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

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Mandatory Unit Russian Language is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
You must take at least 40 CP or RUSS-coded units and at least 40 CP of MUSI-coded units
List A - Take 20CP or 40CP from this list
Approaches to Music History I MUSI20142 20 Optional TB-1
Russian Language 2 RUSS20008 20 Mandatory TB-4
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list. Across Lists B and C, you must choose at least one of MUSI20099, MUSI20141, MUSI20058 and MUSI20057.
Further Technical Studies MUSI20099 20 Optional TB-1
Writing for Orchestra MUSI20141 20 Optional TB-1
African-American Music in the 20th Century MUSI20066 20 Optional TB-1
Music and Sex MUSI20111 20 Optional TB-1
Opera & Politics MUSI20120 20 Optional TB-1
Medieval Music Palaeography MUSI20123 20 Optional TB-1
Composing Live Electronics MUSI20126 20 Optional TB-1
Russian Orthodox Culture RUSS20044 20 Optional TB-1
Engineers of the Human Soul TB-1 RUSS20064 20 Optional TB-1
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
Performance MUSI20058 20 Optional TB-4
African-American Music in the 20th Century MUSI20066 20 Optional TB-1
Intertextuality in Music MUSI20068 20 Optional TB-2
Music in Soviet Russia 1917-1991 MUSI20073 20 Optional TB-2
Music and Sex MUSI20111 20 Optional TB-1
Music in Times of War MUSI20119 20 Optional TB-2
Composing Live Electronics MUSI20126 20 Optional TB-1
Russian Orthodox Culture RUSS20044 20 Optional TB-1
Intermediate Czech Language RUSS20043 20 Optional TB-4
Engineers of the Human Soul TB-1 RUSS20064 20 Optional TB-1
Catalan Language (Elementary) MODL23014 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary) MODL23015 20 Optional TB-4
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages MODL20021 20 Optional TB-1
Beginners Portuguese MODL20022 20 Optional TB-4
List D - Choose 20CP. You must choose MUSI20143 if you did not choose MUSI20142 in list A
Approaches to Music History II MUSI20143 20 Optional TB-2
Hedgehogs and Foxes (TB2) RUSS20053 20 Optional TB-2
Historical Linguistics MODL20017 20 Optional TB-2
Women and Nation TB-2 MODL20023 20 Optional TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Performance MUSI20058 20 Optional TB-4
Music recording and production MUSI20124 20 Optional E TB-2
Compositional Strategy MUSI20047 20 Optional TB-2
Hedgehogs and Foxes (TB2) RUSS20053 20 Optional TB-2
Women and Nation TB-2 MODL20023 20 Optional TB-2
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      

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).

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