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 Units ITAL30001 and HISP30101 are 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You may take up to two MODL-coded units from lists B-D. You must take at least 40 CP in each language studied within the degree programme. MODL30005 may count towards the 40 CP requirement in one language where a dissertation is based in the study of that language | ||||
| List A: Mandatory Units. Students must take 40 CP in each language studied within the degree programme. | ||||
| Italian Language 3 | ITAL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees | HISP30101 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| List B: Cultural Optional units - select at least one unit from this list but no more than two. | ||||
| Screening the Past: Representing History in Contemporary Italian Cinema | ITAL30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca | HISP30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance | HISP30092 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Black and Indigenous Religions in the Early Modern Iberian World | HISP30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Indigenous Histories in Latin America | HISP30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| List C: MODL and vocational units. You are only permitted to select a unit from this list if you have selected only one unit from list B. | ||||
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| 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 |
| List D Cultural Options - Select at least one but no more than two units from this list. | ||||
| Institutions and Anti-Institutions in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s (TB2) | ITAL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso | ITAL30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 | HISP30076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Sports and Societies in South America | HISP30108 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Afterlives of Empire in Spanish Written and Visual Cultures | HISP30109 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Intermedia Encounters in 20th Century American Art | HISP30110 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Novels of Carmen Laforet | HISP31026 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| List E: MODL and vocational units. You are only permitted to select a unit from this list if you have selected only one unit from list D. | ||||
| Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change | MODL30015 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Theoretical Approaches to Language Teaching | MODL30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Studying and Making Early Printed Books | MODL30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| MODL30005 available for German, Italian or Russian topics only. | ||||
| Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
| MODL30006 available for French and Spanish in TB-2 only. | ||||
| Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 |
| List F: Contextual units. Select one unit from this list or an additional unit from lists B-E above. | ||||
| Les Miserables: Readings and Receptions | FREN30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Me, Myself, and I: The Essais of Michel de Montaigne | FREN30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Francophone Women Directors: Documentary Filmmaking | FREN30111 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| The Alchemy of Influence: Imitation, Translation, and Creativity | FREN30131 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Language Variation and Change in German | GERM30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
| Dostoevsky (TB2) | RUSS30073 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
| Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units | OPEN | 20 | Optional | |
| Italian and Spanish (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.
An oral distinction may be awarded.
The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (Modern Language Studies) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes
