Programme structure: English (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
List A
Literature 1740-1900	ENGL20063	20	Mandatory		TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World	ENGL20113	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing	ENGL20031	20	Optional		TB-1
Poetry of the 1960s	ENGL20032	20	Optional		TB-1
Revenge Tragedy	ENGL29008	20	Optional		TB-1
Rudyard Kipling	ENGL29004	20	Optional		TB-1
Performance Histories	THTR20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Politics of Performance	THTR20005	20	Optional		TB-2
American Avant Garde	ENGL20114	20	Optional		TB-1
Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature	ENGL20126	20	Optional		TB-1
Rudyard Kipling	ENGL29004	20	Optional		TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English	ENGL20028	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Utopian Literature	ENGL20058	20	Optional		TB-1
For students who take the optional unit HUMS20002 from this list, this replaces all the Year 2 units in TB1. This includes units that are normally mandatory in this programme.
Study Abroad/ Erasmus	HUMS20002	60	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
List C - Choose 20 CP
Writing the City: London 1550-1740	ENGL20069	20	Optional		TB-1
Shakespeare	ENGL20068	20	Optional		TB-1
List D
Literature 1900-present	ENGL20064	20	Mandatory		TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP
Arthurian Literature	ENGL20060	20	Optional		TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians	ENGL20061	20	Optional		TB-2
Old English Language and Literature	ENGL20065	20	Optional		TB-2
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list F
American Avant Garde	ENGL20114	20	Optional		TB-1
Black British Literature	ENGL20041	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America	ENGL20019	20	Optional		TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry	ENGL20051	20	Optional		TB-2
Dangerous Books	ENGL20023	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage	ENGL20206	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News	ENGL20020	20	Optional		TB-2
Rudyard Kipling	ENGL29004	20	Optional		TB-1
The Author as Character	ENGL20048	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Working Classes	ENGL20030	20	Optional		TB-2
The Art of Grief	ENGL20116	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin	ENGL20054	20	Optional		TB-2
The Author as Character	ENGL20048	20	Optional	E	TB-2
For students who take the optional unit HUMS20002 from this list, this replaces all the Year 2 units in TB2 This includes units that are normally mandatory in this programme.
Study Abroad/ Erasmus	HUMS20002	60	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
You may additionally take MODL20018 in TB1 in combination with HUMS20002 If you choose this combination you will be taking 130 CP in total.
Foreign Language Skills for Semester Abroad Students	MODL20018	10	Optional	F	TB-1
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list E2
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units - OR choose 20 CP from list E2 above	OPEN	20	Optional
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

Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in section 29 of the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.