Programme structure: French and Russian (BA) - what's running in 2015/16

Mandatory Units French Language 2 and Russian Language 2 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
French Language 2	FREN20001	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
French Novel	FREN20023	20	Optional		TB-1
French Drama	FREN20026	20	Optional		TB-1
France 1940-44: Occupation and Resistance	FREN20037	20	Optional		TB-2
French Cinema: Aesthetics, Genres and Histories	FREN20020	20	Optional		TB-1
Race in France: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives	FREN20038	20	Optional		TB-2
Modern French Narrative	FREN20039	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Medieval Literature	FREN20042	20	Optional		TB-2
The Third Republic: France 1870 - 1940	FREN20036	20	Optional		TB-1
Paris 1857-1897	FREN20041	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Francophone African Literature	FREN20043	20	Optional		TB-1
The French Language: Structures and Varieties	FREN20044	20	Optional		TB-1
France and Europe	FREN23013	20	Optional		TB-2
Plus
Russian Language 2	RUSS20008	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list:
The New Soviet Man and His 'Others': Politics and Identity in Soviet Russia, 1917-1945	RUSS20010	20	Optional		TB-2
‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019	RUSS20013	20	Optional		TB-2
Russian Thought 1825-1881	RUSS20048	20	Optional		TB-1
Intermediate Czech Language	RUSS20043	20	Optional		TB-4
Russian Orthodox Culture	RUSS20044	20	Optional		TB-1
Laughter Through Tears: The Comic Tradition in Russian Literature	RUSS20049	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Political Systems of Modern Europe	MODL20008	20	Optional		TB-2
Memory and History in the Twentieth Century	MODL20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Linguistics	MODL23013	20	Optional		TB-1
World Cinemas: from national to transnational	MODL23016	20	Optional		TB-2
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe	MODL20011	20	Optional		TB-1
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list:
Catalan Language (Elementary)	MODL23014	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary)	MODL23015	20	Optional		TB-4
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).