Programme structure: Liberal Arts (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students take both of the following:
Ideas and Society	AFAC20002	20	Optional		TB-1
Experiencing the Aesthetic	AFAC20003	20	Optional		TB-2
Numeracy requirement - must take:
Arts in the Age of Data	AFAC20007	20	Optional		TB-1
Students take at least 40 credit points in their chosen pathway (see below) including 40 at level 5:
Anthropology Pathway- Mandatory Units;
Social Theories	ARCH20057	20	Optional		TB-2
Choose 20 credits of Anthropology Options
Anthropological Methods	ARCH20048	20	Optional		TB-1
Africa	ARCH20051	20	Optional		TB-1
Early Human Origins	ARCH20005	20	Optional		TB-1
The Anthropology of Gender and Childhood	ARCH20070	20	Optional		TB-2
Evolution and Human Behaviour	ARCH20058	20	Optional		TB-2
Britain AD	ARCH20068	20	Optional		TB-2
Lives on the move: Migration and Mobility from a Global Perspective	ARCH20066	20	Optional		TB-1
Anthropology and Contemporary Capitalism	ARCH20065	20	Optional		TB-1
Engaging with collections	ARCH20071	20	Optional		TB-2
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY PATHWAY OPTIONS - There are no specified mandatory units for this pathway. Students choose optional units from a defined list (which includes Latin and Ancient Greek units which fulfil the language requirement of the Liberal Arts programme.)
Exploring the Roman Cityscape	CLAS20070	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaches to Roman History	CLAS20040	20	Optional		TB-1
Myth	CLAS20065	20	Optional		TB-1
Legacy	CLAS20067	20	Optional		TB-2
Historical Topic: Roman Imperial Culture	CLAS20062	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level A1	CLAS20006	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level A1	CLAS20008	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level A2	CLAS20007	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level A2	CLAS20009	20	Optional		TB-2
Please note that students taking languages at level B and above must have the necessary pre-requisites. B1 is a prerequisite for B2. B2 is a prerequisite for a level C unit (either C1 or C2) in the same language, and a level C unit (C1 or C2) is a prerequisite for a level D unit in the same language.
Latin Language Level B1	CLAS22307	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level B1	CLAS22315	20	Optional		TB-1
Greek Language Level C1	CLAS22405	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level C1	CLAS22407	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin Language Level B2	CLAS22308	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level B2	CLAS22316	20	Optional		TB-2
Greek Language Level C2	CLAS22406	20	Optional		TB-2
Latin Language Level C2	CLAS22408	20	Optional		TB-2
English Pathway- Mandatory Units. One of the following;
Literature 1740-1900	ENGL20063	20	Optional		TB-1
or;
Literature 1900-present	ENGL20064	20	Optional		TB-2
And one of the 20 credit 'Special Subject' units below;
English Options;
Shakespeare	ENGL20068	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the City: London 1550-1740	ENGL20069	20	Optional		TB-1
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing	ENGL20031	20	Optional		TB-1
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World	ENGL20113	20	Optional	B	TB-1
American Avant Garde	ENGL20114	20	Optional		TB-1
Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature	ENGL20126	20	Optional		TB-1
Poetry of the 1960s	ENGL20032	20	Optional		TB-1
Revenge Tragedy	ENGL29008	20	Optional		TB-1
Rudyard Kipling	ENGL29004	20	Optional		TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English	ENGL20028	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Utopian Literature	ENGL20058	20	Optional		TB-1
Old English Language and Literature	ENGL20065	20	Optional		TB-2
Arthurian Literature	ENGL20060	20	Optional		TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians	ENGL20061	20	Optional		TB-2
The Art of Grief	ENGL20116	20	Optional		TB-2
Black British Literature	ENGL20041	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America	ENGL20019	20	Optional		TB-2
Dangerous Books	ENGL20023	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage	ENGL20206	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin	ENGL20054	20	Optional		TB-2
Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News	ENGL20020	20	Optional		TB-2
Writing the Working Classes	ENGL20030	20	Optional		TB-2
The Author as Character	ENGL20048	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry	ENGL20051	20	Optional		TB-2
Film Pathway- Mandatory Units;
