Reflective History)	HIST38020	20	Optional		TB-2
Capitalism (Level H Reflective History)	HIST30073	20	Optional		TB-2
Borderlands: People and Places at the Periphery (Reflective History Unit)	HIST30079	20	Optional		TB-2
Filming the Past	HIST30021	20	Optional		TB-2
History Outside The Box (Level H Reflective History)	HIST30089	20	Optional		TB-2
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) (Level H Reflective History)	HIST30084	20	Optional		TB-2
Dealing with Defeat: the English and the Norman Conquest, since 1066 (Level H Reflective History)	HIST30088	20	Optional		TB-2
Two Lecture Reponse units from the following:
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response)	HIST39009	20	Optional		TB-1
Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30025	20	Optional		TB-1
Early Modern Italy (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30026	20	Optional		TB-1
Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30027	20	Optional		TB-1
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30028	20	Optional		TB-1
History in the Middle Ages (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30031	20	Optional		TB-1
Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30032	20	Optional		TB-1
The British World (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30033	20	Optional		TB-1
Colonizing Nature (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30072	20	Optional		TB-1
Tudor Britain (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30090	20	Optional		TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30083	20	Optional		TB-1
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present)	HIST30095	20	Optional		TB-1
Comparative American Slavery	HIST30092	20	Optional		TB-1
Red Power and Beyond: Post-war American Indian Ideology and Protest	HIST30094	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may take one of the following units in place of a Lecture Response Unit in teaching block 1:
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Optional		TB-1
History (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.

Additional progress information

Please note that not every optional unit runs each year. Please contact Department for details on unit availability.