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Programme structure: History of Art and French (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Mandatory Unit French 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
Students must take at least 40CP of French or Modern Language units and at least 40 CP of History of Art units
List A
French Language 2 FREN20001 20 Mandatory TB-4
Theorising the Object HART20035 20 Mandatory TB-1
List B - Choose 20CP from either list B or list D
French Drama FREN20026 20 Optional TB-1
Algeria and France: Memory and Migration in Text and Image FREN20059 20 Optional TB-1
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in Twenty-First Century France: Cultural Production, Politics, and Identity FREN20072 20 Optional TB-2
Art in Britain (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HART20024 20 Optional TB-1
Modern European Art HART20036 20 Optional TB-1
Art and Empire HART20038 20 Optional B TB-1
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HART20026 20 Optional B TB-1
List C - Choose 20CP from this list
Introduction to French Cinema FREN20056 20 Optional TB-1
French Thought FREN20068 20 Optional TB-2
Women and Gender in Medieval French Literature (1150-1450) FREN20071 20 Optional TB-1
Curating the Object HART20029 20 Optional C TB-2
List D - Choose 20CP from either list D or list B
French Fiction: from Realism to the 21st Century FREN20048 20 Optional TB-2
Francophone African Literature FREN20069 20 Optional TB-2
France during the Second World War: culture, politics and society  FREN20070 20 Optional TB-2
Race and Place HART20031 20 Optional D TB-2
Queering the Early Modern HART20041 20 Optional D TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
French Fiction: from Realism to the 21st Century FREN20048 20 Optional TB-2
France in Ferment 1870-1940 FREN20063 20 Optional TB-2
Art and Music HART20008 20 Optional TB-2
Early Italian Art HART20009 20 Optional TB-2
Cold War Culture: Art and Politics since 1945 (Level I Special Field) HART26001 20 Optional TB-2
How to Live Well: The Art of the Netherlands 1500-1700 HART20030 20 Optional E 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 French or Modern Languages unit from list D; any 20 CP from list E 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 the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

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