Programme structure: Film and English (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
You must take at least 40 CP in English units and at least 40 CP in Film and Television units
List A - Choose 20 CP from this list
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
Television: Ideas and Industry	FATV30020	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary World Cinemas	FATV30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Film Festivals	FATV30023	20	Optional		TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature	ENGL30069	20	Optional		TB-1
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-1
Modernism and the Movies	ENGL30128	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature's Children	ENGL39015	20	Optional		TB-1
Representing HIV/AIDS	ENGL30141	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing	ENGL30058	20	Optional		TB-1
Women on the Verge: Gender and Experimentation in the 20th/21st Century	ENGL30149	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-1
Film Criticism	FATV30006	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	FATV30011	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaching Video Games	FATV30024	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Literatures of Decolonisation	ENGL30147	20	Optional		TB-1
Global Cinemas / Local Stories	FATV30005	20	Optional		TB-1
Political Film	FATV30018	20	Optional		TB-1
Character Animation	FATV30021	20	Optional		TB-1
Industrial Placement	FATV30008	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Television Drama	FATV30022	20	Optional		TB-2
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation	ENGL30142	20	Optional		TB-2
Practical Project	FATV30009	20	Optional		TB-2
Screenwriting: From Idea to Pitch	FATV30025	20	Optional		TB-2
Industry Study	FATV30004	20	Optional		TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Creative Writing Dissertation	ENGL30126	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Dissertation	ENGL30112	40	Optional		TB-4
Dissertation (English)	ENGL39024	20	Optional	B,E	TB-2
Written Dissertation	FATV30012	20	Optional		TB-2
Industry Study	FATV30004	20	Optional		TB-2
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or list F
Charles Dickens	ENGL39020	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Modernist Writers	ENGL30140	20	Optional		TB-2
Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas	ENGL30145	20	Optional		TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
Victorian Materialities	ENGL30079	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Medievalism in the Modern Age	ENGL30150	20	Optional	E	TB-2
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or list E2
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units OR choose an additional 20 CP in TB2 from either list C, D, or E. Please note that you cannot take both FATV30008 and FATV30004	OPEN	20	Optional
Film and English (BA)		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).

Degree classifications:

• First Class Honours 70 and above
• Second Class Honours, First Division 60-69
• Second Class Honours, Second Division 50-59
• Third Class Honours 40-49
• Fail 39 and below

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.