What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Take both of the following units: | |||||
Ideas and Society | AFAC10002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Experiencing the Aesthetic | AFAC10003 | 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 then take 40 to 80 credit points in their prospective pathway (see below): | |||||
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 a 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 a defined list | |||||
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - students must take two from: | |||||
Art in the Ancient World | CLAS12365 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Late Antiquity | CLAS12381 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
History of Thought | CLAS12366 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Archaic Greece | CLAS12352 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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 | TB-1 | |
Literature 1150-1550 | ENGL10042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature 1550-1740 | ENGL10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Texts in a Global Context | ENGL10044 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Transformations | ENGL10046 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Women Writers | ENGL10047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ENGLISH OPTIONS - choose additional units from the pathway units listed above. | |||||
FILM PATHWAY - students must take 20 credits from: | |||||
Introduction to Film and Television Studies | DRAM10024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Criticism and the Arts | DRAM10029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
FILM OPTIONS - choose from a defined list. | |||||
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - students must take at least two from the following: | |||||
Introduction to Medieval History | HIST13011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Early Modern History | HIST13012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies | HIST13014 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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 | |
Late Antiquity | CLAS12381 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art in the Ancient World | CLAS12365 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Archaic Greece | CLAS12352 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
History of Thought | CLAS12366 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
HISTORICAL STUDIES OPTIONS - Choose additional options from a defined list. | |||||
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Introduction to Medieval History | HIST13011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES OPTIONS - choose from a defined list | |||||
LANGUAGE: CZECH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Czech Language 1 | RUSS10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: CZECH OPTIONS - choose from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: FRENCH PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
French Language | FREN10029 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: FRENCH OPTIONS - choose from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: GERMAN PATHWAY - must take one of the following: | |||||
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 from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN PATHWAY - must take one of the following: | |||||
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 from a defined list. | |||||
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN PATHWAY - must take one of the following: | |||||
Russian Language (for qualified entrants) | RUSS10036 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Russian Language (ab initio) | RUSS10001 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN OPTIONS - choose 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 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: | |||||
Key Moments in Lusophone History and Culture | HISP10015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
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: | |||||
Technical Studies I: Harmony and Harmonic Analysis | MUSI10047 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Composition - Studio | MUSI10056 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Composition - Acoustic | MUSI10057 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY OPTIONS - choose 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-1 | |
Introduction to Formal Logic | PHIL10014 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PHILOSOPHY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list. | |||||
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Living Religions | THRS10028 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY OPTIONS - choose from a defined list (which may include Sanskrit and Hebrew units) which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme. | |||||
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take: | |||||
Production Skills for Performance 1 | DRAM10028 | 10 | Optional | TB-1A | |
And one of: | |||||
Performance Forms and Analysis | DRAM11004 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Criticism and the Arts | DRAM10029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
It is suggested that students on the Theatre pathway also take: | |||||
Production Skills for Performance 2 | DRAM10026 | 10 | Optional | TB-1B | |
THEATRE OPTIONS - choose units from a 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.