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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Notes:
Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Courses from School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures- Multiple UG Courses-Level 8

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Notes:
Level 7 language courses cannot be taken for credits on this degree programme.

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
Entry into Honours:
(1) students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years;
(2) students must achieve 50% or more at first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree;
(3) students must achieve at least 50% overall in the relevant second-year language course(s), including at least 50% in the language component of that course.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

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Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School of LLC and PPLS Level(s) 8

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
Scandinavian Languages 2 is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in year one.
For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.

AND

Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
At least 30 weeks must be spent in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking country as appropriate.

Final Assessment:

*This applies to students who will be studying abroad during 2018/19*

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Spanish Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Portuguese Language for Combined Honours Degrees with Portuguese as a Named Component (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 course)
3. Oral for Spanish (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Oral for Portuguese (taught and assessed in Y4)
5. Spanish Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
6. Portuguese Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
7. MEL Year Abroad Work (ECTS ELCC10002 or MEL Dissertation Preparation - see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation; credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed)
9. Spanish Hons option 1
10. Spanish Hons option 2
11. Portuguese Hons option 1
12. Portuguese Hons option 2

Compulsory courses

Course options

DELC Year Abroad Options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
Final Assessment:

*This applies to students completing their degree during 2018/19*

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Spanish 4 Honours Language Paper 1.
2. Spanish 4 Honours Language Paper 1.
3. Portuguese Language for Combined Honours
4. Portuguese Language for Combined Honours.
5. Spanish Oral.
6. Portuguese Oral.
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation OR MEL Year Abroad Assessment(same mark as 8.
8. MEL Dissertation Completion OR MEL Long Essay.
9. Honours option course in Spanish.
10. Honours option course in Spanish.
11. Honours option course in Portuguese.
12. Honours option course in Portuguese.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

European Languages and Cultures - Hispanic Studies Level 10 courses

Notes:
Select 40 credits from the Spanish range of courses
AND

Portuguese Level 10 Hons Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

DELC Dissertation or Long Essay

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses

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