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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Dissertation | AFAC30002 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMS30001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-2 | |
Students take at least 20 cps in their subject pathway at level 6: | |||||
ANTHROPOLOGY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Human Challenges | ARCH30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment | ARCH30051 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology | ARCH30039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Visions: Experiments in Creative Anthropology | ARCH30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Human Challenges | ARCH30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives | ARCH30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Primatology | ARCH30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
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 | |
Roman Emperors - A Survival Guide | CLAS30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Configurations of Gender and Sexuality | CLAS32335 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Applied Classics | CLAS30039 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
The Minoans | CLAS37018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Pompeii | CLAS32345 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
The Persian Empire | CLAS30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Histories of Violence | CLAS30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
You may also choose between the following language units. Please note that students taking languages at level B and above must have the necessary pre-requisites. | |||||
Greek Language Level C1 | CLAS32405 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level C1 | CLAS32407 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level D1 | CLAS30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin Language Level D1 | CLAS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greek Language Level C2 | CLAS32406 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level C2 | CLAS32408 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Latin Language Level D2 | CLAS32343 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
ENGLISH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
American Revolutions | ENGL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literatures of Decolonisation | ENGL30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction | ENGL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace | ENGL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature | ENGL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Illness Narratives | ENGL30089 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
James Joyce | ENGL30045 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature's Children | ENGL39015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism | ENGL39027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Representing HIV/AIDS | ENGL30141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics | ENGL30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The History of the Language of English Literature | ENGL30123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature and Medicine | ENGL39011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Rewriting the Bible | ENGL30129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing | ENGL30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernist Writers | ENGL30140 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography | ENGL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing for Art | ENGL39019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
FILM PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Contemporary World Cinemas | FATV30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FATV30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
HISTORICAL STUDIES PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 | HIST30120 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Memory | HIST30113 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Horrible Histories And All That | HIST30119 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Global Empires | HIST30122 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Millennial Britain | HIST30125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Capitalism | HIST30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Race | HIST30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Sexualities | HIST30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Fashion | HART30051 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Lecture Response Unit) | HART30025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HART30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Art of the Northern Renaissance (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HART30043 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
German Expressionism | HART30035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean | HART30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Internationalism (Level H Special Subject) | HART30042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Prints | HART30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Approaches to the Artist (Reflective Art History Unit) | HART30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students can only take 20 credits of the below list; | |||||
Race and Health in America | HIST30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918 | HIST30097 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) | HIST30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America | HIST30126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944 | HIST30128 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present) | HIST30095 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Histories of the Polar Regions | HIST30102 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
LANGUAGES - FRENCH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Around Cubism | FREN30096 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Intellectuals and the Media in France | FREN30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Censor's Scissors, 1750-1830 | FREN30112 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Alchemy of Influence: Imitation, Translation, and Creativity | FREN30131 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGES - GERMAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times | GERM30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
LANGUAGES - ITALIAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Boccaccio's Decameron | ITAL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) | ITAL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGES - RUSSIAN PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
LANGUAGES - SPANISH PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
History of Latin America's Indigenous People | HISP30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture | HISP30084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
LANGUAGES - PORTUGUESE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
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 | |
MUSIC PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Aesthetics and Criticism | MUSI30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
PHILOSOPHY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences | PHIL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2 | PHIL30116 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Virtue and Well-Being | PHIL30126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosophy of Science | PHIL30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Philosophy of Psychology | PHIL30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Philosophy and the Environment | PHIL30112 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Death, dying and disease | PHIL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Evil, Deviance, and Crime | PHIL30127 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students can take one but not both of the following units; | |||||
The Philosophy and History of Medicine | PHIL30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosophy of Biology | PHIL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
RELIGION & THEOLOGY PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Atheism | THRS30050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Buddhism in Practice | THRS30081 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health | THRS30067 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS30077 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS30171 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
THEATRE PATHWAY - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list. | |||||
Contemporary British Theatre | THTR30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translation and Adaptation | THTR30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Up to 40 credits may be taken in optional units, of which at least 20 credits must be at level H/6. | |||||
Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives | MODL30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures | MODL30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Liberal Arts (BA) | 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.