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 - Choose one 20 CP unit
Histories of the Polar Regions	HIST30102	20	Optional		TB-1
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37016	20	Optional		TB-1
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37011	20	Optional		TB-1
Race and Health in America	HIST30099	20	Optional		TB-1
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918	HIST30097	20	Optional		TB-1
Modern Witchcraft	HIST30112	20	Optional		TB-1
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present)	HIST30095	20	Optional		TB-1
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932)	HIST30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944	HIST30128	20	Optional	A	TB-1
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject)	HIST37010	20	Optional		TB-1
Constructing the Other	HIST30107	20	Optional		TB-1
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America	HIST30126	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose one 20 CP unit
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914	HIST30120	20	Optional		TB-1
Memory	HIST30113	20	Optional		TB-1
Picturing the Twentieth Century	HIST30114	20	Optional		TB-1
List D - Choose one 20 CP unit
Horrible Histories And All That	HIST30119	20	Optional		TB-2
Global Empires	HIST30122	20	Optional		TB-2
Millennial Britain	HIST30125	20	Optional		TB-2
List E
Dissertation	HIST33101	40	Mandatory	E	TB-4
Practice-Based Dissertation (History)	HIST30129	40	Mandatory	B,E	TB-4
List F
Race	HIST30117	20	Optional		TB-2
Sexualities	HIST30118	20	Optional		TB-2
Capitalism	HIST30115	20	Optional		TB-2
Or take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units	OPEN	20	Optional
History (BA)		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).

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.

Additional progress information

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