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Programme structure: English and Italian (BA) - what's running in 2024/25

Please note: Programme and unit information may change as the relevant academic field develops. We may also make changes to the structure of programmes and assessments to improve the student experience.

Mandatory unit Italian Language is Must Pass. For the definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Besides the mandatory dissertation MODL30029, you must also take 40cp of ITAL-coded units including the mandatory 20cp language unitITAL30001.
List A - Take the mandatory language unit. Additionally choose a further 20cp unit from list A, list E2 or list F
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace ENGL30117 20 Optional A TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction ENGL30115 20 Optional TB-1
Italian Language 3 ITAL30001 20 Mandatory A TB-4
List C - Choose 20 CP from this list
Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema ITAL30046 20 Optional B,C TB-1
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) ITAL30055 20 Optional TB-2
Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso ITAL30059 20 Optional C,E TB-2
Translating in a Professional Context MODL30010 20 Optional C 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
American Revolutions ENGL30108 20 Optional A TB-1
Literatures of Decolonisation ENGL30147 20 Optional C TB-1
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list
Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) ITAL30055 20 Optional TB-2
Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching MODL30036 20 Optional D TB-2
Studying and Making Early Printed Books  MODL30040 20 Optional TB-2
Transnational Narrative in pre-modern cultures  MODL30041 20 Optional TB-2
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics ENGL30110 20 Optional D TB-2
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation ENGL30142 20 Optional D TB-2
List E
Modern Languages and English Dissertation MODL30029 40 Mandatory TB-4
List E2 - Choose 20cp from this list or from list F unless you take 40cp in list A
Literature and Medicine ENGL39011 20 Optional TB-2
Modernist Writers ENGL30140 20 Optional TB-2
Victorian Poetry: Belief, Doubt, and Dissent ENGL30143 20 Optional E TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present ENGL30124 20 Optional B,E TB-1,TB-2
Writing for Art ENGL39019 20 Optional TB-2
Victorian Materialities ENGL30079 20 Optional E TB-2
Medievalism in the Modern Age ENGL30150 20 Optional E TB-2
Caribbean Literature ENGL30148 20 Optional E TB-2
Modernism and the Movies ENGL30128 20 Optional E TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography ENGL30107 20 Optional E TB-2
List F - Choose 20cp from this list or list E2 unless you take 40cp in list A
Take 20 cp From UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR you may choose an additional option unit from list A-E. OPEN 20 Optional
English and Italian (BA)   120      

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level 4, 5 & 6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level 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 100 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 100 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

The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (English and Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes

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