Selecting your modules

You should view the online module catalogue which will allow you see use keywords in Portico to view and search all modules running in the 2024/25 academic year. The catalogue will be updated on 14 March 2024 to show next year's modules and assessments.

You are required to progress each year of your degree, so your modules each year should be at the appropriate level, i.e. Level 5 modules in your second year and Level 6 / 7U modules in your final year.

There's additional information below that you should also review before submitting your course choice form.

Bartlett modules

It's worth noting that the following modules are never open to students outside of the Bartlett:

BARC0092 Making Cities: The Production of the Built Environment
BPLN0070 Planning History and Thought
BPLN0071 Contemporary Cities
BPLN0073 Introducing Urban Design: Design Skills
BPLN0078 Urban Design: Theory to Practice
BPLN0079 Green Futures
BPLN0083 Project Work

Bartlett School of Architecture

The following modules are open to BASc students :

BARC0094 Design and Creative Practice 1
BARC0095 Architectural Research I
BARC0100 Computing for Design and Creative Practice
BARC0103 Project X: Design and Creative Practice 2 (30 credits)
BARC0104 Project X: Design and Creative Practice 2 (compact, 15 credits)
BARC0107 Project X: Design and Creative Practice 3 (30 credits)

Bartlett School of Planning modules

The following modules offered are open to BASc students:

BPLN0069 Introducing Planning Systems
BPLN0074 Management for Built Environment Professionals I
BPLN0075 Introduction to Real Estate
BPLN0080 Cities and Social Change
BPLN0084 Urban and Environmental Politics
BPLN0085 Urban Form and Formation
BPLN0087 Real Estate Economics
BPLN0088 Development Project: Regeneration
BPLN0090 Urban Project Management
BPLN0091 Transport Policy and Planning
BPLN0096 Real Estate Management

Places on these modules are very limited so if you're interested in taking one of them, you would have to register for them on Portico as soon as possible after module selection opens.

Generally, modules that come under the School of Planning which are either fieldwork based or based in a cluster room are not open to external students.

Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Most modules under the School of Construction and Project Management are open to external students. You should note that even though their modules are worth 15 credits, they run across the whole academic year so you would be required to attend all classes for the full duration of the module.

Child Health modules

Modules offered by the Institute of Child Health, i.e. those that begin with GLBHXXXX, are only open to final year students.

However, there is no guarantee that anybody selecting a Child Health module will have their choice approved, so you should have a back-up in mind if you select one of the GLBHXXXX modules.

Computer Science modules

BAScers are only permitted to take the Computer Science modules shown below and there are very limited places available on these. We in UASc inform which BASc students should be accepted if more students apply than we have places reserved. Please check the module catalogue for prerequisites for these modules. Modules not included in this list are not open to you.

COMP0009 Logic
COMP0014 Intelligent Systems
COMP0015 Introduction to Programming (no BASc places reserved on this module)
COMP0017 Computability and Complexity Theory
COMP0024 Artifical Intelligence and Neural Computing
COMP0034 Web Development (priority for allocation on this module will go to students also taking COMP0035)
COMP0035 Systems Engineering (priority for allocation on this module will go to students also taking COMP0034)
COMP0142 Machine Learning for Domain Specialists (no BASc places reserved on this module)

The following modules will require approval from an External Tutor in the Computer Science department before they will agree to let you take them:

COMP0017 Computational Complexity
COMP0024 Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

EISPS modules

BASc students can take the following ESPS-coded modules in 2024/25:

Level 5 (open to second years only)

ESPS0005 EU Law (30 credits)
ESPS0006 EU Law (15 credits)
ESPS0007 Principles of Public International Law (30 credits)
ESPS0008 Principles of Public International Law (15 credits)
ESPS0009 Law and Governance in Contemporary China
ESPS0020 Nietzsche
ESPS0022 Why Democracy?
ESPS0040 Politics of Japan
ESPS0042 Healthcare Law and Ethics
ESPS0044 Ethics and Society
ESPS0045 Politics of the Middle East: Theories and Practices
ESPS0046 Introduction to Chinese Culture, Language and Society
ESPS0047 Topics in Global South Politics and Policy

Level 6 (open to finalists)

ESPS0013 Hegel
ESPS0014 Anarchism, Marxism and Beyond
ESPS0015 Political Economy
ESPS0017 Ideologies and Political Hegemony
ESPS0018 Political Violence and Intrastate Conflicts (places are very limited)
ESPS0019 Republicanism and Identity Politics in France Today
ESPS0024 Law, Freedom and Morality
ESPS0025 War and Peace
ESPS0036 Mandarin for Current Affairs and Politics

English modules

If, after taking ENGL0005 Introduction to English Literature in year 1 you want to take further English modules in years 2 and 3, you must meet both of the following criteria:

You achieve a 2.1 mark (60) in both essays for ENGL0005 Introduction to English Literature
For all years: you take a full 30 credit module which is assessed by a final exam. You will still have to submit one tutorial essay in the course of each term, but these would be used as formative as opposed to summative means of assessment.

The English department alternate the modules they offer each year, so those that were available in 2023/24 will not be available again until 2025/26.

