Programme structure: Liberal Arts (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students take both of the following:
Ideas and Society	AFAC20002	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Experiencing the Aesthetic	AFAC20003	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Numeracy requirement - must take:
Arts in the Age of Data	AFAC20007	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Students take at least 40 credit points in their chosen pathway (see below) including 40 at level 5:
Anthropology Pathway- Mandatory Units
Social Theories	ARCH20057	20	Optional		TB-2
Choose 20 credits of Anthropology Options
Anthropological Methods	ARCH20048	20	Optional		TB-1
Early Human Origins	ARCH20005	20	Optional		TB-1
The Anthropology of Gender and Childhood	ARCH20070	20	Optional		TB-1
Evolution and Human Behaviour	ARCH20058	20	Optional		TB-2
Britain AD	ARCH20068	20	Optional		TB-2
Lives on the move: Migration and Mobility from a Global Perspective	ARCH20066	20	Optional		TB-1
Anthropology and Contemporary Capitalism	ARCH20065	20	Optional		TB-2
Engaging with collections	ARCH20071	20	Optional		TB-2
How Societies Evolve	ARCH20064	20	Optional		TB-1
Playing Cultures: sports, games and bodily practices	ARCH20072	20	Optional		TB-2
Choose two of the optional units:
Exploring the Roman Cityscape	CLAS20070	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaches to Roman History	CLAS20040	20	Optional		TB-1
Myth	CLAS20065	20	Optional		TB-1
Legacy	CLAS20067	20	Optional		TB-2
Historical Topic: Roman Imperial Culture	CLAS20062	20	Optional		TB-2
Comedy	CLAS22370	20	Optional		TB-1
Drama	CLAS20066	20	Optional		TB-2
Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire	CLAS27003	20	Optional		TB-2
- Please note that students taking languages must have the necessary pre-requisites. A1 is a prerequisite for A2 in the
Greek Language Level A1	CLAS20006	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level A2	CLAS20007	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level A1	CLAS20008	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level A2	CLAS20009	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level B1	CLAS22307	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level B1	CLAS22315	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level C1	CLAS22405	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level C1	CLAS22407	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level B2	CLAS22308	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level B2	CLAS22316	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level C2	CLAS22406	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level C2	CLAS22408	20	Optional		TB-2
English Pathway- Mandatory Units. One of the following:
Literature 1740-1900	ENGL20063	20	Optional		TB-1
or;
Literature 1900-present	ENGL20064	20	Optional		TB-2
And one of the 20 credit 'Special Subject' units below;
Shakespeare	ENGL20068	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the City: London 1550-1740	ENGL20069	20	Optional		TB-1
African American Literature	ENGL20111	20	Optional		TB-1
American Literature: 1945 to Present	ENGL29007	20	Optional		TB-1
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World	ENGL20113	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present	ENGL20129	20	Optional		TB-1
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception	ENGL29032	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Poetry of the 1960s	ENGL20032	20	Optional		TB-1
Revenge Tragedy	ENGL29008	20	Optional		TB-1
Rudyard Kipling	ENGL29004	20	Optional		TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English	ENGL20028	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
American Short Stories	ENGL20138	20	Optional	E	TB-2
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
Black British Literature	ENGL20041	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry	ENGL20051	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Dangerous Books	ENGL20023	20	Optional		TB-2
Darkest London	ENGL29026	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage	ENGL20206	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Large, Loose, Baggy Monsters: Victorian Fiction and Novel Form	ENGL20128	20	Optional		TB-2
The Radical Gothic	ENGL20136	20	Optional	E	TB-2
The Art of Grief	ENGL20116	20	Optional		TB-2
The Author as Character	ENGL20048	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Working Classes	ENGL20030	20	Optional		TB-2
Film Pathway- Mandatory Units;
Film and Television History to 1960	FATV20027	20	Optional		TB-1
And 20 credits points from the options list below:
The Film Director's Vision	FATV20006	20	Optional		TB-1
