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

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students must take 40 CP Film units and 40 CP Portuguese units
List A – Take 40 CP from this list, including 20CP Film units and 20 CP Language units
Television: Ideas and Industry	FATV30020	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary World Cinemas	FATV30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees	HISP30302	20	Mandatory		TB-4
List B – Choose one unit
Film Criticism	FATV30006	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	FATV30011	20	Optional		TB-1
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds	HISP30070	20	Optional		TB-1
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures	MODL30020	20	Optional		TB-1
List C – Choose 20 CP
Global Cinemas / Local Stories	FATV30005	20	Optional		TB-1
Digital Filmmaking	FATV30007	20	Optional		TB-1
Character Animation	FATV30021	20	Optional		TB-1
Hispanic Sociolinguistics	HISP30056	20	Optional		TB-1
Images and Text: Hybrid Media and Power in Latin America	HISP30086	20	Optional		TB-1
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
Follow-on Portuguese	MODL30037	20	Optional		TB-4
Multi- and Plurilingualism: Language Policies across Europe and Beyond	MODL30038	20	Optional		TB-1
List D – Choose 20 CP
Industrial Placement	FATV30008	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Film	FATV30018	20	Optional		TB-2
Practical Project	FATV30009	20	Optional		TB-2
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries	HISP30058	20	Optional		TB-2
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives	MODL30026	20	Optional		TB-2
The Cultural heritage of Historic Towns and Cities in Europe and Beyond	MODL30027	20	Optional		TB-2
List E – Choose 20 CP
Written Dissertation	FATV30012	20	Optional		TB-2
Industry Study	FATV30004	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Television Drama	FATV30022	20	Optional		TB-2
MODL30005 is mandatory for Single Honours Students
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional		TB-4
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema	MODL30018	20	Optional		TB-2
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives	MODL30026	20	Optional		TB-2
Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching	MODL30036	20	Optional		TB-2
List F
Choose 20 CP from Bristol Futures/UWLP/Faculty-wide units or another Modern Languages unit from List B or C, or another unit of any type from List D	OPEN	20	Optional
Film and Portuguese (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.