This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning progression and completion are held in the University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional requirements.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Mandatory unit HISP20101 is must pass. For the definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Spanish Language | HISP20101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Students must choose at least 20cp but no more than 40cp from the following list: | |||||
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History | HISP20119 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain | HISP21309 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 | HISP20076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Barcelona: Culture and Representations | HISP20117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World | HISP20118 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula | HISP20088 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Latin American Cinema | HISP20114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry | HISP20115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Spanish Peninsular literature since 1850 | HISP20121 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students may choose up to 40cp from the following list: | |||||
World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
General Linguistics | MODL20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages | MODL20021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Beginners Portuguese | MODL20022 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Migrations of Culture | MODL20024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Historical Linguistics | MODL20017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture | MODL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
60 credit points from: | |||||
Development Studies | POLI21213 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Co-operation and Integration In Europe | POLI21214 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modern British Government and Politics | POLI20014 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Democracy and US Government | POLI21226 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa | POLI21231 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Principles of Quantitative Social Science | SOCI20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data | POLI20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Contemporary Political Theory | POLI22202 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary International Relations | POLI20002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia | POLI29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
NGO Development & Practice | POLI20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Understanding Genocide | POLI20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Russian Politics | POLI20006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The History of Western Political Thought | POLI20007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in South Asia | POLI20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Global Justice | POLI20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Comparative and International Political Economy | POLI20012 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Investigating Society (Politics) | POLI20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
State and Non-State Violence in Latin America | POLI20017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Politics of the Environment | POLI20018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students also have the option of taking a Teaching Block abroad as long as they meet all grade and other requirements set by SPAIS study abroad programme | |||||
Study Abroad (Term) | SPAI20030 | 60 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
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.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
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).