Film Genre	FATV20002	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Film and TV Comedy	FATV20005	20	Optional		TB-1
EcoCinema	FATV20028	20	Optional		TB-2
Hollywood Cinema History	FATV20007	20	Optional		TB-2
Documentary Histories and Practices	FATV20009	20	Optional		TB-2
British Cinema and Television	FATV20001	20	Optional		TB-2
Screen Performance	FATV20003	20	Optional		TB-1
Film Adaptation Across Borders	FATV20025	20	Optional		TB-2
Anime	FATV20031	20	Optional		TB-1
History Pathway students should choose 40 credits from the complete list of History options:
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20	Optional	A	TB-1
The Americas in Global Context	HIST20142	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Africa in Global Perspective	HIST20141	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Asia in Global Perspective	HIST20143	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Outlaws	HIST20120	20	Optional	C	TB-1
Fear and Loathing	HIST20117	20	Optional	C	TB-1
Crusading Cultures	HIST20133	20	Optional		TB-1
The Politics of the Past	HIST20144	20	Optional	D	TB-2
The Public Role of the Historian	HIST20145	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Students can only take 20 credits from the below units;
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers	HIST20036	20	Optional		TB-2
Building Modern Ireland, c. 1850-Present	HIST20139	20	Optional		TB-2
Health and Medicine in African History: Actors, Institutions, Ideas	HIST20147	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Modern Girls and New Women	HIST20146	20	Optional		TB-2
Under the Covers: Sex and Modern British Print Culture	HIST20138	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field)	HIST26024	20	Optional		TB-2
Hong Kong and the World	HIST20135	20	Optional		TB-2
The F Word: Understanding Italian Fascism Then and Now	HIST20140	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Race, Migration and Diaspora in 19th and 20th Century Britain	HIST20136	20	Optional		TB-2
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States	HIST20129	20	Optional		TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective	HIST20128	20	Optional		TB-2
The Black Death in England	HIST20125	20	Optional		TB-2
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages	HIST20132	20	Optional		TB-2
Disease, Deviance and Disability in Modern Medicine	HIST20134	20	Optional	C	TB-2
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008)	HIST20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Decolonisation	HIST20116	20	Optional	C	TB-2
Art in Britain (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HART20024	20	Optional		TB-1
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HART20026	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Modern European Art	HART20036	20	Optional		TB-1
Art and Empire	HART20038	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Curating the Object	HART20029	20	Optional	C	TB-2
Race and Place	HART20031	20	Optional	D	TB-2
How to Live Well: The Art of the Netherlands 1500-1700	HART20030	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Early Italian Art	HART20009	20	Optional		TB-2
Cold War Culture: Art and Politics since 1945 (Level I Special Field)	HART26001	20	Optional		TB-2
Queering the Early Modern	HART20041	20	Optional	D	TB-2
French Pathway- Mandatory units:
French Language 2	FREN20001	20	Optional		TB-4
And 20 credits from the below list of French options:
French Drama	FREN20026	20	Optional		TB-1
French Thought	FREN20068	20	Optional		TB-2
Francophone African Literature	FREN20069	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to French Cinema	FREN20056	20	Optional		TB-1
France in Ferment 1870-1940	FREN20063	20	Optional		TB-2
French Fiction: from Realism to the 21st Century	FREN20048	20	Optional		TB-2
France during the Second World War: culture, politics and society	FREN20070	20	Optional		TB-2
Women and Gender in Medieval French Literature (1150-1450)	FREN20071	20	Optional		TB-1
Algeria and France: Memory and Migration in Text and Image	FREN20059	20	Optional		TB-1
German Pathway- Mandatory Units
If GERM10009 was taken in Year 1 select
German Language 2 (Post A-Level)	GERM20001	20	Optional		TB-4
Or; if GERM19003 was taken in year 1 select
German Language post ab initio	GERM20032	20	Optional		TB-4
Choose 20 credits from the following German options:
Transnational Nation: Germany 1840 - 1990	GERM20047	20	Optional		TB-2
Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840	GERM20044	20	Optional		TB-1
From Judgement to Trial: Selected Works by Franz Kafka	GERM20049	20	Optional		TB-2
Spanish Pathway- Mandatory UniT
Spanish Language	HISP20101	20	Optional		TB-4
Choose 20 credits from Spanish options:
