Programme structure: English and Classical Studies (BA) - what's running in 2016/17

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students take a dissertation in EITHER Classical Studies or English:
Dissertation	CLAS32315	40	Optional		TB-4
Students must take one of the following:
Literature 3 (1700-1830)	ENGL30100	40	Optional		TB-1
Literature 4 (1830-1945)	ENGL30101	40	Optional		TB-2
And either the other Literature unit as a 20 credit point unit ENGL30100 or ENGL30101 OR one of the following:
Dissertation (English)	ENGL39024	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Charles Dickens	ENGL39020	20	Optional		TB-2
Postcolonial Imaginings	ENGL39025	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Twentieth-Century Women Writers	ENGL30105	20	Optional		TB-1
Aesthetic Possibilities	ENGL39029	20	Optional		TB-1
Modernism and the Body	ENGL30034	20	Optional		TB-2
James Joyce	ENGL30045	20	Optional		TB-2
Prize Culture and Prestige in Contemporary Fiction	ENGL30046	20	Optional		TB-2
American Masculinities	ENGL30048	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Literature and Science	ENGL30049	20	Optional		TB-1
Victorian Materialities	ENGL30079	20	Optional		TB-2
U.S. Postmodernist Fiction	ENGL30078	20	Optional		TB-2
Freud and Shakespeare	ENGL30028	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature and Revolution	ENGL30093	20	Optional		TB-1
Samuel Beckett	ENGL30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-1
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Beyond the Battlefield: Environment and Conflict	HUMS30002	20	Optional		TB-1
Students who are on the BA English and Classical Studies should choose the following dissertation instead of ENGL39024
Dissertation for English/Classical Studies	ENGL39021	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
If students have taken the Classical Studies dissertation, they also take one 20 credit point unit from the following list. If students have taken the English dissertation, they should take 60 credits of Classics units from the following list (students may take Greek or Latin language units at an appropriate level):
The Persian Empire	CLAS30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Receptions of Greek Tragedy	CLAS30018	20	Optional		TB-1
Thucydides and the Idea of History	CLAS30025	20	Optional		TB-1
The Trojan War in Ancient Literature	CLAS30026	20	Optional		TB-1
Women and the Family in Ancient Greek Tragedy	CLAS30027	20	Optional		TB-2
Athens and its Acropolis	CLAS30028	20	Optional		TB-2
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality	CLAS32335	20	Optional		TB-2
Myth and History in Fifth-Century Athens	CLAS37014	20	Optional		TB-2
The Minoans	CLAS37018	20	Optional		TB-2
Pompeii	CLAS32345	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
The Age of Augustus: History and Myth	CLAS37017	20	Optional		TB-2
The Passions	CLAS30035	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level A1	CLAS30006	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level C1	CLAS32405	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level D	CLAS30074	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level A1	CLAS30008	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level B1	CLAS30033	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level C1	CLAS32407	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level D1	CLAS30073	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level A2	CLAS30007	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level C2	CLAS32406	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level A2	CLAS30009	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level B2	CLAS30034	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level C2	CLAS32408	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level D2	CLAS32343	20	Optional		TB-2
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Optional		TB-1
English and Classical Studies (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.