THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

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

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Entry requirements:
for French 1A: a pass in French at National 5 (SQA) or GCSE
for French 1B: a pass in French at Higher (SQA), A-level or equivalent
Entrants with SQA qualifications should hold at least a 'B' pass. Students with a grade B at Higher OR a 'crash' Higher OR a Higher awarded more than 1 year ago will be registered on French 1B, but may take a Diagnostic Test to gauge their ability. Depending on the results, course registration may be changed to French 1A.
AND

First Year History - Worlds Courses

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, 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 above in 40 credits of second year History courses at the first attempt.
(3) Students must achieve 50% or more at first attempt in both compulsory second-year French courses. If a student achieves a pass in ELCF08012 French 2 Literature and Culture but fails to meet the 50% requirement, progression to Honours will be permitted if the student has achieved 50% or more at first attempt in ELCF08009 Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A.
(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

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Second Year History Courses

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

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:
Nordic Languages: Diversity and Historical Developments is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in Year 1.
Communicating across the Scandinavian Languages is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in Year 1.
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, S, T, W and Y

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
You may NOT choose more than 20 credits of History courses (with codes starting HIST) in this collection.
Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks must be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in History and the relevant language in an approved establishment. During sessions when this is not permitted students will be offered an alternative means of engagement.

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.

1. French Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. French Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for French (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. French Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. History YA work (where students choose the option of studying in the host university, this will not count towards the degree classification)
6. History YA work (where students choose the option of studying in the host university, this will not count towards the degree classification)
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. French Honours option course
10. History Year 4 Special Subjects course
11. History Year 4 Special Subjects course
12. History Honours Electives course

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 40 credits in this group.

Year abroad work for degrees in languages and history - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Year abroad work for degrees in languages and history - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.

1. French Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. French Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for French (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. French Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. History YA work (where students choose the option of studying in the host university, this will not count towards the degree classification)
6. History YA work (where students choose the option of studying in the host university, this will not count towards the degree classification)
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. French Honours option course
10. History Year 4 Special Subjects course
11. History Year 4 Special Subjects course
12. History Honours Electives course

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

History Year 4 Special Subjects

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.
AND

European Languages and Cultures - French Level 10 courses

AND

DELC Dissertation or Long Essay

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

History Honours Electives

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

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