What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Students take different combinations of units depending on the type of undergraduate degree programme they are hoping to progress onto. The combinations are for:
Students on the IFP+ take different mandatory units and have more optional choice.
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Text Response | LANG00010 | 30 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Academic Writing | LANG00006 | 30 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Instead of the above units, students on the IFP+ (with a minimum IELTS 7.0 (overall) and a 6.0 in writing) will take: | |||||
Accelerated Academic Writing | LANG00019 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Accelerated Text Response | LANG00018 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Students wishing to progress onto degrees in Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Philosophy, Social Policy, and Childhood Studies must take the following unit: | |||||
Introduction to the Social Sciences | SPOL00001 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Students wishing to progress onto degrees in Law must take the following unit: | |||||
British Constitutional History | LANG00012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Plus students wishing to progress to Law must choose one of the following units: | |||||
Introduction to the Social Sciences | SPOL00001 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
What Does it Mean to be Human? I: The Modern World | ARTF00004 | 40 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Students wishing to progress onto degrees in Economics, Finance, Accounting and Management must take all of the following units: | |||||
Foundations of Finance and Economics | EFIM01000 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Introductory Foundations of Mathematics | MATH00002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Further Foundations of Mathematics | MATH00001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Any student can then select units from the list below if they have not already reached a total of 120 credit points: | |||||
Literature: Exploring Short Stories | LANG00016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Language and Communication Studies | LANG00017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Post-War European Cinema | DRAM00001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Foundations of Finance and Economics | EFIM01000 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
British Constitutional History | LANG00012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
What Does it Mean to be Human? I: The Modern World | ARTF00004 | 40 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Introduction to the Social Sciences | SPOL00001 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Foundations in Biomedical Sciences | MVSF00001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
International Foundation Programme Social Sciences and Law | 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.