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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All students take the mandatory ‘Independent Research Project’ for 40 credit points (CP). If you are a Single Honours student, you must take at least 40 further credits in your chosen language area; if you are a Joint Honours student, you must take at least 40CP in each of your language areas (this accreditation can include the Research Project). | |||||
| Modern Language Studies Independent Research Project | MODL30039 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| You may select up to 40CP from the optional list below. | |||||
| French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-4 |
| Russian Language 3 | RUSS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| You may select up to 80CP (four optional units) from the lists below. Up to 40CP of these may be MODL-coded units. You can only select FREN30047 if you have chosen FREN30001 above; and you can only select HISP30057 if you have chosen HISP30101 above. | |||||
| Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France | FREN30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Francophone Identities in the Visual Arts | FREN30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Propaganda, Politics, and the Islamic Other: Literary Responses to the Crusades | FREN30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Revolutions in Fiction: Romanticism and Realism under the July Monarchy | FREN30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Culture, soft power and diplomatie d'influence: Exporting French culture from the 1870s to the present | FREN30133 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Transnational Encounters in the Francophone World | FREN30134 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Language Variation and Change in German | GERM30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Performing Germany: National Identity in Changing Times | GERM30075 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Die Mitte: Centrist German Politics and its Language | GERM30079 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Naples: Culture, Identity and Nation | ITAL30045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Boccaccio's Decameron | ITAL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Contemporary Latin American History | HISP30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture | HISP30084 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
| Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Political Comedy, Social Tragedy: Protest and Conflict in Spain, 1875-1923. | HISP30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present) | HISP30100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Imagining Other Worlds: Argentine Culture from 1940 to the Present | HISP30102 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Intermedia Encounters in Poetry | HISP30104 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Brazilian Backlands, Universal Borders | HISP30105 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Dostoevsky (TB2) | RUSS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Decadence, Decay and Rebirth: Russian & Czech Literature, 1870 - 1914 | RUSS30084 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| You may only select MODL30006 Liaison Interpreting, MODL30010 Translating in a Professional Context or MODL30036 Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching if you have elected to continue with the 20cp core language unit(s). You can only select MODL30011, MODL30012 or MODL30037 if you took the pre-requisite unit in year 2 (MODL23014, MODL23015 or MODL20022). | |||||
| Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
| Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Czech Language (follow-on) | MODL30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society | MODL30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching | MODL30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Follow-on Portuguese | MODL30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| Modern Language Studies (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.
