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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

Spanish language options - Year 1

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;
(4) All courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad, an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

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

Select exactly 20 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 exactly 20 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:
During 3rd year: At least 30 weeks must be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in Social Policy and the relevant language in an approved establishment.

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. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Spanish Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Spanish Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Spanish (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Spanish Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Social Policy YA Work
6. Social Policy YA Work (Same mark as 5)
7. MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Dissertation papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Spanish Hons option course
10. Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy
11. Social Policy Dissertation
12. Social Policy Dissertation

Compulsory courses

You must take these 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. Spanish 4 Honours Language Paper 2.
4. Spanish Oral.
5. Year abroad marks for Social Policy.
6. Year abroad marks for Social Policy.
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR Year Abroad Assessment.
8. MEL Dissertation Completion OR MEL Long Essay.
9. Honours option course in Spanish.
10. Analyical Perspectives in Social Policy.
11. Social Policy Dissertation.
12. Social Policy Dissertation.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

European Languages and Cultures - Hispanic Studies Level 10 courses

AND

DELC Dissertation or Long Essay

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses

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