Programme structure: Music (BA) - what's running in 2021/22

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
You may not choose both units of any of the following pairs in any combination: a) MUSI30059 and MUSI30064; b) MUSI30060 and MUSI30065; c) MUSI30066 and MUSI30061
List A: choose one unit from the list below (Students must choose at least one (but no more than two) 40CP Extended Study units across lists A & E )
Extended Study: Composition Portfolio	MUSI30059	40	Optional		TB-4
Extended Study: Performance	MUSI30061	40	Optional		TB-4
Extended Study: Musicology	MUSI30058	40	Optional		TB-4
Extended Study: Studio	MUSI30060	40	Optional		TB-4
Aesthetics and Criticism	MUSI30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Accompaniment in Practice	MUSI30142	20	Optional		TB-4
Performance	MUSI30066	20	Optional		TB-4
Advanced Technical Studies	MUSI30113	20	Optional		TB-2
List B - Choose one unit from the list below: (If you have chosen a 40CP Extended Study unit in BOTH lists A & E, students are NOT required to choose a unit in one of the following lists: B, C or D)
Musicology Project 1	MUSI30063	20	Optional		TB-1
Aesthetics and Criticism	MUSI30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Composition Project	MUSI30064	20	Optional		TB-1
Studio Project	MUSI30065	20	Optional		TB-1
Art and Music in the Medieval West	MUSI30145	20	Optional		TB-1
Composing Live Electronics	MUSI30141	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - choose one unit from the list below: (If you have chosen a 40CP Extended Study unit in BOTH lists A & E, students are NOT required to choose a unit in one of the following lists: B, C or D)
Music recording and production	MUSI30132	20	Optional		TB-2
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI30107	20	Optional		TB-2
From Silent Films to YouTube: Opera on Screen	MUSI30144	20	Optional		TB-1
Music in National Cinemas	MUSI30143	20	Optional		TB-1
Music, Technology and Cultural Change, 1900 - present day	MUSI30124	20	Optional		TB-2
Art and Music in the Medieval West	MUSI30145	20	Optional		TB-1
Music and Migration in the 20th Century	MUSI30111	20	Optional		TB-2
List D - choose one unit from the list below: (If you have chosen a 40CP Extended Study unit in BOTH lists A & E, students are NOT required to choose a unit in one of the following lists: B, C or D)
Performance	MUSI30066	20	Optional		TB-4
Accompaniment in Practice	MUSI30142	20	Optional		TB-4
Advanced Technical Studies	MUSI30113	20	Optional		TB-2
List E - choose one unit from this list (Students must choose at least one (but no more than two) 40CP Extended Study units across lists A & E )
Extended Study: Musicology	MUSI30058	40	Optional		TB-4
Extended Study: Composition Portfolio	MUSI30059	40	Optional		TB-4
Extended Study: Studio	MUSI30060	40	Optional		TB-4
Extended Study: Performance	MUSI30061	40	Optional		TB-4
Music recording and production	MUSI30132	20	Optional		TB-2
Hip-hop Music and Culture	MUSI30107	20	Optional		TB-2
From Silent Films to YouTube: Opera on Screen	MUSI30144	20	Optional		TB-1
Music in National Cinemas	MUSI30143	20	Optional		TB-1
Music, Technology and Cultural Change, 1900 - present day	MUSI30124	20	Optional		TB-2
Music recording and production	MUSI30132	20	Optional		TB-2
Music and Migration in the 20th Century	MUSI30111	20	Optional		TB-2
List F - Choose EITHER 20 CP from University Language Wide Progamme (UWLP) units OR choose one additional 20 CP unit from lists A-E above.
If you have chosen a 40CP Extended Study unit in EITHER or BOTH lists A & E, you do NOT need to choose another unit from this list
Choose EITHER 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units plus an additional 20 CP from lists B, C and E above, OR choose one additional 20 CP unit from lists A-D above.	OPEN	20	Optional
Music (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

Subjects taken in year 2 may not be repeated in year 3.