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?
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You must take at least 40cp of ENGL-coded units and at least 40cp of HIST-coded units | |||||
| List A – Take 20cp of HIST units and choose either ENGL20063 in this list or ENGL20064 in list D. | |||||
| Literature 1740-1900 | ENGL20063 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
| Africa in Global Perspective | HIST20141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Asia in Global Perspective | HIST20143 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| The Americas in Global Context | HIST20142 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| List B – Choose 20cp from list B, list E or list E2. If you take an ENGL unit from List B, you cannot also take an ENGL unit from List E2 | |||||
| Rethinking History | HIST23101 | 20 | Optional | A | 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 | |||||
| Shakespeare | ENGL20068 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
| Early Modern Women Writers | ENGL20139 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Fear and Loathing | HIST20117 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
| Outlaws | HIST20120 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
| The Tudor World | HIST20119 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Crusading Cultures | HIST20133 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List D - Take 20cp of HIST units and choose either ENGL20064 in this list or ENGL20063 in list A. | |||||
| Literature 1900-present | ENGL20064 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| The Politics of the Past | HIST20144 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| The Public Role of the Historian | HIST20145 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| List E – Choose 20cp from list E, list E2 or list B | |||||
| 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 |
| Health and Medicine in African History: Actors, Institutions, Ideas | HIST20147 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Under the Covers: Sex and Modern British Print Culture | HIST20138 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
| Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) | HIST26024 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States | HIST20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective | HIST20128 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages | HIST20132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List E2 – Choose 20cp from list E, list E2 or list B. If you take an ENGL unit from list E2, you cannot also take an ENGL unit from List B | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Choose 20CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty-wide units; OR choose an additional 20 CP from one of the lists above. | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
| Diploma of 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).