Film History to 1960	FATV20011	20	Optional		TB-1
or;
Film and Television History, 1960 to the present	FATV20004	20	Optional		TB-2
20 credits from the 'options' list below;
Film Options;
The Film Director's Vision	FATV20006	20	Optional		TB-1
Film Genre	FATV20002	20	Optional		TB-1
Film and TV Comedy	FATV20005	20	Optional		TB-2
Experimental Film	FATV20016	20	Optional		TB-1
Short Fiction Film	FATV20022	20	Optional		TB-2
Hollywood Cinema History	FATV20007	20	Optional		TB-2
Documentary Histories and Practices	FATV20009	20	Optional		TB-2
History Pathway students should choose 40 credits from the below list of History Options;
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20	Optional		TB-1
Global History	HIST20112	20	Optional		TB-1
Outlaws	HIST20120	20	Optional		TB-1
The Tudor World	HIST20119	20	Optional		TB-1
Fear and Loathing	HIST20117	20	Optional		TB-1
History in Public	HIST20089	20	Optional		TB-2
Wild Things: Humans and other animals in History	HIST20115	20	Optional		TB-2
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008)	HIST20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Progress or Peril? The History of Science, Technology and Medicine	HIST20113	20	Optional		TB-2
Decolonisation	HIST20116	20	Optional	C	TB-2
Modern Art in the USA 1900-1939 (Lecture Response Unit)	HART20005	20	Optional		TB-1
Art in Britain (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HART20024	20	Optional		TB-1
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HART20026	20	Optional		TB-1
Race and Place	HART20031	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Curating the Object	HART20029	20	Optional	C	TB-2
Art and Music	HART20008	20	Optional		TB-2
Paris	HART20028	20	Optional		TB-2
Cold War Culture: Art and Politics since 1945 (Level I Special Field)	HART26001	20	Optional		TB-2
Students can only take 20 credits from the below units;
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement	HIST20122	20	Optional		TB-2
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States	HIST20129	20	Optional		TB-2
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers	HIST20036	20	Optional		TB-2
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages	HIST20132	20	Optional		TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London	HIST20099	20	Optional		TB-2
Early and Modern Paganism	HIST20121	20	Optional		TB-2
The Black Death in England	HIST20125	20	Optional		TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field)	HIST26010	20	Optional		TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective	HIST20128	20	Optional		TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field)	HIST26024	20	Optional		TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field)	HIST26008	20	Optional		TB-2
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field)	HIST26015	20	Optional		TB-2
How to Live Well: The Art of the Netherlands 1500-1700	HART20030	20	Optional		TB-2
Art and War (Level I Special Field)	HART20027	20	Optional		TB-2
French Pathway- Mandatory units;
French Language 2	FREN20001	20	Optional		TB-4
And 20 credits from the below list of French options;
French Drama	FREN20026	20	Optional		TB-1
France 1940-44: Occupation and Resistance	FREN20037	20	Optional		TB-1
The French Language: Structures and Varieties	FREN20044	20	Optional		TB-1
French Thought	FREN20068	20	Optional		TB-2
Francophone African Literature	FREN20069	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to French Cinema	FREN20056	20	Optional		TB-1
France and Europe	FREN23013	20	Optional		TB-2
German Pathway- Mandatory Units;
If GERM10009 was taken in Year 1;
German Language 2 (Post A-Level)	GERM20001	20	Optional		TB-4
Or; if GERM19003 was taken in year 1;
German Language post ab initio	GERM20032	20	Optional		TB-4
And 20 credits from the following German Options;
Transnational Nation: Germany 1840 - 1990	GERM20047	20	Optional		TB-2
Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840	GERM20044	20	Optional		TB-2
The Cultural and Creative Industries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland	GERM20052	20	Optional		TB-2
The Cultural and Creative Industries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland	GERM20052	20	Optional		TB-2
Effi Briest and her Afterlives	GERM20048	20	Optional		TB-1
Inventing Austria	GERM20051	20	Optional		TB-1
Spanish Pathway- Mandatory Units;
Spanish Language	HISP20101	20	Optional		TB-4
And 20 credits from Spanish Options;
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry	HISP20115	20	Optional		TB-2
