University Calendar 2007/08
Section VI : Academic Regulations - Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
School of Humanities



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Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts
  1. Before admission to any course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts candidates must:

    1. satisfy the general entrance requirements specified in the University's Regulations for Admission to Degree Programmes;

    2. satisfy the requirements for the specific degree course; candidates may be admitted direct to the second or Final Year of a degree course with the prior approval of School Board and in accordance with University Ordinance 7.2.

  2. All candidates admitted to a course for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (or Bachelor Science where indicated below) shall be candidates for an honours degree and shall be registered for one of the following degree courses:

    Applied English Language Studies
    Archaeology
    Archaeology and Geography
    Archaeology and History
    Economics and Philosophy
    English
    English and French
    English and German
    English and History
    English and History of Art and Design
    English and Music
    English and Philosophy
    English and Spanish
    Film
    Film and English
    Film and French
    Film and German
    Film and History
    Film and Philosophy
    Film and Spanish
    French
    French (Linguistics and Language Studies)
    French and German
    French and German (Linguistics and Language Studies)
    French and History
    French and Music
    French and Philosophy
    French and Portuguese
    French and Spanish
    French and Spanish (Linguistics and Language Studies)
    German
    German (Linguistics and Language Studies)
    German and History
    German and Music
    German and Philosophy
    German and Spanish
    German and Spanish (Linguistics and Language Studies)
    History
    Language Learning
    Languages and Contemporary European Studies
    Languages and Contemporary European Studies (English)
    Management Science and French
    Management Science and German
    Management Science and Spanish
    Modern History and Politics
    Modern Languages
    Music
    Music and Management
    Philosophy
    Philosophy and History
    Philosophy and Mathematics
    Philosophy and Politics
    Philosophy and Sociology
    Politics and French Studies
    Politics and German Studies
    Politics and Spanish (or Portuguese) and Latin American Studies
    Spanish
    Spanish (Linguistics and Language Studies)
    Spanish and History
    Spanish and Latin American Studies
    Spanish and Portuguese

  3. Full-time degrees normally consist of three years study (or four years, including a year's residence abroad, for single and combined honours Modern Language degrees). All degrees (with the exception of BA Contemporary Europe and degrees combining two or more Modern Languages where agreement must be reached with the discipline) are normally also available on a part-time basis.

  4. With the permission of the School Board, a student may transfer between full-time and part-time study and vice versa. Part-time students will be subject to the same individual programme requirements as full-time students. A part-time programme shall extend over not less than four and not more than eight academic years, and students will be expected to register for a minimum of three and a maximum of six units per academic year.

  5. Degree courses are based on a common unit structure as follows:

    1. The subjects available in the School are divided into units; candidates are normally required to take the equivalent of eight units in each year to form a coherent pattern of study. Each unit is normally worth 15 credit points (7.5 ECTS points); for further details of the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) Regulations; see Section IV.

    2. A unit is a self-contained part of a programme of study. Each unit will have its own aims and objectives, syllabus and assessment requirements. Units will normally be assessed during and/or at the end of the semester in which the student takes the unit.

    3. Schools may specify for each degree course certain units which candidates for that degree course are required to take in each year. Apart from the specified units (if any) the choice of units shall be subject in all cases to programme approval.

  6. Candidates who successfully complete Year 1 but do not wish to proceed further with their course may be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE). Candidates who successfully complete Year 1 and Year 2 but do not wish to proceed further with their course may be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE). (See Section IV for Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) Regulations.)

  7. If candidates have not attended the required lectures, seminars, classes or laboratory practicals, and have not completed the prescribed work for a degree course to the satisfaction of the Head of Programmes concerned, the Examining Board will have the discretion to mark or not to mark the scripts.

Failures (all years)
  1. Where the Discipline or Combined Honours Examination Board concludes, on the basis of written evidence submitted before the examination or due date for assessed work, that a student who would otherwise have passed has failed due to circumstances outside his/her control, the Board may recommend that the student be re-examined/re-assessed as if for the first time or be set other work or, exceptionally, be deemed to have passed on the basis of previously submitted work. Departments making any such recommendation must specify the evidence on which they do so. Failure in re-examination or other set work will be treated in accordance with the regulations on failures.

  2. With the permission of the School Board candidates may transfer from one degree course to another not later than the end of the second semester of their course. In exceptional circumstances the Board may permit a transfer at a later stage.

    1. Philosophy may be begun as a new subject in the combined honours degree in the second year.

    2. First-year single honours candidates who have reached an appropriate standard in a first-year Alternative Subject in Music, Philosophy, Portuguese, or Spanish may apply for transfer to a second-year combined honours course with that subject as one of the two combined subjects*.

    3. Candidates reading single honours Spanish and Latin American Studies, including Portuguese, who wish to transfer to combined honours Portuguese and Spanish will transfer at the end of the first year.

    4. Candidates following a combined honours course who pass in one subject only in the qualifying examination may, with the permission of the School Board and subject to the requirements of the department concerned, proceed to the second year of the single honours course in that subject.

  3. Students who have passed the final examination/assessment in any degree course of the School may be admitted to the final examination/assessment in another degree course after not less than one year of attendance at prescribed courses of study for that other degree.
* Such transfers may also be allowed in cases where the relevant first-year course has not been taken but where an appropriate standard has been achieved, e.g. by study and/or residence in the country concerned.


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