DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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

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 50% or more at first attempt in the selected Scandinavian Studies language course AND an average mark of at least 50% at first attempt across 20 credits of selected courses from the Scandinavian Year 2 elective collection.
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 further revision of the second year offerings in Scandinavian Studies has been agreed and it is anticipated that this will take effect from academic year 2023/24.

During 3rd Year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks must be spent in a Scandinavian-speaking country and prescribed work completed in Scottish Ethnology 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. 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 Scottish Ethnology
6. Year Abroad Work for Scottish Ethnology (same mark as 5)
7. MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion OR Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology (if MEL Dissertation, Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from Preparation and 90% from final Dissertation Completion. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation Preparation unless the full 2-year course is completed.)
9. Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology OR Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
10. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
11. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
12. Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies

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 Scottish Ethnology
6. Year Abroad Work for Scottish Ethnology (same mark as 5)
7. MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion OR Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology (if MEL Dissertation, Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from Preparation and 90% from final Dissertation Completion. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation Preparation unless the full 2-year course is completed.)
9. Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology OR Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
10. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
11. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
12. Honours option course in Scandinavian Studies