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975	HISP20076	20	Optional		TB-1
Barcelona: Culture and Representations	HISP20117	20	Optional		TB-2
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula	HISP20088	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Latin American Cinema	HISP20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain	HISP21309	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History	HISP20119	20	Optional		TB-1
Portuguese Pathway- Mandatory Units;
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML	HISP20302	20	Optional		TB-4
And 20 credits from Portuguese Options;
Images of Power in Lusophone Culture	HISP20092	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History	HISP20119	20	Optional		TB-1
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula	HISP20088	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Latin American Cinema	HISP20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Migration and Movement: Cultural Exchange in the Lusophone World, 19th to 20th Centuries	HISP20099	20	Optional		TB-2
Russian Pathway- Mandatory Units;
Russian Language 2	RUSS20008	20	Optional		TB-4
And 20 credits from Russian Options;
Hedgehogs and Foxes: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel	RUSS20068	20	Optional		TB-1
Revolutionary Russia, 1881-1917	RUSS20066	20	Optional		TB-1
Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Culture and Politics 1917 - 1941	RUSS20060	20	Optional		TB-2
Music Pathway students should pick 40 credits from the below options;
Performance	MUSI20058	20	Optional		TB-4
Further Technical Studies	MUSI20099	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaches to Music History I	MUSI20142	20	Optional		TB-1
Approaches to Music History II	MUSI20143	20	Optional		TB-2
Compositional Strategy	MUSI20047	20	Optional		TB-2
Music, Technology and Cultural Change, 1900 - present day	MUSI20117	20	Optional		TB-2
Music in National Cinemas	MUSI20127	20	Optional		TB-1
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI20071	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy Pathway students should take 40 credit form Philosophy options;
Realism and Normativity	PHIL20046	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mind	PHIL20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Texts in Modern European Philosophy 1	PHIL20050	20	Optional		TB-1
Ethics	PHIL20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Philosophy of Mathematics	PHIL20039	20	Optional		TB-2
Ancient Philosophy	PHIL20040	20	Optional		TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL20049	20	Optional		TB-2
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL20053	20	Optional		TB-2
What is democracy, and how should it work?	PHIL20057	20	Optional		TB-2
Religion and Theology Pathway- Mandatory units;
Religion: Contexts and Perspectives	THRS20214	20	Optional	A	TB-1
Or;
Religion: Practices and Ideas	THRS20215	20	Optional	D	TB-2
And 20 credits from Religion and Theology Options;
Religion and Material Culture	THRS20096	20	Optional		TB-1
Japanese Religions: Practices and Beliefs	THRS20220	20	Optional		TB-1
Magic and the Abrahamic Religions	THRS20222	20	Optional	B,C	TB-1
Philosophical Approaches to Religious Experience and Mysticism	THRS20218	20	Optional		TB-1
The Philosophy of Religion	THRS20102	20	Optional		TB-2
The Thought of John Calvin	THRS20197	20	Optional		TB-2
The Body, Gender and Religion	THRS20192	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Sanskrit 1	THRS20188	20	Optional		TB-1
THEATRE PATHWAY - must take one of:
Performance Histories	THTR20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Politics of Performance	THTR20005	20	Optional		TB-2
Should students have credit points available once they have selected their pathway units, then they may use these remaining credits to take optional units (within the Faculty of Arts) or may take Open Units (not totalling more than 20 credits) outside the Faculty of Arts.
Students are also able to select one of the 20 credit point MODL units. NB- You do not need to be on a language pathway, but it is worth discussing any MODL options with SML before making a final unit selection
General Linguistics	MODL20016	20	Optional		TB-1
Historical Linguistics	MODL20017	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages	MODL20021	20	Optional		TB-1
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-1
Undergraduate Diploma		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).

Additional progress information

Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.