Programme structure: History with Innovation (MArts) - what's running in 2020/21

This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type III: Professional in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

Students must achieve a year mark of 50 or more out of a hundred at the end of the second year to be able to progress on to the four year programme.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Global History	HIST20112	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Past, Present and Futures	INOV20001	10	Mandatory		TB-2
Transdisciplinary Group Project 2: Solving Someone's Problem	INOV20002	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Choose one 20 CP from the following list:
Fear and Loathing	HIST20117	20	Optional		TB-1
Outlaws	HIST20120	20	Optional		TB-1
The Tudor World	HIST20119	20	Optional		TB-1
Choose one 20 CP from the following list:
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers	HIST20036	20	Optional		TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London	HIST20099	20	Optional		TB-2
Early and Modern Paganism	HIST20121	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field)	HIST26015	20	Optional		TB-2
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement	HIST20122	20	Optional		TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field)	HIST26024	20	Optional		TB-2
The American Civil War	HIST20123	20	Optional		TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field)	HIST26010	20	Optional		TB-2
Global Development	HIST20126	20	Optional		TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective	HIST20128	20	Optional		TB-2
The Norman Conquest	HIST20127	20	Optional		TB-2
Decolonisation	HIST20116	20	Optional	C	TB-2
Progress or Peril? The History of Science, Technology and Medicine	HIST20113	20	Optional		TB-2
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008)	HIST20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Wild Things: Humans and other animals in History	HIST20115	20	Optional		TB-2
Options to the value of 10cp (or up to 20cp if selecting open units such as a Language) from the following:
Open units up to a maximum of 20 CP	OPEN	20	Optional
Introduction to Computer Programming	EMAT10007	10	Optional		TB-1
Diploma of Higher Education		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).

Additional progress information

Whilst students may take up to 20cp of open units such as a language, please note this will take them to 130cp total for their second year