This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning progression and completion are held in the University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional requirements.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
What do the Faculty of Arts Categories mean?
Mandatory Unit Italian Language is must pass. For the definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Besides the mandatory units, you must take at least one further 20cp ENGL-coded unit and at least one further ITAL or MODL-coded unit | |||||
| List A - Choose either ENGL20063 in this list or ENGL20064 in list D. | |||||
| Literature 1740-1900 | ENGL20063 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Italian Language 2 | ITAL20001 | 20 | Mandatory | A | TB-4 |
| List B - Choose one 20cp unit from list B, list E or list E2 | |||||
| Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration | ITAL20032 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-2 |
| Italian Fascism | ITAL20045 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| Dante's Inferno | ITAL20047 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| World Cinemas: from national to transnational | MODL23016 | 20 | Optional | B,F | TB-1 |
| Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | B,F | TB-1 |
| American Literature: 1945 to Present | ENGL29007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World | ENGL20113 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Revenge Tragedy | ENGL29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Fairy Tale in English | ENGL20028 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present | ENGL20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception | ENGL29032 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Border-Worlds | ENGL20135 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present | ENGL20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Art of Grief | ENGL20116 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Utopian Literature | ENGL20058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List C - Choose 20 CP from this list | |||||
| Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration | ITAL20032 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-2 |
| Dante's Inferno | ITAL20047 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| Italian Fascism | ITAL20045 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| General Linguistics | MODL20016 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
| Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages | MODL20021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Beginners Portuguese | MODL20022 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Migrations of Culture | MODL20024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| List D - Choose either ENGL20064 in this list or ENGL20063 in list A, and one further 20cp unit | |||||
| Literature 1900-present | ENGL20064 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Renaissance Italy | ITAL20046 | 20 | Optional | A,E | TB-2 |
| Cinema and Revolution | MODL20020 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture | MODL20026 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Fairy Tales Across Borders | MODL20029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Essay: History, Genre, Media | MODL20030 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| List E - Choose one 20cp unit from list E, list E2 or list B | |||||
| Dante's Inferno | ITAL20047 | 20 | Optional | B,C | TB-1 |
| Renaissance Italy | ITAL20046 | 20 | Optional | A,E | TB-2 |
| Historical Linguistics | MODL20017 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Arthurian Literature | ENGL20060 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Chaucer and Chaucerians | ENGL20061 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Old English Language and Literature | ENGL20065 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| List E2 - Choose one 20cp unit from list E2, list B or list E | |||||
| Black British Literature | ENGL20041 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Creative Writing: Poetry | ENGL20051 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Dangerous Books | ENGL20023 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Drinking in the words: The pleasures and pains of alcohol in British fiction and culture | ENGL20127 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage | ENGL20206 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| The Author as Character | ENGL20048 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| The Radical Gothic | ENGL20136 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| American Short Stories | ENGL20138 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| American Avant Garde | ENGL20114 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-2 |
| Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News | ENGL20020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List F | |||||
| Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP as follows: any 20 CP from lists B or C; any Italian or Modern Languages unit from list D; any 20 CP from list E | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
| Diploma in Higher Education | 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 100 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).
