University of Southampton Calendar 2007/8


University Calendar 2007/08 Section VI : Academic Regulations - Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences School of Humanities

Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Before admission to any course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts candidates must:
1. satisfy the general entrance requirements specified in the University's Regulations for Admission to Degree Programmes;
2. satisfy the requirements for the specific degree course; candidates may be admitted direct to the second or Final Year of a degree course with the prior approval of School Board and in accordance with University Ordinance 7.2.
All candidates admitted to a course for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (or Bachelor Science where indicated below) shall be candidates for an honours degree and shall be registered for one of the following degree courses:

Applied English Language Studies
Archaeology
Archaeology and Geography
Archaeology and History
Economics and Philosophy
English
English and French
English and German
English and History
English and History of Art and Design
English and Music
English and Philosophy
English and Spanish
Film
Film and English
Film and French
Film and German
Film and History
Film and Philosophy
Film and Spanish
French
French (Linguistics and Language Studies)
French and German
French and German (Linguistics and Language Studies)
French and History
French and Music
French and Philosophy
French and Portuguese
French and Spanish
French and Spanish (Linguistics and Language Studies)
German
German (Linguistics and Language Studies)
German and History
German and Music
German and Philosophy
German and Spanish
German and Spanish (Linguistics and Language Studies)
History
Language Learning
Languages and Contemporary European Studies
Languages and Contemporary European Studies (English)
Management Science and French
Management Science and German
Management Science and Spanish
Modern History and Politics
Modern Languages
Music
Music and Management
Philosophy
Philosophy and History
Philosophy and Mathematics
Philosophy and Politics
Philosophy and Sociology
Politics and French Studies
Politics and German Studies
Politics and Spanish (or Portuguese) and Latin American Studies
Spanish
Spanish (Linguistics and Language Studies)
Spanish and History
Spanish and Latin American Studies
Spanish and Portuguese
Full-time degrees normally consist of three years study (or four years, including a year's residence abroad, for single and combined honours Modern Language degrees). All degrees (with the exception of BA Contemporary Europe and degrees combining two or more Modern Languages where agreement must be reached with the discipline) are normally also available on a part-time basis.
With the permission of the School Board, a student may transfer between full-time and part-time study and vice versa. Part-time students will be subject to the same individual programme requirements as full-time students. A part-time programme shall extend over not less than four and not more than eight academic years, and students will be expected to register for a minimum of three and a maximum of six units per academic year.
Degree courses are based on a common unit structure as follows:
1. The subjects available in the School are divided into units; candidates are normally required to take the equivalent of eight units in each year to form a coherent pattern of study. Each unit is normally worth 15 credit points (7.5 ECTS points); for further details of the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) Regulations; see Section IV.
2. A unit is a self-contained part of a programme of study. Each unit will have its own aims and objectives, syllabus and assessment requirements. Units will normally be assessed during and/or at the end of the semester in which the student takes the unit.
3. Schools may specify for each degree course certain units which candidates for that degree course are required to take in each year. Apart from the specified units (if any) the choice of units shall be subject in all cases to programme approval.
Candidates who successfully complete Year 1 but do not wish to proceed further with their course may be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE). Candidates who successfully complete Year 1 and Year 2 but do not wish to proceed further with their course may be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE). (See Section IV for Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) Regulations.)
If candidates have not attended the required lectures, seminars, classes or laboratory practicals, and have not completed the prescribed work for a degree course to the satisfaction of the Head of Programmes concerned, the Examining Board will have the discretion to mark or not to mark the scripts.

Failures (all years)

Where the Discipline or Combined Honours Examination Board concludes, on the basis of written evidence submitted before the examination or due date for assessed work, that a student who would otherwise have passed has failed due to circumstances outside his/her control, the Board may recommend that the student be re-examined/re-assessed as if for the first time or be set other work or, exceptionally, be deemed to have passed on the basis of previously submitted work. Departments making any such recommendation must specify the evidence on which they do so. Failure in re-examination or other set work will be treated in accordance with the regulations on failures.
With the permission of the School Board candidates may transfer from one degree course to another not later than the end of the second semester of their course. In exceptional circumstances the Board may permit a transfer at a later stage.
1. Philosophy may be begun as a new subject in the combined honours degree in the second year.
2. First-year single honours candidates who have reached an appropriate standard in a first-year Alternative Subject in Music, Philosophy, Portuguese, or Spanish may apply for transfer to a second-year combined honours course with that subject as one of the two combined subjects^*.
3. Candidates reading single honours Spanish and Latin American Studies, including Portuguese, who wish to transfer to combined honours Portuguese and Spanish will transfer at the end of the first year.
4. Candidates following a combined honours course who pass in one subject only in the qualifying examination may, with the permission of the School Board and subject to the requirements of the department concerned, proceed to the second year of the single honours course in that subject.
Students who have passed the final examination/assessment in any degree course of the School may be admitted to the final examination/assessment in another degree course after not less than one year of attendance at prescribed courses of study for that other degree.

* Such transfers may also be allowed in cases where the relevant first-year course has not been taken but where an appropriate standard has been achieved, e.g. by study and/or residence in the country concerned.

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