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Programme structure: Czech and French (BA) - what's running in 2016/17

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
French Language 3 FREN30001 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but not more than two units from:
Identity and Conflict: The Poetics and Politics of French Renaissance Writing FREN30012 20 Optional TB-2
War Stories: Representation and Memory of Conflict in France since World War One FREN30041 20 Optional TB-1
Literature and Political Activism FREN30071 20 Optional TB-2
The Crusades and their Representation in French Literature of the Middle Ages FREN30098 20 Optional TB-2
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions FREN30030 20 Optional TB-2
From Old to Middle French FREN30031 20 Optional TB-1
Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture FREN30040 20 Optional TB-1
The French Renaissance FREN30037 20 Optional TB-1
Fiction of the July Revolution: Romanticism and Realism FREN30027 20 Optional TB-1
African narratives of migration FREN30039 20 Optional TB-1
French Dialectology: Geographical Variation and Change in the Espace Francophone FREN30043 20 Optional TB-2
Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France FREN30044 20 Optional TB-2
What is an author? Fictions and theories FREN30045 20 Optional TB-2
France, Islam and Muslims: A Multi-Layered History FREN30083 20 Optional TB-1
Crossing Borders: French and Maghrebi Cinemas FREN30105 20 Optional TB-1
Plus
Czech Language 3 RUSS30029 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two from the following list:
Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos? RUSS30065 20 Optional TB-2
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Independent Study 1 MODL30005 20 Optional TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context MODL30010 20 Optional TB-1
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language MODL30013 20 Optional TB-1
Communism in Europe MODL30001 20 Optional TB-1
Students may take the following unit:
Catalan Language (follow-on) MODL30011 20 Optional TB-4
Czech and French (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.

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