Programme structure: History (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

Students may substitute History of Art units from the parallel options lists. Details will be provided by the School.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
List A
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20	Mandatory		TB-1
List B
Global History	HIST20112	20	Mandatory		TB-1
List C1 - Choose 20 CP from this list
Fear and Loathing	HIST20117	20	Optional		TB-1
Outlaws	HIST20120	20	Optional		TB-1
The Tudor World	HIST20119	20	Optional		TB-1
List D
History in Public	HIST20089	20	Mandatory		TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers	HIST20036	20	Optional		TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London	HIST20099	20	Optional		TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field)	HIST26008	20	Optional		TB-2
Early and Modern Paganism	HIST20121	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field)	HIST26015	20	Optional		TB-2
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement	HIST20122	20	Optional		TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field)	HIST26024	20	Optional		TB-2
The Black Death in England	HIST20125	20	Optional		TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field)	HIST26010	20	Optional		TB-2
Global Development	HIST20126	20	Optional		TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective	HIST20128	20	Optional		TB-2
The Norman Conquest	HIST20127	20	Optional		TB-2
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States	HIST20129	20	Optional		TB-2
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages	HIST20132	20	Optional		TB-2
List C2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or list F
Decolonisation	HIST20116	20	Optional	C	TB-2
Progress or Peril? The History of Science, Technology and Medicine	HIST20113	20	Optional		TB-2
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008)	HIST20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Wild Things: Humans and other animals in History	HIST20115	20	Optional		TB-2
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or list C2
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units	OPEN	20	Optional
For students who take optional unit HUMS20002, this replaces all of the Year 2 units in TB1 or TB2, including units that are normally mandatory in this programme.
Study Abroad/ Erasmus	HUMS20002	60	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
You may additionally take MODL20018 in TB1 (and 130 credit points in total) in combination with HUMS20002.
Foreign Language Skills for Semester Abroad Students	MODL20018	10	Optional	F	TB-1
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

Please note that not every optional unit runs each year. Please contact Department for details on unit availability.

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.