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?
Take at least 40 CP in each subject
Mandatory Unit FREN30001 is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
| Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Faculty of Arts Category | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students must take 40 CP Film units and 40 CP French 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 | |
| Film Festivals | FATV30023 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| French Language 3 | FREN30001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
| List B - Choose one unit | |||||
| Film Criticism | FATV30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FATV30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Approaching Video Games | FATV30024 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Political Cultures of Early Twentieth-Century France | FREN30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Francophone Identities in the Visual Arts | FREN30099 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Culture, soft power and diplomatie d'influence: Exporting French culture from the 1870s to the present | FREN30133 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
| Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| List C - Choose 20 CP | |||||
| Global Cinemas / Local Stories | FATV30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Political Film | FATV30018 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Character Animation | FATV30021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
| Industrial Placement | FATV30008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Contemporary Television Drama | FATV30022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
| 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 | |
| Transnational Encounters in the Francophone World | FREN30134 | 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 | |
| Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
| List D - Choose 20 CP | |||||
| Practical Project | FATV30009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Screenwriting: From Idea to Pitch | FATV30025 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Industry Study | FATV30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Revolutions in Fiction: Romanticism and Realism under the July Monarchy | FREN30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Studying and Making Early Printed Books | MODL30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Transnational Narrative in pre-modern cultures | MODL30041 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| List E - Choose 20 CP | |||||
| Written Dissertation | FATV30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| Industry Study | FATV30004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
| MODL30005 is mandatory for Single Honours Students | |||||
| Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 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 | |
| List F - Choose 20 CP | |||||
| Choose 20 CP from Bristol Futures/UWLP/Faculty wide Units or another Modern Languages unit from lists B or C above or another unit of any type from List D | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
| Film and French (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.
An oral distinction may be awarded.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes
