Programme structure: Theatre and English (BA) - what's running in 2024/25

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students must take at least 40 CP English and 40 CP Theatre units
List A - Choose between 20 CP and 60 CP from this list to a maximum of 1 unit for Theatre and 1 unit for English
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional	A	TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
Independent Study: Performance Project	THTR30015	40	Optional		TB-4
Independent Study: Dissertation	THTR30018	40	Optional		TB-4
List B - Choose one unit from this list
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature	ENGL30069	20	Optional		TB-1
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	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
Women on the Verge: Gender and Experimentation in the 20th/21st Century	ENGL30149	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas	ENGL30145	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional	B,E	TB-1,TB-2
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
Independent Study: Extended Essay	THTR30017	20	Optional	B,E	TB-1,TB-2
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional	A	TB-1
Literatures of Decolonisation	ENGL30147	20	Optional	C	TB-1
List D - Choose one unit from this list
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation	ENGL30142	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Professional Development in Theatre and Performance	THTR30023	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
List E - Choose one unit (20/40 CP) from this list - unless you take THTR30018 or THTR30015 in list A
Creative Writing Dissertation	ENGL30126	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Dissertation	ENGL30112	40	Optional		TB-4
Dissertation (English)	ENGL39024	20	Optional	B,E	TB-2
Independent Study: Extended Essay	THTR30017	20	Optional	B,E	TB-1,TB-2
Professional Development in Theatre and Performance	THTR30023	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
List E2 - Choose one unit (20 CP) from this list or from list F unless you have chosen a 40 CP unit from list A or E
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Modernist Writers	ENGL30140	20	Optional		TB-2
Victorian Poetry: Belief, Doubt, and Dissent	ENGL30143	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional	B,E	TB-1,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
Caribbean Literature	ENGL30148	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Modernism and the Movies	ENGL30128	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional	E	TB-2
List F - Choose one unit (20 CP) from this list or from list E2 unless you have chosen a 40 CP unit from list A or E
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above. However, you may not choose both THTR30018 and THTR30017 in any combination.	OPEN	20	Optional
Theatre and English (BA)		120

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

• 40 out of 100 – for level 4, 5 & 6 units
• 50 out of 100 – for level 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 100 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 100 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.