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Programme structure: Theatre and Portuguese (BA) - what's running in 2018/19

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML HISP20302 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula HISP20088 20 Optional TB-2
Cultural Exchange in the Lusophone Atlantic, 16th-17th Centuries HISP20089 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Language Technology for Students of Portuguese HISP20093 20 Optional TB-1
On the Matter of Poetry: Concrete and Material Poetics in 20th Century Brazil and Chile HISP20094 20 Optional TB-2
Migration and Movement: Cultural Exchange in the Lusophone World, 19th to 20th Centuries HISP20099 20 Optional TB-2
Students must select either THTR20010 or THTR20005:
Performance Histories THTR20010 20 Optional TB-1
Politics of Performance THTR20005 20 Optional TB-2
Students may opt to take both THTR20010 and THTR20005, but can then only select 20 credit points from the Theatre units in the list below.
Select 20-40 credit points from the Theatre units below:
Interpreting Plays THTR20011 20 Optional TB-1
Melodrama THTR20008 20 Optional TB-1
Popular Performance: Cabaret, Music Hall, Musicals and Revue THTR20009 20 Optional TB-1
Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation THTR20012 20 Optional TB-2
Choreography for Theatre THTR20004 20 Optional TB-1
Early Modern Theatre Practice THTR20013 20 Optional TB-2
Decolonising the Stage THTR20016 20 Optional TB-2
Applied Theatre THTR20002 20 Optional TB-2
Clowning Through History THTR20014 20 Optional TB-2
Choose open units OPEN 20 Optional
Students may choose up to two units from the following list:
Political Systems of Modern Europe MODL20008 20 Optional TB-2
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-2
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe MODL20011 20 Optional TB-1
Foreign Language Skills for Semester Abroad Students MODL20018 10 Optional F TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Catalan Language (Elementary) MODL23014 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary) MODL23015 20 Optional TB-4
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).

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