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 HISP30101 is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
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Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Students must choose one but no more than two units from the following list: | |||||
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
History of Latin America's Indigenous People | HISP30068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Imagining Other Worlds: Argentine Culture from 1940 to the Present | HISP30102 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Latin American Futurisms | HISP30103 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present) | HISP30100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture | HISP30084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students may choose up to two units from the following list (Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study): | |||||
Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures | MODL30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (follow-on) | MODL30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Follow-on Portuguese | MODL30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives | MODL30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
MODL30005 is mandatory for Single Honours Students | |||||
Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society | MODL30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives | MODL30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students must choose 60 credit points from the following units: | |||||
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Debates and Issues | POLI30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Justice between generations | POLI30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Political Economy of China | POLI30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
European Foreign Policy | POLI30014 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Europe in Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives | POLI30015 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Holocaust - History and Legacy | POLI30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
US Foreign Policy | POLI30017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Politics of Gender | POLI31351 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Politics of Post Apartheid South Africa | POLI31381 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Critical Security Studies | POLI31384 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Dissertation | POLI31555 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Peacebuilding: Theory and Practice | POLI31557 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
States and Markets | POLI31559 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Public Opinion and Democracy | SOCI30072 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Religion and Politics | SOCI30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy | POLI30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Politics of the Contemporary Labour Party | POLI30024 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Politics of Human Rights | POLI30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Power, Politics and Food | POLI30027 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Northern Ireland: conflict and resolution | POLI30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Gender and Security | POLI30032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Apocalypse or Ecotopia? | POLI30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Politics of Rebellion | POLI30038 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Philosopher Queens | POLI30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Politics and Spanish (BA) | 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 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).
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.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Politics and Spanish) (BA) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes