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.

During 3rd year: At least 30 weeks to be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in Politics 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.

1. Portuguese Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Portuguese Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Portuguese (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Portuguese Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Politics YA Work
6. Politics 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 (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. Portuguese Hons option course
10. Politics option 1
11. Politics option 2
12. Politics option 3

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 4 Honours Language Paper 1.
2. Portuguese 4 Honours Language Paper 1.
3. Portuguese 4 Honours Language Paper 2.
4. Portuguese Oral.
5. Year abroad marks for Politics.
6. Year abroad marks for Politics.
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation OR Year Abroad Assessment (same mark as 8).
8. MEL Dissertation Completion OR MEL Long Essay.
9. Dissertation in Politics OR Politics Option.
10. Dissertation in Politics OR Politics Option.
11. Honours option course in Portuguese.
12. Politics option.