Programme structure: Drama and German (BA) - what's running in 2014/15

Mandatory Year Abroad 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
German Language 3	GERM30001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following:
Current Topics in Modern Sociolinguistics	GERM30047	20	Optional		TB-2
Advances in Historical Linguistics	GERM32052	20	Optional		TB-1
Culture of Classical Weimar	GERM32053	20	Optional		TB-1
Precursors of Modernism: Heine, Buchner, Kleist	GERM30057	20	Optional		TB-1
After The Wall: Remembering the GDR	GERM32060	20	Optional		TB-2
One of the following:
Extended Essay	DRAM33122	20	Optional		TB-1
Independent Study 1	DRAM33123	20	Optional		TB-2
40 credit points of optional Drama units:
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	DRAM33127	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary British Theatre	DRAM30053	20	Optional		TB-1
Devised Performance	DRAM33124	20	Optional		TB-1
Film Criticism	DRAM33128	20	Optional		TB-1
Global Cinemas / Local Stories	DRAM33131	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Independent Study 1	MODL30005	20	Optional		TB-4
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language	MODL30013	20	Optional		TB-1
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-2
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study:
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional		TB-4
Drama and German (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.

Additional progress information

German units: Special penalties apply for failures in language papers. An oral distinction may be awarded.