Language choices

You are only permitted to change your Core language under one of the following rules:

You must progress in language level every year, including during your year abroad if a year abroad forms part of your programme.
You can change language once during your programme, but such changes must adhere to rule 1. Such a change must involve your being assessed by CLIE and approved for the new language course. Changes made at the end of the second year must see the new language taken at a minimum of Level 2. Changes at the start of year 3 or 4 must be at a minimum of Level 3.
In the rare event a suitable language course (invariably at the higher levels) is not offered by CLIE or SSEES, and on approval by both the Departmental Tutor and Chair of Exams, you can change to another language course at FHEQ Level 6 (or above) having taken a course at FHEQ level 6 in the previous year. [Very occasionally at the very highest CLIE language levels, due to low demand, CLIE courses may not be available. Some SSEES languages (excluding Russian) are also only available up to Level C so would require a change in the final year for students on the year abroad programme when they return for their final year.]

Students returning from their year abroad

If you spend a year studying abroad or completing an traineeship, you are required to go up at least two levels from the end of your second year when you return for your final year. For example, if you complete level 3 at the end of your second year, you must register for at least level 5 in your final year. This is because you are required to continue your language study whilst abroad, even if you have gone to a country in which your Core language is not spoken.

As a reminder, you can only take one 15 credit module in your Core language each year.

Laws modules

If you want to study modules taught by the Faculty of Laws in Year 2 or later, you must meet the following criteria:

Year 1 to Year 2 - BASc students must have achieved a 2:1 performance in their first year (i.e. at least 60% average with no failures) and at least 60% in the BASC0057 (previously coded LAWS0009) Law in Action module in order to be admitted onto an LLB module in their second year.
Final-year optional LLB modules will only be open to BASc students who are moving from Year 2 into Year 3 who have studied and passed a LAWS-coded module in their second-year or a Laws module at their overseas host institution. Please note that ESPS-coded law modules do not meet the prerequisite requirement to take a LAWS-coded module in your final year.

Politics modules

You are not permitted to take either of the following POLS modules as they're too similar to BASC0002 and BASC0003:

POLS0008 Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods
POLS0010 Introduction to Data Analysis

In addition, any of the POLS-coded modules under the Q-Step programme are not open to BAScers.

SELCS modules

We have places reserved for BASc students on the following SELCS modules. Please check the module catalogue for any prerequisites for these modules.

Level 4 (open to first years only)

DUTC0003 Born out of Rebellion: The Netherlands from the Dutch Revolt to the Eve of World War I
ELCS0002 How to Read Film: Critical Analysis and Key Concepts
ELCS0003 Understanding History: Facts, Interpretations, Stories
ELCS0004 Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics
FREN0008 French Film (requires A Level or equivalent in French)
LITC0027 Canons and Creativity: Period, Context, Text

Level 5 (open to second years only)

DUTC0008 Multiculturalism and Identity
ELCS0032 Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe
ELCS0033 Utopias and Dystopias in Literature
ELCS0035 Theatre Translations and Adaptations
ELCS0036 Topics in Film Studies 1
ELCS0037 Topics in Film Studies 2
ELCS0038 Aspects of European Thought
ELCS0039 Cultures of Conflict
ELCS0040 Post-1945 European Literature
ELCS0042 Topics in Linguistics I
ELCS0043 Topics in Linguistics II
ELCS0044 Translation and Intercultural Dialogue (not running in 2024/25)
ELCS0045 Topics in History
ELCS0047 Topics in Visual Representation
ELCS0090 Isolation, Society and Dystopia: Mortal Thoughts (not running in 2024/25)
ELCS0091 Crisis and Disease in the West: Culture, Humanity and Data (not running in 2024/25)
FREN0009 An Introduction to Literary Theory (requires A Level or equivalent in French)
FREN0013 Enlightenment and the Revolution: the 18th Century
FREN0014 Romanticism and Modernity: the 19th Century
FREN0015 Exploration of Self and Form: The Contemporary Period (requires post A Level French)
GERM0010 Aspects of Twentieth Century German History (normally requires intermediate / post ab-initio German)
GERM0015 The Challenge of Modernity: Literature and Culture 1870-Present (normally requires intermediate / post ab-initio German)
SCAN0023 Nordic Literature in Context

Level 6 (open to second years and finalists, but priority for the reserved spaces will go to finalists)

DUTC0010 The Contemporary in Dutch Literature
ELCS0006 Historical Topics I: Music, Nations, Society
ELCS0009 Legacies of the Holocaust in Europe
ELCS0017 Sequential Art as a Form of Engagement
ELCS0020 Dangerous Bodies and Lady Killers: Criminality and Gender in 19th Century European Culture and History
ELCS0029 Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
ELCS0031 From Futurism to Surrealism: European Avant-Gardes Before and After the First World War
FREN0025 Dominating Texts: Literary Power Relations in 20th Century Writing (normally requires advanced French)
FREN0039 Gender, Race and Sexuality (normally requires advanced French)
SPAN0042 Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II) (normally requires advanced Spanish)

Last updated 12 February 2024