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Programme structure: Film and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2020/21

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Project Development and Creative Industries FATV30003 20 Mandatory TB-1
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees HISP30101 20 Mandatory TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than three units from the following list:
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca HISP30029 20 Optional TB-1
Hispanic Sociolinguistics HISP30056 20 Optional TB-1
Spanish for Business HISP30057 20 Optional TB-4
History of Latin America's Indigenous People HISP30068 20 Optional TB-2
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds HISP30070 20 Optional TB-1
Colombia: History and Culture since Independence HISP30071 20 Optional TB-1
The Cuban Revolution in the World: Culture and Politics of Internationalism HISP30074 20 Optional TB-2
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 HISP30076 20 Optional TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture HISP30084 20 Optional TB-2
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America HISP30086 20 Optional TB-2
Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance HISP30092 20 Optional TB-1
The Novels of Carmen Laforet HISP31026 20 Optional TB-2
Students may choose up to two unit from the following list:
Communism in Europe MODL30001 20 Optional TB-1
Independent Study 1 MODL30005 20 Optional TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context MODL30010 20 Optional TB-1
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change MODL30015 20 Optional TB-2
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema MODL30018 20 Optional TB-2
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures MODL30020 20 Optional TB-1
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives MODL30026 20 Optional TB-2
Environmental Entanglements: Issues in Ecocriticsm MODL30032 20 Optional TB-1
This unit is available to students studying Programmes of French German Spanish Italian and Russian:
Liaison Interpreting MODL30006 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study:
Catalan Language (follow-on) MODL30011 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on) MODL30012 20 Optional TB-4
Students must take between 20 - 40 credit points from the following list (students are not permitted to select both FATV30004 Industry Study and FATV30008 Industrial Placement):
Written Dissertation FATV30012 20 Optional TB-2
Industrial Placement FATV30008 20 Optional TB-2
Industry Study FATV30004 20 Optional TB-2
Practical Project FATV30009 20 Optional TB-2
If students have only selected a total of 40 credit points of Film units, then please choose an additional 20 credits from the list below:
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema FATV30011 20 Optional TB-1
Digital Filmmaking FATV30007 20 Optional TB-1
Political Film FATV30018 20 Optional TB-1
Choose open units OPEN 20 Optional
Film and Spanish (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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