This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning progression and completion are held in the University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional requirements.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMS30001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
| Dissertation | AFAC30002 | 40 | Mandatory | E | TB-4 |
| Students take at least 20 cps in their subject pathway at level 6: | |||||
| Anthropology Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Human Challenges | ARCH30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment | ARCH30051 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Introduction to Forensic Anthropology | ARCH30039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Visions: Experiments in Creative Anthropology | ARCH30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| A Planetary Caribbean: Land. Sea. Sky. Plantation. Plot | ARCH30053 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
| Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives | ARCH30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Anthropology of Disability and Difference | ARCH30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Introduction to Primatology | ARCH30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Classics & Ancient History Pathway- There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the below: | |||||
| Sappho: Poetry and Society in Ancient Greece | CLAS30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Histories of Violence | CLAS30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Minoans | CLAS37018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophies of Eros: Ancient and Modern | CLAS30043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Trojan War in Ancient Literature | CLAS30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Persian Empire | CLAS30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Comparative Paganism | CLAS30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| You may also choose between the following language units. Please note that students taking languages at level B | |||||
| Greek Language Level A1 | CLAS30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Latin Language Level A1 | CLAS30008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Greek Language Level B1 | CLAS30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Latin Language Level B1 | CLAS30033 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Greek Language Level C1 | CLAS32405 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Latin Language Level C1 | CLAS32407 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Greek Language Level D1 | CLAS30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Latin Language Level D1 | CLAS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Greek Language Level A2 | CLAS30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Latin Language Level A2 | CLAS30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Greek Language Level B2 | CLAS30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Latin Language Level B2 | CLAS30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Greek Language Level C2 | CLAS32406 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Latin Language Level C2 | CLAS32408 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Greek Language Level D2 | CLAS30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Latin Language Level D2 | CLAS32343 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| English Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| American Revolutions | ENGL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literatures of Decolonisation | ENGL30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction | ENGL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace | ENGL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature | ENGL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Illness Narratives | ENGL30089 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literature's Children | ENGL39015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Modernism and the Movies | ENGL30128 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Representing HIV/AIDS | ENGL30141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism | ENGL39027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing | ENGL30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Women on the Verge: Gender and Experimentation in the 20th/21st Century | ENGL30149 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics | ENGL30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Literature - Enslavement - Liberation | ENGL30142 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Caribbean Literature | ENGL30148 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Charles Dickens | ENGL39020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas | ENGL30145 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Literature and Medicine | ENGL39011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Medievalism in the Modern Age | ENGL30150 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Modernist Writers | ENGL30140 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The History of the Language of English Literature | ENGL30123 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Victorian Materialities | ENGL30079 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Writing for Art | ENGL39019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present | ENGL30124 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Film Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Contemporary World Cinemas | FATV30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FATV30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Film Criticism | FATV30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Film Festivals | FATV30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Approaching Video Games | FATV30024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Historical Studies Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 | HIST30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Memory | HIST30113 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Horrible Histories And All That | HIST30119 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Global Empires | HIST30122 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Millennial Britain | HIST30125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Capitalism | HIST30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Race | HIST30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Sexualities | HIST30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Art and Fashion | HART30051 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HART30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Art and the Natural World | HART30054 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HART30043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Approaches to the Artist (Reflective Art History Unit) | HART30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Prints | HART30046 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Religious Art (Reflective Art History Unit) | HART30008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean | HART30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Physical Culture - Visual Culture | HART30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Illustrated Press | HART30055 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-2 |
| Art and Internationalism (Level H Special Subject) | HART30042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Students can only take 20 credits of the below list; | |||||
| Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) | HIST30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dark Pasts: Modern Histories of Night in Britain and North America | HIST30132 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944 | HIST30128 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| The Mass Media in Modern Britain | HIST30133 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Constructing the Other | HIST30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Once Upon a Crime: Law and Popular Cultures in the Age of Empire | HIST30137 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Aftermath: The Wake of War, 1945-1949 | HIST30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Rage against the Machine: Technology and Anti-Technology in Modern Britain | HIST30138 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| The Age of the Human | HIST30103 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Languages - French Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Francophone Identities in the Visual Arts | FREN30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades | FREN30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Revolutions in Fiction: Romanticism and Realism under the July Monarchy | FREN30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France | FREN30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Culture, soft power and diplomatie d'influence: Exporting French culture from the 1870s to the present | FREN30133 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Languages - German Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Die Mitte: Centrist German Politics and its Language | GERM30079 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Language Variation and Change in German | GERM30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Visibility Matters: Identity, Diversity, and Power in the Cultural Marketplace | GERM30081 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times | GERM30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Languages - Italian Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Boccaccio's Decameron | ITAL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Naples: Culture, Identity and Nation | ITAL30045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Languages - Russian Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Decadence, Decay and Rebirth: Russian & Czech Literature, 1870 - 1914 | RUSS30084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Dostoevsky (TB2) | RUSS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Advanced Czech Language | RUSS30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Languages Spanish Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present) | HISP30100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Contemporary Latin American History | HISP30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Political Comedy, Social Tragedy: Protest and Conflict in Spain, 1875-1923. | HISP30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance | HISP30092 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Intermedia Encounters in Poetry | HISP30104 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Imagining Other Worlds: Argentine Culture from 1940 to the Present | HISP30102 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Languages - Portuguese Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Intermedia Encounters in Poetry | HISP30104 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| MUSIC PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Aesthetics and Criticism | MUSI30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Performance | MUSI30066 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Composing Live Electronics | MUSI30141 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Music recording and production | MUSI30132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Hip-hop Music and Culture | MUSI30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Music and Sex | MUSI30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Romantic Imagination | MUSI30130 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| 20th-Century Opera | MUSI30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Composition Project | MUSI30064 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Advanced Technical Studies | MUSI30113 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences | PHIL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2 | PHIL30116 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | C,D | TB-2 |
| Philosophy of Psychology | PHIL30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy of Mathematics | PHIL30090 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Death, dying and disease | PHIL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Evil, Deviance, and Crime | PHIL30127 | 20 | Optional | A,B | TB-1 |
| Students can take one but not both of the following units; | |||||
| The Philosophy and History of Medicine | PHIL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophy of Biology | PHIL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Religion and Theology Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Sex, Humour, and Piety: Life in the Ancient and Medieval Buddhist Monastery | THRS30185 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Medieval Mystics and Visionaries in Medieval England | THRS30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | THRS30180 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Political Islam | THRS30184 | 20 | Optional | A,B | TB-1 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS30171 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Atheism | THRS30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Theology of Martin Luther | THRS30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Body in East Asian Thought and Practices | THRS30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Children of Abraham, Pupils of Aristotle: Faith, Nature, and Interreligious Inspiration in Medieval Christian Thought | THRS30186 | 20 | Optional | B,D | TB-2 |
| Introduction to Hebrew 1 | THRS30183 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| THEATRE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units: | |||||
| Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices | THTR30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Site-Specific and Immersive Performance | THTR30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Up to 40 credits may be taken in optional units, of which at least 20 credits must be at level H/6. | |||||
| Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society | MODL30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
| Transnational Narrative in pre-modern cultures | MODL30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Studying and Making Early Printed Books | MODL30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Liberal Arts (BA) | 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).
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.
