Programme structure: Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Mandatory Unit HISP20105 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.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students take at least 80 CP of HISP-coded units
List A
Spanish Language 2 for Single Honours	HISP20105	20	Mandatory		TB-4
List B - Choose 20 CP from the list below
Women's Writing and Filmmaking in Latin America	HISP20108	20	Optional		TB-1
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History	HISP20119	20	Optional		TB-1
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain	HISP21309	20	Optional		TB-1
General Linguistics	MODL20016	20	Optional		TB-1
Woman and Nation	MODL23017	20	Optional		TB-1
List C - Choose 20 CP from the list below
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975	HISP20076	20	Optional		TB-1
Barcelona: Culture and Representations	HISP20117	20	Optional		TB-2
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World	HISP20118	20	Optional		TB-2
Catalan Language (Elementary)	MODL23014	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (Elementary)	MODL23015	20	Optional		TB-4
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages	MODL20021	20	Optional		TB-1
Beginners Portuguese	MODL20022	20	Optional		TB-4
Migrations of Culture	MODL20024	20	Optional		TB-1
List D - Choose 20 CP from the list below
Introduction to Latin American Cinema	HISP20114	20	Optional		TB-2
Structures and Varieties of Spanish	HISP20123	20	Optional		TB-2
List E - Choose 20 CP from the list below
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry	HISP20115	20	Optional		TB-2
Introduction to Spanish Peninsular literature since 1850	HISP20121	20	Optional		TB-2
Colonial Worlds: Latin America and the Caribbean, 1400-1900	HISP20122	20	Optional		TB-2
List F
20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists B-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).