Programme structure: Politics and Italian (BA) - what's running in 2020/21

Mandatory Unit ITAL20001 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
60 credit points from:
Rational Choice	POLI21203	20	Optional		TB-1
Development Studies	POLI21213	20	Optional		TB-2
Co-operation and Integration In Europe	POLI21214	20	Optional		TB-1
Modern British Government and Politics	POLI20014	20	Optional		TB-1
Democracy and US Government	POLI21226	20	Optional		TB-2
The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa	POLI21231	20	Optional		TB-2
Principles of Quantitative Social Science	SOCI20069	20	Optional		TB-1
Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data	POLI20001	20	Optional		TB-2
Contemporary Political Theory	POLI22202	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary International Relations	POLI20002	20	Optional		TB-1
Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia	POLI29008	20	Optional		TB-1
NGO Development & Practice	POLI20004	20	Optional		TB-2
Understanding Genocide	POLI20005	20	Optional		TB-1
The History of Western Political Thought	POLI20007	20	Optional		TB-2
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in South Asia	POLI20009	20	Optional		TB-1
Global Justice	POLI20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Comparative and International Political Economy	POLI20012	20	Optional		TB-1
Governing Through Insecurity: Institutions and Issues in Contemporary Security Governance	POLI20013	20	Optional		TB-2
Investigating the Political	POLI20015	20	Optional		TB-2
New Developments in International Relations Theory	POLI20016	20	Optional		TB-2
State and Non-State Violence in Latin America	POLI20017	20	Optional		TB-2
The Politics of the Environment	POLI20018	20	Optional		TB-2
Plus:
Italian Language 2	ITAL20001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least 20cp but no more than 40cp from the following list:
Italian Memories of the 2nd World War	ITAL20016	20	Optional		TB-1
Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration	ITAL20032	20	Optional		TB-1
Laughter in Medieval and Renaissance Italy	ITAL20043	20	Optional		TB-1
Dante's Inferno (TB2)	ITAL20035	20	Optional		TB-2
The Invention of the Renaissance Woman (TB2)	ITAL20036	20	Optional		TB-2
Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change (TB2)	ITAL20037	20	Optional		TB-2
Students may choose up to 40cp from the following list:
General Linguistics	MODL20016	20	Optional		TB-1
Women and Nation TB-2	MODL20023	20	Optional		TB-2
Students also have the option of taking a Teaching Block abroad as long as they meet all grade and other requirements set by SPAIS study abroad programme
Study Abroad (Term)	SPAI20030	60	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Diploma in Higher Education		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).