This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning progression and completion are held in the University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional requirements.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
If you are selecting optional units, ensure that you have a balanced workload through the year.
Mandatory unit GERM30001 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 | Teaching Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Besides the mandatory German language unit, you must take at least one further GERM or MODL-coded unit. | ||||
| List A - Take the mandatory language unit. Additionally choose a further 20cp unit from list A or list F | ||||
| Medicine, magic and sex in early modern England and its colonies | HIST30141 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers | HIST30142 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Teenage Kicks: Youth and subcultures in Britain since 1918 | HIST30143 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Greed Is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America | HIST30144 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Dark Pasts: Modern Histories of Night in Britain and North America | HIST30145 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Red Power: American Indian activism since 1944 | HIST30146 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Histories of the Polar Regions | HIST30147 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Health on the Colour Line: Race and Medicine in America | HIST30149 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Rage against the machine: technology and anti-technology in modern Britain | HIST30150 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Indians on the Move: From Indenture to Independence | HIST30151 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Once Upon a Crime: Law and Popular Culture in the Age of Empires | HIST30152 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses | HIST30153 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Merchants, Mystics and the Marginalised: Societies in Motion in Early Modern South Asia | HIST30154 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| War, Plague, and Rebellion: England in the Fourteenth Century | HIST30156 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Iran, 1901-1979: Oil, Imperialism, and Decolonisation | HIST30160 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Aftermath: The Wake of War, 1945-1950 | HIST30161 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
| German Language 3 | GERM30001 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
| List C - Choose 20cp | ||||
| Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Follow-on Portuguese | MODL30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| War and Peace: Tolstoy’s Ethics in a European Context | MODL30042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| MODL30006 is available to students of German, Italian and Russian in TB-1 | ||||
| Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 |
| Memory | HIST30113 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Capitalism | HIST30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Race | HIST30117 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Sexualities | HIST30118 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Sustainability | HIST30159 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| List D - Choose 20cp | ||||
| Visibility Matters: Identity, Diversity, and Power in the Cultural Marketplace | GERM30081 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Horrible Histories And All That | HIST30119 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Global Empires | HIST30122 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Millennial Britain | HIST30125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Follow-on Portuguese | MODL30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| War and Peace: Tolstoy’s Ethics in a European Context | MODL30042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| List E | ||||
| Modern Languages and History Dissertation | MODL30025 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
| List F - Choose one unit from list A or list F | ||||
| Choose 20CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty-wide units | OPEN | 20 | Optional | |
| History and German (BA) | 120 | |||
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
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.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
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 100 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).
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.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (History and Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes
