Programme structure: Comparative Literatures and Cultures and Spanish (BA) for 2021/22 entry cohort

Mandatory Unit Spanish Language HISP30101 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
Students must take at least 40cps of HISP-coded units: these will include the mandatory language requirement
List A
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees	HISP30101	20	Mandatory		TB-4
Comparative Literature Independent Research Project	MODL30033	40	Mandatory		TB-4
List B: Choose 20 CP from either list B or list D
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca	HISP30029	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Indigenous Histories in Latin America	HISP30106	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds	HISP30070	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World	HISP30098	20	Optional	B	TB-1
The Novels of Carmen Laforet	HISP31026	20	Optional		TB-1
Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions	FREN30030	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean	FREN30106	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional	E	TB-2
List C: Take 20 CP from this list
Spanish for Business	HISP30057	20	Optional		TB-4
Nation and Empire in Writing and Visual Culture in Spain (1874-Present)	HISP30100	20	Optional		TB-2
Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture	FREN30040	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean	FREN30106	20	Optional	E	TB-2
List D: Choose 20 CP from either list D or list B
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture	HISP30084	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture	FREN30040	20	Optional	D	TB-2
List E: Take 20 CP from this list
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds	HISP30070	20	Optional	B	TB-1
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change	MODL30015	20	Optional		TB-2
Gender, Sexuality and Cinema	MODL30018	20	Optional	E	TB-2
Comparative Literatures and Cultures and Spanish (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

The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Comparative Literatures and Cultures and Spanish) (BA) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes