Programme structure: Theatre and Film (BA) - what's running in 2020/21

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students must take 40 CP Film units and 40 CP Theatre units
List A - Choose 20 CP from this list
Independent Study: Performance Project	THTR30015	40	Optional		TB-4
Independent Study: Dissertation	THTR30018	40	Optional		TB-4
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list unless you take DRAM30045 or FATV30002 40 CP FATV dissertation in list E
Independent Study: Extended Essay	THTR30017	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Translation and Adaptation	THTR30007	20	Optional		TB-1
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	FATV30011	20	Optional		TB-1
Digital Filmmaking	FATV30007	20	Optional		TB-1
Political Film	FATV30018	20	Optional		TB-1
Devised Performance	THTR30003	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary British Theatre	THTR30019	20	Optional		TB-1
The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices	THTR30022	20	Optional		TB-1
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list
Industrial Placement	FATV30008	20	Optional		TB-2
Industry Study	FATV30004	20	Optional		TB-2
Industry Study	FATV30004	20	Optional		TB-2
Devised Performance	THTR30003	20	Optional		TB-1
Translation and Adaptation	THTR30007	20	Optional		TB-1
The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices	THTR30022	20	Optional		TB-1
List E - Choose one unit from this list
Practical Project	FATV30009	20	Optional		TB-2
Written Dissertation	FATV30012	20	Optional		TB-2
Independent Study: Extended Essay	THTR30017	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Independent Study: Dissertation	THTR30018	40	Optional		TB-4
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list unless you take THTR30015 in list D
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-D above. However, you may not take THTR30017 in any combination with THTR30018, or FATV30012 in any combination with FATV30002 (40 CP FATV dissertation)	OPEN	20	Optional
Theatre and Film (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.