Programme structure: English and Philosophy (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
You must take at least 40 CP of English and at least 40 CP of Philosophy units
List A - Take the Philosophy unit and choose 20 CP in English from list A or list D
Literature 1740-1900	ENGL20063	20	Optional		TB-1
Realism and Normativity	PHIL20046	20	Mandatory		TB-1
List B - Choose 20 CP from this list unless you take 40 CP in list A. If you choose an ENGL unit from List B, you can not also take an ENGL unit from List E2.
African American Literature	ENGL20111	20	Optional		TB-1
American Literature: 1945 to Present	ENGL29007	20	Optional		TB-1
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World	ENGL20113	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present	ENGL20129	20	Optional		TB-1
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception	ENGL29032	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Poetry of the 1960s	ENGL20032	20	Optional		TB-1
Revenge Tragedy	ENGL29008	20	Optional		TB-1
Rudyard Kipling	ENGL29004	20	Optional		TB-1
The Fairy Tale in English	ENGL20028	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Philosophy of Language	PHIL20017	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mind	PHIL20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Political Philosophy	PHIL20012	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP
Shakespeare	ENGL20068	20	Optional		TB-1
Writing the City: London 1550-1740	ENGL20069	20	Optional		TB-1
Philosophy of Mind	PHIL20010	20	Optional		TB-1
Classical Chinese Philosophy	PHIL20061	20	Optional		TB-1
Beyond Humanity	PHIL20063	20	Optional		TB-1
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL20053	20	Optional		TB-2
List D - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list B. You must choose ENGL20064 from this list if you take only 20 CP in list A.
Literature 1900-present	ENGL20064	20	Optional		TB-2
Death, dying and disease	PHIL20049	20	Optional		TB-2
Themes in Modern European Philosophy 1	PHIL20051	20	Optional		TB-2
Aesthetics	PHIL20136	20	Optional	D,E	TB-2
Beyond Humanity	PHIL20063	20	Optional		TB-1
List E - Choose 20 CP from this list
Arthurian Literature	ENGL20060	20	Optional		TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians	ENGL20061	20	Optional		TB-2
Old English Language and Literature	ENGL20065	20	Optional		TB-2
Ethics	PHIL20011	20	Optional		TB-2
Space, Time and Matter	PHIL20053	20	Optional		TB-2
Themes in Modern European Philosophy 1	PHIL20051	20	Optional		TB-2
Ancient Philosophy	PHIL20040	20	Optional		TB-2
Aesthetics	PHIL20136	20	Optional	D,E	TB-2
List E2 - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list F. If you select an ENGL unit from List E2, you cannot also take an ENGL unit from List B.
Black British Literature	ENGL20041	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Creative Writing: Poetry	ENGL20051	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Dangerous Books	ENGL20023	20	Optional		TB-2
Drinking in the words: The pleasures and pains of alcohol in British fiction and culture	ENGL20127	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage	ENGL20206	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Large, Loose, Baggy Monsters: Victorian Fiction and Novel Form	ENGL20128	20	Optional		TB-2
The Author as Character	ENGL20048	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Writing the Working Classes	ENGL20030	20	Optional		TB-2
The Art of Grief	ENGL20116	20	Optional		TB-2
The Radical Gothic	ENGL20136	20	Optional	E	TB-2
List F - Choose 20 CP from this list or from list E2
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above	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.