DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2018

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

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.

3rd year: At least 30 weeks to be spent in Portuguese and Russian speaking countries. The minimum period of residence in the country of either of the languages will be eight consecutive weeks.

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. Portuguese Language for Combined Honours Degrees with Portuguese as a Named Component
(10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 course)
2. Russian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
3. Oral for Portuguese (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Oral for Russian (taught and assessed in Y4)
5. Portuguese Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
6. Russian 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. Portuguese Hons option 1
10. Portuguese Hons option 2
11. Russian Hons option 1
12. Russian Hons option 2

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. Portuguese Language Paper 1.
2. Portuguese Language Paper 1.
3. Russian Studies Language Paper 1.
4. Russian Studies Language Paper 1.
5. Oral for Portuguese.
6. Oral for Russian.
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) or Socrates Marks or Year Abroad Assessment.
8. MEL Dissertation Completion or MEL Long Essay.
9. Honours option for Portuguese.
10. Honours option for Portuguese.
11. Honours option for Russian Studies.
12. Honours option for Russian Studies.