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?
Mandatory Unit HISP20101 is must pass. For the definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You must take at least 40CP of HISP-coded units and at least 40CP of MUSI-coded units | |||||
| List A -Take 20CP or 40CP from this list. | |||||
| Approaches to Music History I | MUSI20142 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Spanish Language | HISP20101 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
| List B - Choose 20 CP from this list. Across Lists B, C and E, you must choose at least one of MUSI20099, MUSI20141, MUSI20058, MUSI20126, MUSI20056, MUSI20124 and MUSI20047. | |||||
| Further Technical Studies | MUSI20099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Writing for Orchestra | MUSI20141 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-1 |
| Composing Live Electronics | MUSI20126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| African-American Music in the 20th Century | MUSI20066 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Opera & Politics | MUSI20120 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Medieval Music Palaeography | MUSI20123 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Music and the Holocaust | MUSI20105 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History | HISP20119 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Women's Writing in Post-War Spain | HISP21309 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| General Linguistics | MODL20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List C - Choose 20 CP from this list. Across Lists B, C and E, you must choose at least one of MUSI20099, MUSI20141, MUSI20058, MUSI20126, MUSI20056, MUSI20124 and MUSI20047. | |||||
| Performance | MUSI20058 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Transcription and Editing | MUSI20056 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Composing Live Electronics | MUSI20126 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| African-American Music in the 20th Century | MUSI20066 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Music in Soviet Russia 1917-1991 | MUSI20073 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Music in Times of War | MUSI20119 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Opera & Politics | MUSI20120 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Music and the Holocaust | MUSI20105 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Film Musical | MUSI20144 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 | HISP20076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Barcelona: Culture and Representations | HISP20117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World | HISP20118 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages | MODL20021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Beginners Portuguese | MODL20022 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Migrations of Culture | MODL20024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List D - Choose 20 CP. You must choose MUSI20143 if you did not choose MUSI20142 in list A | |||||
| Approaches to Music History II | MUSI20143 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Languages of the Iberian Peninsula | HISP20088 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Introduction to Latin American Cinema | HISP20114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Historical Linguistics | MODL20017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture | MODL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List E - Choose 20 CP from this list. Across Lists B, C and E, you must choose at least one of MUSI20099, MUSI20141, MUSI20058, MUSI20126, MUSI20056, MUSI20124 and MUSI20047. | |||||
| Performance | MUSI20058 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Compositional Strategy | MUSI20047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Transcription and Editing | MUSI20056 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Music recording and production | MUSI20124 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Further Technical Studies | MUSI20099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Writing for Orchestra | MUSI20141 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-1 |
| Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry | HISP20115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Introduction to Spanish Peninsular literature since 1850 | HISP20121 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List F | |||||
| Choose 20 CP unit from the Bristol Futures list, the UWLP list or the faculty-wide list - OR choose one additional unit from lists A-E | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
| Diploma of Higher Education | 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).