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry	HISP20115	20	Optional		TB-2
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975	HISP20076	20	Optional		TB-1
Barcelona: Culture and Representations	HISP20117	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Latin American Cinema	HISP20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain	HISP21309	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History	HISP20119	20	Optional		TB-1
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World	HISP20118	20	Optional		TB-2
Structures and Varieties of Spanish	HISP20123	20	Optional		TB-2
Women's Writing and Filmmaking in Latin America	HISP20108	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Spanish Peninsular literature since 1850	HISP20121	20	Optional		TB-2
Portuguese Pathway- Mandatory Units:
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML	HISP20302	20	Optional		TB-4
Choose 20 credits from Portuguese Options;
Introduction to Latin American Cinema	HISP20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry	HISP20115	20	Optional		TB-2
Russian Pathway- Mandatory Units:
Russian Language 2	RUSS20008	20	Optional		TB-4
Choose 20 credits from Russian options:
-RUSS20043 can only be selected i students took RUSS10015 in Year One:
Revolutionary Russia, 1881-1917	RUSS20066	20	Optional		TB-1
Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Culture and Politics 1917 - 1941	RUSS20060	20	Optional		TB-2
Russian Orthodox Culture	RUSS20044	20	Optional		TB-1
Intermediate Czech Language	RUSS20043	20	Optional		TB-4
Music Pathway students should pick 20 credits from the below options;
Performance	MUSI20058	20	Optional		TB-4
Further Technical Studies	MUSI20099	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaches to Music History I	MUSI20142	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaches to Music History II	MUSI20143	20	Optional		TB-2
Compositional Strategy	MUSI20047	20	Optional		TB-2
Composing Live Electronics	MUSI20126	20	Optional		TB-2
Music recording and production	MUSI20124	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing for Orchestra	MUSI20141	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI20071	20	Optional		TB-1
Music and Sex	MUSI20111	20	Optional		TB-1
The Romantic Imagination	MUSI20121	20	Optional	B,C	TB-2
20th-Century Opera	MUSI20130	20	Optional	C,E	TB-2
Introduction to Composing for Screen Media	MUSI20131	20	Optional	B,E	TB-2
Philosophy Pathway students should take 40 credit form Philosophy options;
Realism and Normativity	PHIL20046	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mind	PHIL20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Aesthetics	PHIL20136	20	Optional	D,E	TB-2
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 1	PHIL20050	20	Optional		TB-1
Ethics	PHIL20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Ancient Philosophy	PHIL20040	20	Optional		TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL20049	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL20053	20	Optional		TB-2
Beyond Humanity	PHIL20063	20	Optional	C	TB-1
Religion and Theology Pathway- Mandatory units;
Religion: Contexts and Perspectives	THRS20214	20	Optional		TB-1
Or;
Religion: Practices and Ideas	THRS20215	20	Optional		TB-2
And 20 credits from Religion and Theology Options;
Evil Monks, Foxy Ladies, and Pocket Monsters: Religion and Japanese Popular Culture	THRS20225	20	Optional	B,C	TB-1
Religion and Material Culture	THRS20096	20	Optional	B	TB-1
The Philosophy of Religion	THRS20102	20	Optional	E	TB-1
Introduction to Sanskrit 1	THRS20188	20	Optional		TB-1
The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age	THRS20108	20	Optional		TB-2
The Body, Gender and Religion	THRS20192	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Introduction to Hebrew 1	THRS20224	20	Optional		TB-2
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take one of:
Performance Histories	THTR20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Politics of Performance	THTR20005	20	Optional		TB-2
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.
Students are also able to select one of the 20 credit point MODL units. NB- You do not need to be on a language pathway, but it is worth discussing any MODL options with SML before making a final unit selection
General Linguistics	MODL20016	20	Optional		TB-1
Historical Linguistics	MODL20017	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages	MODL20021	20	Optional		TB-1
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-1
Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture	MODL20026	20	Optional		TB-2
Undergraduate Diploma		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 the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.