This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type II: Advanced Study, with a formal period of study abroad, in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissertation | AFACM0006 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
| Students take at least 40 cps in the subject pathway at level 7. | |||||
| As the Liberal Arts dissertation is expected to encompass aspects of the pathway subject, students' pathway units should not include dissertations from other departments. If there are no M-level units available for your pathway, you will be registered for a M-level POU instead, details below, which will be attached to a relevant third year option for your pathway. | |||||
| ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Visions: Experiments in Creative Anthropology | ARCHM0078 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Anthropological Theory and Practice | ARCHM0081 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Research Methods in Anthropology | ARCHM0080 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
| Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment | ARCHM0084 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Anthropology of Disability and Difference | ARCHM0083 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Stimulating Anthropology: Drugs and Society | ARCHM0077 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives | ARCHM0076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. There are no M-Level units within the Department of Classics and Ancient History so pathway students will need to choose 40 credits of third year options which will be attached to POUs. | |||||
| The Passions | CLAS30035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Peoples and Places: Knowing the Ancient World | CLAS30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Women and the Family in Ancient Greek Tragedy | CLAS30027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophies of Eros: Ancient and Modern | CLAS30043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide | CLAS30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Configurations of Gender and Sexuality | CLAS32335 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Minoans | CLAS37018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Pompeii | CLAS32345 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Persian Empire | CLAS30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| ENGLISH PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Introduction to Literary Research | ENGLM3029 | 40 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Modernism, Experimentation and Form | ENGLM0039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts | ENGLM0037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Romantic Poetry and Poetics | ENGLM3009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives | ENGLM0066 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Contemporary Literature | ENGLM0038 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Hamlet: Text and Interpretation | ENGLM3012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Intertextual Shakespeare | ENGLM3013 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Literature 1940-1970: Writing After War, After Modernism | ENGLM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Literature and Medicine | ENGLM3022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Animal Planet: Humans and other animals in modernity | ENGLM0056 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Writing in the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Uranium | ENGLM0067 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Gothic | ENGLM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Writing for Art | ENGLM3018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Victorian Literature and Place | ENGLM0034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| FILM PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Documentary Film and Television | FATVM0003 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Film and Television Production Technologies and Techniques | FATVM0022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Screen Forms and Analysis | FATVM0016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Screening Nations | FATVM0017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Making Short Fiction Film | FATVM0025 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Screen Research | FATVM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Art of Cinematography | FATVM0004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Art of Editing | FATVM0005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY- Mandatory units. 20 credits of; | |||||
| Approaches to History | HISTM2009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Research Skills for Medievalists | AFACM1001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Researching and Writing History | HISTM0055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Histories, Theories and Critical Interpretations of Art: 1 | HARTM0025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Histories, Theories and Critical Interpretations of Art: 2 | HARTM0026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| HISTORICAL STUDIES- Options; | |||||
| Environment and History | HISTM0078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Rewriting Modern Britain | HISTM0079 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Themes in the History of Colonialism | HISTM0017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Explorations in Early Modern History | HISTM0081 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Race in America | HISTM0084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Post-Apartheid South Africa: Rainbow Nation and Insurgent Citizens | HISTM0083 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Ideology, Poverty and Famines | HISTM2017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Histories of Extreme Environments | HISTM0082 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| English Civil Wars, 1625-1662 | HISTM0088 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Making History Public | HISTM2016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Oceans & Globalisation: 1700-1945 | HISTM0100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Art and Fashion | HARTM0042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HARTM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Text and Image (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| MUSIC PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Performance Studies | MUSIM0022 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR,TB-4 | |
| Can only be taken if students have studied Performance throughout their degree | |||||
| Composition Portfolio | MUSIM0011 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR,TB-4 | |
| Cannot be taken if students have studied Performance throughout their degree | |||||
| Contemporary Compositional Ideas and Techniques | MUSIM0006 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Accompaniment in Practice | MUSIM0041 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Readings In Musicology | MUSIM0036 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Research Skills for Musicians | MUSIM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Advanced Orchestration | MUSIM0043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Introduction to Professional Composing | MUSIM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Source Study, Paleography and Editorial Practices | MUSIM0014 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Critical Analysis of Media Music | MUSIM0020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Advanced Technical Studies | MUSIM0042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| FRENCH PATHWAY; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following French options; | |||||
| Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Around Cubism | FREN30096 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Intellectuals and the Media in France | FREN30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Francophone Women Directors: Documentary Filmmaking | FREN30111 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Censor's Scissors, 1750-1830 | FREN30112 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades | FREN30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Leadership in France | FREN30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| French Dialectology: Language Variation and Change in the Espace Francophone TB-2 | FREN30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| GERMAN pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following German options; | |||||
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Language Variation and Change in German | GERM30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| German Economic Policy Narratives | GERM30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times | GERM30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| ITALIAN pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Italian options; | |||||
| Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| PORTUGUESE pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Portuguese options; | |||||
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries | HISP30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America | HISP30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| RUSSIAN pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Russian options; | |||||
| Writing Revolution: Russian Literature, 1910-1940 | RUSS30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| SPANISH pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| And 20 credits of POU studied with one of the following Spanish options; | |||||
| The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance | HISP30092 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| History of Latin America's Indigenous People | HISP30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America | HISP30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Philosophy of Biology | PHILM0006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Epistemology and Metaphysics | PHILM0021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| History of Science | PHILM0007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Philosophy of Science | PHILM0033 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Philosophy of Psychology | PHILM0020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Value Theory | PHILM0026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Comparative Religions: Themes and Methods | THRSM0119 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Atheism | THRSM0107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Buddhism in Practice | THRSM0118 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Medieval Religion: Christianity and Islam | THRSM0134 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Vatican II and Post-conciliar Roman Catholic Debates in Theology | THRSM0123 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Body in East Asian Thought and Practices | THRSM0133 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health | THRSM0105 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRSM0109 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| THEATRE OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
| Independent Research Project | THTRM0011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The following units will be studied attached to a POU; | |||||
| Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation | THTR30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Students may take the following unit in place of 20cps in the subject pathway: | |||||
| The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMSM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Students may then choose up to 40 credits from further options at level 7 as listed above, or may use the following units to access units from the undergraduate curriculum (subject to permission from the relevant department). | |||||
| Students can additionally choose 20 credits from optional MODL units at level 7; | |||||
| Institutions of Culture | MODLM0022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Rise of the Novel in 19th-Century Europe | MODLM2035 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image | MODLM2048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Theorizing Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions | MODLM0025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Cultural Encounters | MODLM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Global Cultures of the Book | MODLM0015 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction | MODLM2034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Cultural Imagination of Gender | MODLM0023 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Translation and International Film Distribution | MODLM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Liberal Arts with Study Abroad (MLibArts) | 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.
