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

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
You must take at least 40 CP of English and at least 40 CP of Philosophy units
List A - Choose one ENGL and one PHIL unit from this list
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace	ENGL30117	20	Optional		TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction	ENGL30115	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophical Issues of Physical Sciences	PHIL30052	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy and the Environment	PHIL30112	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Philosophy of Science	PHIL30049	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Biology	PHIL30063	20	Optional		TB-1
Evil, Deviance, and Crime	PHIL30127	20	Optional		TB-2
Virtue and Well-Being	PHIL30126	20	Optional		TB-1
The Philosophy and History of Medicine	PHIL30082	20	Optional		TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list
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
Kings, Queens, and Sycophants	ENGL30131	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature's Children	ENGL39015	20	Optional		TB-1
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism	ENGL39027	20	Optional		TB-1
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Twentieth-Century Women Writers	ENGL30105	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing for Art	ENGL39019	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography	ENGL30107	20	Optional		TB-2
The Public Role of the Humanities	HUMS30001	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Psychology	PHIL30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL30115	20	Optional		TB-2
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2	PHIL30116	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list, list E2 or list F
Postcolonial Environments	ENGL30122	20	Optional		TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional		TB-1
American Revolutions	ENGL30108	20	Optional		TB-1
Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies	ENGL30111	20	Optional		TB-1
Postcolonial Environments	ENGL30122	20	Optional		TB-2
The History of the Language of English Literature	ENGL30123	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present	ENGL30124	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Science	PHIL30049	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Psychology	PHIL30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Biology	PHIL30063	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy and the Environment	PHIL30112	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics	ENGL30110	20	Optional		TB-2
Literatures of Enslavement	ENGL30133	20	Optional		TB-2
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 2	PHIL30116	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Psychology	PHIL30077	20	Optional		TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL30115	20	Optional		TB-2
Evil, Deviance, and Crime	PHIL30127	20	Optional		TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Dissertation (English)	ENGL39024	20	Optional	B,E	TB-2
Second Extended Essay	PHIL30108	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list, list C or list F
James Joyce	ENGL30045	20	Optional		TB-1
Illness Narratives	ENGL30089	20	Optional		TB-1
Literature and Medicine	ENGL39011	20	Optional		TB-2
Kings, Queens, and Sycophants	ENGL30131	20	Optional		TB-2
Postcolonial Environments	ENGL30122	20	Optional		TB-2
Rewriting the Bible	ENGL30129	20	Optional		TB-2
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing	ENGL30058	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 from this list, list C 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	OPEN	20	Optional
Students may not take PHIL30115 if they have already taken PHIL20049
English and Philosophy (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.