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Programme structure: Film and Television (BA) - what's running in 2022/23

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
List A
Film History to 1960 FATV20011 20 Optional TB-1
British Cinema and Television FATV20001 20 Optional TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list
Film Genre FATV20002 20 Optional B TB-1
The Film Director's Vision FATV20006 20 Optional TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
British Cinema and Television FATV20001 20 Optional TB-1
Film and TV Comedy FATV20005 20 Optional TB-1
Screen Performance FATV20003 20 Optional TB-2
Short Fiction Film FATV20022 20 Optional C TB-2
Fantasy Film FATV20017 20 Optional TB-1
List D
Film and Television History, 1960 to the present FATV20004 20 Optional TB-2
Hollywood Cinema History FATV20007 20 Optional TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Documentary Histories and Practices FATV20009 20 Optional TB-1
Animated Film FATV20010 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Technologies FATV20021 20 Optional TB-2
Film Adaptation Across Borders FATV20025 20 Optional TB-2
List F
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists B, C or E above OPEN 20 Optional
Diploma of Higher Education   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).

Additional progress information

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.

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