What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Students are required to take the following academic language and academic literacy units. | |||||
Text Response | LANG00010 | 30 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Academic Writing | LANG00006 | 30 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Instead of the above academic language and academic literacy units, students with a minimum IELTS 7 (overall) and a 6.0 in writing will take the following units: | |||||
Accelerated Academic Language and Literacy | LANG00023 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Language and Communication Studies | LANG00017 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Students will take the following units. (Students wishing to progress degrees with a Higher Numeracy requirement may be required to take Essential Mathematics) | |||||
Literature: Exploring Short Stories | LANG00016 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Culture and Identity | LANG00039 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
What Does it Mean to be Human? | LANG00046 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Essential Mathematics | LANG00037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
International Foundation Programme Arts and Humanities | 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).
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.