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

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Italian Language 3	ITAL30001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
Naples: Culture, Identity and Nation	ITAL30045	20	Optional		TB-2
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema	ITAL30046	20	Optional		TB-1
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso	ITAL30059	20	Optional		TB-2
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s	ITAL30050	20	Optional		TB-1
Plus
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees	HISP30302	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
Hispanic Sociolinguistics	HISP30056	20	Optional		TB-1
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries	HISP30058	20	Optional		TB-2
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds	HISP30070	20	Optional		TB-1
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America	HISP30086	20	Optional		TB-2
Portuguese for Business Not available in this year	HISP30095	20	Mandatory
Students may choose up to two unit from the following list:
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional		TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change	MODL30015	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema	MODL30018	20	Optional		TB-2
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures	MODL30020	20	Optional		TB-1
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives	MODL30026	20	Optional		TB-2
Environmental Entanglements: Issues in Ecocriticsm	MODL30032	20	Optional		TB-1
This unit is available to students studying Programmes of French German Spanish Italian and Russian:
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study:
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional		TB-4
Italian and Portuguese (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.