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 |
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Students take both of the following: | |||||
Ideas and Society | AFAC20002 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Experiencing the Aesthetic | AFAC20003 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Numeracy requirement - must take: | |||||
Arts in the Age of Data | AFAC20007 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Students take at least 40 credit points in their chosen pathway (see below) including 40 at level 5: | |||||
Anthropology Pathway- Mandatory Units | |||||
Social Theories | ARCH20057 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Choose 20 credits of Anthropology Options | |||||
Anthropological Methods | ARCH20048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Early Human Origins | ARCH20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Anthropology of Gender and Childhood | ARCH20070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Evolution and Human Behaviour | ARCH20058 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Britain AD | ARCH20068 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Lives on the move: Migration and Mobility from a Global Perspective | ARCH20066 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Anthropology and Contemporary Capitalism | ARCH20065 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Engaging with collections | ARCH20071 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
How Societies Evolve | ARCH20064 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Playing Cultures: sports, games and bodily practices | ARCH20072 | 20 | Optional | C,D | TB-2 |
Choose two of the optional units: | |||||
Exploring the Roman Cityscape | CLAS20070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Approaches to Roman History | CLAS20040 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Myth | CLAS20065 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Legacy | CLAS20067 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Historical Topic: Roman Imperial Culture | CLAS20062 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Comedy | CLAS22370 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Drama | CLAS20066 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire | CLAS27003 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
- Please note that students taking languages must have the necessary pre-requisites. A1 is a prerequisite for A2 in the | |||||
Greek Language Level A1 | CLAS20006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level A2 | CLAS20007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level A1 | CLAS20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level A2 | CLAS20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level B1 | CLAS22307 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level B1 | CLAS22315 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level C1 | CLAS22405 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level C1 | CLAS22407 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level B2 | CLAS22308 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Greek Language Level B2 | CLAS22316 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Greek Language Level C2 | CLAS22406 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level C2 | CLAS22408 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
English Pathway- Mandatory Units. One of the following: | |||||
Literature 1740-1900 | ENGL20063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
or; | |||||
Literature 1900-present | ENGL20064 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
And one of the 20 credit 'Special Subject' units below; | |||||
Shakespeare | ENGL20068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Writing the City: London 1550-1740 | ENGL20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
African American Literature | ENGL20111 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
American Literature: 1945 to Present | ENGL29007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World | ENGL20113 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present | ENGL20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception | ENGL29032 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Poetry of the 1960s | ENGL20032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Revenge Tragedy | ENGL29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Rudyard Kipling | ENGL29004 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Fairy Tale in English | ENGL20028 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
American Short Stories | ENGL20138 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Old English Language and Literature | ENGL20065 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Arthurian Literature | ENGL20060 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Chaucer and Chaucerians | ENGL20061 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Black British Literature | ENGL20041 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Creative Writing: Poetry | ENGL20051 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Dangerous Books | ENGL20023 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Darkest London | ENGL29026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage | ENGL20206 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Large, Loose, Baggy Monsters: Victorian Fiction and Novel Form | ENGL20128 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Radical Gothic | ENGL20136 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
The Art of Grief | ENGL20116 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Author as Character | ENGL20048 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Writing the Working Classes | ENGL20030 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Film Pathway- Mandatory Units; | |||||
Film and Television History to 1960 | FATV20027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
And 20 credits points from the options list below: | |||||
The Film Director's Vision | FATV20006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film Genre | FATV20002 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Film and TV Comedy | FATV20005 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
EcoCinema | FATV20028 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Hollywood Cinema History | FATV20007 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Documentary Histories and Practices | FATV20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
British Cinema and Television | FATV20001 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Screen Performance | FATV20003 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Film Adaptation Across Borders | FATV20025 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Anime | FATV20031 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
History Pathway students should choose 40 credits from the complete list of History options: | |||||
Rethinking History | HIST23101 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
The Americas in Global Context | HIST20142 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Africa in Global Perspective | HIST20141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Asia in Global Perspective | HIST20143 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Outlaws | HIST20120 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Fear and Loathing | HIST20117 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Crusading Cultures | HIST20133 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Politics of the Past | HIST20144 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
The Public Role of the Historian | HIST20145 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Students can only take 20 credits from the below units; | |||||
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers | HIST20036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Building Modern Ireland, c. 1850-Present | HIST20139 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Health and Medicine in African History: Actors, Institutions, Ideas | HIST20147 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Modern Girls and New Women | HIST20146 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Under the Covers: Sex and Modern British Print Culture | HIST20138 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) | HIST26024 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Hong Kong and the World | HIST20135 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The F Word: Understanding Italian Fascism Then and Now | HIST20140 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Race, Migration and Diaspora in 19th and 20th Century Britain | HIST20136 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States | HIST20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective | HIST20128 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Black Death in England | HIST20125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages | HIST20132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Disease, Deviance and Disability in Modern Medicine | HIST20134 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-2 |
