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.
This integrated Masters programme has been designated as type II: Specialised or Advanced Masters in accordance with the QAA Degree Characteristics Statement. 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 | E | 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 - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Anthropological Theory and Practice | ARCHM0081 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Research Methods in Anthropology | ARCHM0080 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment | ARCHM0084 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Anthropology of Disability and Difference | ARCHM0083 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| A Planetary Caribbean: Land. Sea. Sky. Plantation. Plot | ARCHM0086 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Classics & Ancient History Pathway - 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. | |||||
| Sappho: Poetry and Society in Ancient Greece | CLAS30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| 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-1 | |
| The Persian Empire | CLAS30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Comparative Paganism | CLAS30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| English Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from the list below: | |||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Victorian Literature and Place | ENGLM0034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Film Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from the list below: | |||||
| 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 | |
| Television Drama | FATVM0001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Historical Studies Pathway - Select units from the list below: | |||||
| Environment and History | HISTM0078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Approaches to History | HISTM2009 | 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 | |
| Historians and the Boundaries of the Body | HISTM0104 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Race in America | HISTM0084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) | HISTM0032 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Nature of Britain: Environmental Histories of an Atlantic Island | HISTM0103 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Ideology, Poverty and Famines | HISTM2017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Researching and Writing History | HISTM0055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Making History Public | HISTM2016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Food Counter-Cultures: Food Movements in Contemporary History | HISTM0105 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| English Civil Wars, 1625-1662 | HISTM0088 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Oceans & Globalisation: 1700-1945 | HISTM0100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Art and Fashion | HARTM0042 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Art and the Natural World | HART30054 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HARTM0040 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0032 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Text and Image (Level M Lecture Response Unit) | HARTM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Collaborative Curatorial Unit - A | HARTM0021 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Independent Study Unit: Curating a Collection | HARTM0039 | 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 can only be taken if students have studied Performance throughout their degree and cannot be taken if students have studied Composition throughout their degree: | |||||
| Performance Studies | MUSIM0022 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR | |
| Composition portfolio can only be taken if students have studies Composition throughout their degree and cannot be taken if students have studied Performance throughout their degree: | |||||
| Composition Portfolio | MUSIM0011 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR | |
| Optional units: | |||||
| Contemporary Compositional Ideas and Techniques | MUSIM0006 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Performance Studies | MUSIM0022 | 60 | Optional | AYEAR | |
| 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 | |
| The following options need to be taken with a 20 credit point POU | |||||
| Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France | FREN30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Intellectuals and the Media in France | FREN30108 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Francophone Women Directors: Documentary Filmmaking | FREN30111 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| GERMAN pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| The following options need to be taken with a 20 credit point POU | |||||
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Language Variation and Change in German | GERM30074 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| ITALIAN pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| The following options need to be taken with a 20 credit point POU | |||||
| Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | C,E | TB-2 |
| 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 | |
| The following options need to be taken with a 20 credit point POU | |||||
| Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America | HISP30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| RUSSIAN pathway; | |||||
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Studied with; | |||||
| Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| The following options need to be taken with a 20 credit point POU | |||||
| 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 | |
| The following options need to be taken with a 20 credit point POU | |||||
| The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Indigenous Histories in Latin America | HISP30106 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America | HISP30086 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| 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-1 | |
| Philosophy of Psychology | PHILM0020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Value Theory | PHILM0026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Religion & Theology Pathway - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from the list below: | |||||
| The Theology of Martin Luther | THRSM0122 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | THRSM0136 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Political Islam | THRSM0140 | 20 | Optional | A,B | TB-1 |
| Medieval Mystics and Visionaries in Medieval England | THRSM0100 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| THEATRE OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose two optional units from the list below: | |||||
| Independent Research Project | THTRM0011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Site-Specific and Immersive Performance | THTRM0007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Students can take the M-Level version of the Year 3 Liberal Arts mandatory unit Public Role of the Humanities as an optional unit in Year 4 | |||||
| The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMSM0002 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Students may then choose up to 60 credit points from further options at level M/7 as listed above. As there are no formal prerequisites for M-Level study, we would suggest you consider whether you have background knowledge and awareness of assessment in the field/s that you choose. | |||||
| 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 | |
| Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction | MODLM2034 | 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.
