Programme structure: English and Philosophy (BA) - what's running in 2016/17

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Realism and Normativity	PHIL20046	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Students must take one of the following:
Literature 1 (1200-1500)	ENGL20200	40	Optional		TB-1
Literature 2 (1500-1700)	ENGL20201	40	Optional		TB-2
And either the other Literature unit as a 20 credit point unit ENGL20200 or ENGL20201 OR one of the following:
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception	ENGL29032	20	Optional		TB-2
Arthurian Literature	ENGL29021	20	Optional		TB-2
American Literature: 1945 to Present	ENGL29007	20	Optional		TB-1
Darkest London	ENGL29026	20	Optional		TB-1
The Uncanny	ENGL29027	20	Optional		TB-1
Satire	ENGL20022	20	Optional		TB-2
Dangerous Books	ENGL20023	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News	ENGL20020	20	Optional		TB-2
Black British Literature	ENGL20041	20	Optional		TB-2
Presenting the Future	ENGL20044	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America	ENGL20019	20	Optional		TB-1
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing	ENGL20031	20	Optional		TB-1
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage	ENGL20206	20	Optional		TB-1
Poetry of the 1960s	ENGL20032	20	Optional		TB-1
Revenge Tragedy	ENGL29008	20	Optional		TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English	ENGL20028	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Working Classes	ENGL20030	20	Optional		TB-2
The Poet as Witness	ENGL29006	20	Optional		TB-1
Creative Writing: Poetry	ENGL20051	20	Optional		TB-1
The Author as Character	ENGL20048	20	Optional		TB-2
Queer Writing	ENGL20049	20	Optional		TB-1
Beats & Crazies	ENGL20034	20	Optional		TB-2
Landscape, Poetry, and Aesthetics	ENGL20053	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin	ENGL20054	20	Optional		TB-1
Sex and Gender at the Fin de Siècle	ENGL20055	20	Optional		TB-1
Utopian Literature	ENGL20058	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the Atlantic World	ENGL20059	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to the Medical Humanities	HUMS20004	20	Optional		TB-2
The Age of the Anthropocene	HUMS20005	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Digital Humanities	HUMS20006	20	Optional		TB-1
40 credit points from:
Epistemology	PHIL20009	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mind	PHIL20010	20	Optional		TB-2
Ethics	PHIL20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Philosophy	PHIL20012	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Language	PHIL20017	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science	PHIL20037	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mathematics	PHIL20039	20	Optional		TB-2
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche	PHIL20041	20	Optional		TB-1
Logic 2	PHIL20036	20	Optional		TB-1
Death, dying and disease	PHIL20049	20	Optional		TB-2
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL20053	20	Optional		TB-2
Diploma of Higher Education		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).

Additional progress information

Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.