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008) | HIST20114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Decolonisation | HIST20116 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-2 |
Art in Britain (Level I Lecture Response Unit) | HART20024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit) | HART20026 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Modern European Art | HART20036 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Art and Empire | HART20038 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Curating the Object | HART20029 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-2 |
Race and Place | HART20031 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
How to Live Well: The Art of the Netherlands 1500-1700 | HART20030 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Early Italian Art | HART20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Cold War Culture: Art and Politics since 1945 (Level I Special Field) | HART26001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Queering the Early Modern | HART20041 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
French Pathway- Mandatory units: | |||||
French Language 2 | FREN20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
And 20 credits from the below list of French options: | |||||
French Drama | FREN20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
French Thought | FREN20068 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Francophone African Literature | FREN20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to French Cinema | FREN20056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
France in Ferment 1870-1940 | FREN20063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
French Fiction: from Realism to the 21st Century | FREN20048 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
France during the Second World War: culture, politics and society | FREN20070 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Women and Gender in Medieval French Literature (1150-1450) | FREN20071 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Algeria and France: Memory and Migration in Text and Image | FREN20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
German Pathway- Mandatory Units | |||||
If GERM10009 was taken in Year 1 select | |||||
German Language 2 (Post A-Level) | GERM20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Or; if GERM19003 was taken in year 1 select | |||||
German Language post ab initio | GERM20032 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Choose 20 credits from the following German options: | |||||
Transnational Nation: Germany 1840 - 1990 | GERM20047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840 | GERM20044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
From Judgement to Trial: Selected Works by Franz Kafka | GERM20049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Spanish Pathway- Mandatory UniT | |||||
Spanish Language | HISP20101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Choose 20 credits from Spanish options: | |||||
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry | HISP20115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 | HISP20076 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Barcelona: Culture and Representations | HISP20117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Latin American Cinema | HISP20114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain | HISP21309 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History | HISP20119 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World | HISP20118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Structures and Varieties of Spanish | HISP20123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Women's Writing and Filmmaking in Latin America | HISP20108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Spanish Peninsular literature since 1850 | HISP20121 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Portuguese Pathway- Mandatory Units: | |||||
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML | HISP20302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Choose 20 credits from Portuguese Options; | |||||
Introduction to Latin American Cinema | HISP20114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry | HISP20115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Russian Pathway- Mandatory Units: | |||||
Russian Language 2 | RUSS20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Choose 20 credits from Russian options: | |||||
-RUSS20043 can only be selected i students took RUSS10015 in Year One: | |||||
Revolutionary Russia, 1881-1917 | RUSS20066 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Culture and Politics 1917 - 1941 | RUSS20060 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Russian Orthodox Culture | RUSS20044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Intermediate Czech Language | RUSS20043 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Music Pathway students should pick 20 credits from the below options; | |||||
Performance | MUSI20058 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Further Technical Studies | MUSI20099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Approaches to Music History I | MUSI20142 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Approaches to Music History II | MUSI20143 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Compositional Strategy | MUSI20047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Composing Live Electronics | MUSI20126 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Music recording and production | MUSI20124 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Writing for Orchestra | MUSI20141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Hip-hop Music and Culture | MUSI20071 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Music and Sex | MUSI20111 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Romantic Imagination | MUSI20121 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-2 |
20th-Century Opera | MUSI20130 | 20 | Optional | C,E | TB-2 |
Introduction to Composing for Screen Media | MUSI20131 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-2 |
Philosophy Pathway students should take 40 credit form Philosophy options; | |||||
Realism and Normativity | PHIL20046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosophy of Mind | PHIL20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Aesthetics | PHIL20136 | 20 | Optional | D,E | TB-2 |
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 1 | PHIL20050 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Ethics | PHIL20011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Ancient Philosophy | PHIL20040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Death, dying and disease | PHIL20049 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Space, Time and Matter | PHIL20053 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Beyond Humanity | PHIL20063 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Religion and Theology Pathway- Mandatory units; | |||||
Religion: Contexts and Perspectives | THRS20214 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Or; | |||||
Religion: Practices and Ideas | THRS20215 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
And 20 credits from Religion and Theology Options; | |||||
Evil Monks, Foxy Ladies, and Pocket Monsters: Religion and Japanese Popular Culture | THRS20225 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
Religion and Material Culture | THRS20096 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
The Philosophy of Religion | THRS20102 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-1 |
Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS20188 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS20108 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Body, Gender and Religion | THRS20192 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Introduction to Hebrew 1 | THRS20224 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take one of: | |||||
Performance Histories | THTR20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Politics of Performance | THTR20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
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. | |||||
Students are also able to select one of the 20 credit point MODL units. NB- You do not need to be on a language pathway, but it is worth discussing any MODL options with SML before making a final unit selection | |||||
General Linguistics | MODL20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Historical Linguistics | MODL20017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages | MODL20021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture | MODL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Undergraduate Diploma | 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.