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Your Future, Your Degree, Your Choice....
Keele University, where possible, offers you the opportunity to design your degree to suit your own interests and aspirations. This choice is delivered to you through electives at each level of study.
Your Electives...
Although, we give you choice, we also need to ensure that you have enough depth and breadth of knowledge in your degree subject(s) to be able to award you with your degree and to do this we have set a minimum number of subject related credits that you will have to ensure you pass by the end of your 3 levels of study.
You will take a total of 360 credits during 3 year degree (120 credits each year).
To obtain your dual honours degree you must take and pass a minimum of 120 credits (eight 15-credit modules) from a combination of core and approved programme electives in each principal subject over your three-year degree course.
To obtain your single honours degree, you must take and pass at least 255 credits (seventeen 15-credit modules) from a combination of core and approved electives in that subject over your three-year degree course.
To obtain your Major/Minor degree over your three-year degree course you must pass a minimum of 225 credits (fifteen 15-credit modules) in your Major subject and a minimum of 90 credits (six 15-credit modules) in your Minor subject (at least 3 of these 6 modules must be taken at level II).
If you are an International student it is very likely that we will recommend that you take one of our English Language for Academic Purposes modules as one of your elective choices. These modules are designed to improve your academic English skills. Find out more here
If you have questions or queries that you cannot find the answer to here please do not hesitate to contact us.
We very much hope that you enjoy electives at Keele.
Use them to design your own degree, enhance your CV and prepare yourself for life after University.
Derry Hodgkins
Electives Manager
