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 |
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You must take at least 40 CP in English units and at least 40 CP in Film and Television units | |||||
List A - Take 40 CP from this list, including mandatory Film & Television option | |||||
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace | ENGL30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction | ENGL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Television: Ideas and Industry | FATV30020 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary World Cinemas | FATV30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film Festivals | FATV30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list - and include the new 40 CP FATV Written Dissertation unit | |||||
Contemporary Literature and Science | ENGL30049 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature | ENGL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Illness Narratives | ENGL30089 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
James Joyce | ENGL30045 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernism and the Movies | ENGL30128 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literature's Children | ENGL39015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Representing HIV/AIDS | ENGL30141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism | ENGL39027 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing | ENGL30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Film Criticism | FATV30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FATV30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list | |||||
American Revolutions | ENGL30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Literatures of Decolonisation | ENGL30147 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Global Cinemas / Local Stories | FATV30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Digital Filmmaking | FATV30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Character Animation | FATV30021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list | |||||
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics | ENGL30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation | ENGL30142 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Industrial Placement | FATV30008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Political Film | FATV30018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Practical Project | FATV30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Industry Study | FATV30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list - unless you choose the new 40 CP FATV30002 Written Dissertation unit in list B | |||||
Creative Writing Dissertation | ENGL30126 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Dissertation | ENGL30112 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Dissertation (English) | ENGL39024 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-2 |
Written Dissertation | FATV30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Industry Study | FATV30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Contemporary Television Drama | FATV30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or list F | |||||
Charles Dickens | ENGL39020 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature and Medicine | ENGL39011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Modernist Writers | ENGL30140 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Rewriting the Bible | ENGL30129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas | ENGL30145 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The History of the Language of English Literature | ENGL30123 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present | ENGL30124 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing for Art | ENGL39019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography | ENGL30107 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or list E2 | |||||
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above (but do not choose DRAM30036 and 40 CP FATV30002 dissertation in list B) | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Film and English (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.