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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2019/2020

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Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

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

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Celtic_Year 1_Gaelic

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
OR

Celtic_Year 1_Celtic Civ

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
OR

Celtic_Year 1_IGLAC

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scandinavian Studies Year 1

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

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


Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Notes:
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).

Please note:
A revision of the second year offerings in Scandinavian Studies has been agreed and this will take effect from academic year 2020/21.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Scandinavian Studies language options - Year 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Celtic_Year 2_Gaelic

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
OR

Celtic_Year 2_Celtic Literature in Translation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

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

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Notes:
During 3rd Year:
At least 30 weeks must be spent in a Scandinavian-speaking country and prescribed work completed in Celtic and the relevant language in an approved establishment.

Final Assessment:

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. Scandinavian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Scandinavian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Scandinavian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Scandinavian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Year abroad work for Celtic
6. Year abroad work for Celtic (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. Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies
10. Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies
11. Honours option course in Celtic
12. Honours option course in Celtic

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

DELC Year Abroad Options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Scandinavian Online Language Courses

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Notes:
Final Assessment:

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. Scandinavian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Scandinavian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Scandinavian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Scandinavian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Year abroad work for Celtic
6. Year abroad work for Celtic (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. Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies
10. Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies
11. Honours option course in Celtic
12. Honours option course in Celtic

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Scandinavian Year 4 orals

Select exactly 0 credits of the following courses
AND

Courses from schedule G - MEL joint degrees - level 10

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

European Languages & Cultures - Scandinavian Stud Level 10 courses

AND

Celtic Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Celtic Level 10 courses
Notes:
Students who have not taken Gaelic language to Year 2 must select their Celtic Honours courses from the list of medieval options.

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