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

You must take at least 40 CP from each subject

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students must take 40 CP Film units and 40 CP Theatre units
List A - Choose 20 CP from this list
Film History to 1960	FATV20011	20	Optional		TB-1
Performance Histories	THTR20010	20	Optional		TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list
Film Genre	FATV20002	20	Optional		TB-1
The Film Director's Vision	FATV20006	20	Optional		TB-1
Film and Television Audiences	FATV20008	20	Optional		TB-1
Television Drama History	FATV20024	20	Optional		TB-1
Melodrama	THTR20008	20	Optional		TB-1
Interpreting Plays	THTR20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Popular Performance	THTR20018	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose FATV20004 unless you choose FATV20011 in list A
British Cinema and Television	FATV20001	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
Screen Performance	FATV20003	20	Optional		TB-1
Applied Theatre	THTR20002	20	Optional		TB-2
Interpreting Plays	THTR20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation	THTR20012	20	Optional	C,E	TB-2
Early Modern Theatre Practice	THTR20013	20	Optional		TB-1
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list
Film and Television History, 1960 to the present	FATV20004	20	Optional		TB-2
Politics of Performance	THTR20005	20	Optional		TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Documentary Histories and Practices	FATV20009	20	Optional		TB-2
Animated Film	FATV20010	20	Optional		TB-2
Creative Technologies	FATV20021	20	Optional		TB-2
Film History to 1960	FATV20011	20	Optional		TB-1
Politics of Performance	THTR20005	20	Optional		TB-2
Early Modern Theatre Practice	THTR20013	20	Optional		TB-1
Interpreting Plays	THTR20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation	THTR20012	20	Optional	C,E	TB-2
List F
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above. However, you may not take THTR30017 in any combination with THTR30018.	OPEN	20	Optional
Diploma of 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).

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.