Programme structure: Politics and German (BA) - what's running in 2015/16

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
German Language 3	GERM30001	20	Mandatory	TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following:
Advances in Historical Linguistics	GERM32052	20	Optional	TB-1
Representing the Holocaust	GERM32054	20	Optional	TB-1
Precursors of Modernism: Heine, Buchner, Kleist	GERM30057	20	Optional	TB-1
Socialism and the Left in Germany Since 1848	GERM32059	20	Optional	TB-2
After The Wall: Remembering the GDR	GERM32060	20	Optional	TB-2
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional	TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional	TB-1
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language	MODL30013	20	Optional	TB-1
The Radical Right: Nationalism and Fascism in Europe (1870-1939)	MODL30003	20	Optional	TB-2
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional	TB-1
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change	MODL30015	20	Optional	TB-2
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:
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional	TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional	TB-4
Normally 60 credit points from:
The Contemporary British Parliament	POLI31336	20	Optional	TB-2
Post-Modern Political Theories	POLI31367	20	Optional	TB-2
The Fall of Old Labour	POLI31371	20	Optional	TB-1
New Labour and After	SPAI30019	20	Optional	TB-2
Dissertation	POLI31555	40	Optional	TB-4
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Debates and Issues	POLI30001	20	Optional	TB-2
Politics of the Environment	POLI31556	20	Optional	TB-2
States and Markets	POLI31559	20	Optional	TB-1
The Politics of Post Apartheid South Africa	POLI31381	20	Optional	TB-1
The Military in Everyday Life	POLI31382	20	Optional	TB-1
Democracy, Dictatorship and Post-Communism	POLI31383	20	Optional	TB-1
Critical Security Studies	POLI31384	20	Optional	TB-2
Public Opinion and Democracy	SPAI30008	20	Optional	TB-2
Religion and Politics in the West	SPAI30010	20	Optional	TB-2
Europe in Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives	SPAI30021	20	Optional	TB-2
European Foreign Policy	SPAI30022	20	Optional	TB-1
Dilemmas of a nuclear-armed world	SPAI30029	20	Optional	TB-2
Politics of the Environment	POLI31556	20	Optional	TB-2
Politics of Contemporary India	POLI31563	20	Optional	TB-1
Britain and the European Union	POLI31565	20	Optional	TB-1
US Foreign Policy	SPAI30002	20	Optional	TB-1
Politics and German (BA)		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).

Degree classifications:

• First Class Honours 70 and above
• Second Class Honours, First Division 60-69
• Second Class Honours, Second Division 50-59
• Third Class Honours 40-49
• Fail 39 and below

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.