Programme structure: History (BA) - what's running in 2015/16

Students may substitute History of Art units from the parallel options lists. Details will be provided by the School.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Group Project	HIST23021	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Special Field Project	HIST23008	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Choose one Special Field unit from the following:
Ancient and Modern Paganism in Britain (Level I Special Field)	HIST26002	20	Optional		TB-2
Napoleon (Level I Special Field)	HIST26003	20	Optional		TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field)	HIST26008	20	Optional		TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field)	HIST26010	20	Optional		TB-2
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Special Field)	HIST26026	20	Optional		TB-2
Postcolonial Africa: Politics, Society and Culture (Level I Special Field)	HIST26027	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender and The British Empire (Level I Special Field)	HIST26029	20	Optional		TB-2
The Past That Does Not Pass: The Memory of WWII and the Holocaust (Level I Special Field)	HIST20069	20	Optional		TB-2
Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field)	HIST20076	20	Optional		TB-2
After Empire (Level I Special Field)	HIST20081	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Culture in Stuart England (Level I Special Field)	HIST20078	20	Optional		TB-2
History and Literature	HIST20039	20	Optional		TB-2
A Body of Evidence: Forensic Medicine in Britain (Level I Special Field)	HIST20043	20	Optional		TB-2
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers	HIST20036	20	Optional		TB-2
France and the World	HIST20038	20	Optional		TB-2
Choose two Lecture Response units from the following:
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25003	20	Optional		TB-1
Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25006	20	Optional		TB-1
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25007	20	Optional		TB-1
The Early Reformation (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25009	20	Optional		TB-1
Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25015	20	Optional		TB-1
Soviet Experiment: Constructing Socialism 1917-1991 (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25017	20	Optional		TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20021	20	Optional		TB-1
The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20023	20	Optional		TB-1
Marvels and Monsters (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20049	20	Optional		TB-1
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20052	20	Optional		TB-1
Memory and the Middle Ages	HIST20084	20	Optional		TB-1
The Business of the Humanities	HUMS20003	20	Optional		TB-1
Jewish Experience in Modern European History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20044	20	Optional		TB-1
Modern Latin American Revolutions	HIST20042	20	Optional		TB-1
War and Society	HIST20035	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may take 20 credit points of open units in place of a lecture response unit.	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).

Additional progress information

Please note that not every optional unit runs each year. Please contact Department for details on unit availability.