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Programme structure: English and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2022/23

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Mandatory unit Spanish 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
Besides the mandatory dissertation MODL30029, you must also take 40cp of HISP-coded units including the mandatory 20cp language unit HISP30101.
List A - Take the mandatory language unit. Additionally choose a further 20cp unit from list A, list E2 or list F
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace ENGL30117 20 Optional TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction ENGL30115 20 Optional TB-1
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees HISP30101 20 Mandatory TB-4
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
American Revolutions ENGL30108 20 Optional TB-1
Literatures of Decolonisation ENGL30147 20 Optional TB-1
Hispanic Sociolinguistics HISP30056 20 Optional TB-1
Spanish for Business HISP30057 20 Optional TB-4
Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present) HISP30100 20 Optional TB-2
Translating in a Professional Context MODL30010 20 Optional TB-1
Catalan Language (follow-on) MODL30011 20 Optional TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on) MODL30012 20 Optional TB-4
Follow-on Portuguese MODL30037 20 Optional TB-4
Liaison Interpreting MODL30006 20 Optional TB-1,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
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 HISP30076 20 Optional TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture HISP30084 20 Optional TB-2
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World HISP30098 20 Optional TB-2
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives MODL30026 20 Optional TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Modern Languages and English Dissertation MODL30029 40 Mandatory TB-4
List E2 - Choose 20cp from this list or from list F unless you take 40cp in list A
Charles Dickens ENGL39020 20 Optional TB-2
Literature and Medicine ENGL39011 20 Optional TB-2
Modernist Writers ENGL30140 20 Optional TB-2
Rewriting the Bible ENGL30129 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
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography ENGL30107 20 Optional TB-2
List F - Choose 20cp from this list or list E2 unless you take 40cp in list A
Take 20 cp From UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR you may choose an additional option unit from list A-E. OPEN 20 Optional
English and Spanish (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.

Additional progress information

The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (English and Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes

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