BA Liberal Arts
Entry requirements
A level: A*AA To study English Literature, an A at A level is required in the subject. To study History, an A at A level is required in the subject. To study Music, an A at A level is required in the subject. To study French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese or Spanish at an advanced level, an A at A level in the language is required. To study Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish at a beginner’s level, an A at A level in a modern foreign language is required. IB: 37 with 766 in higher level subjects. Subject requirements as listed above for A level.
About this course
BA (Hons) Liberal Arts, a degree centred on sustained study in two subject areas drawn from across the Arts and Humanities, with options also available from the Social Sciences. Core topics include Research Methods. Students take two pathways from departments within the university's arts and humanities offering, or pair one arts and humanities pathway with one from the Social Sciences. The course runs for three years full-time, and a placement year or a year abroad can be added, extending it to four. The first year combines compulsory Liberal Arts modules with pathway study in a chosen department. Sources of the Self examines how religion, culture, science, nature and technology have shaped ideas about selfhood and identity, while The Strange Death of Liberal Modernity considers the political, cultural and intellectual foundations of the modern liberal world and the pressures now placed on them. Students also take Pathway 1 in a department in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Pathway 2 in a department in either the Faculty of Arts and Humanities or the Faculty of Social Sciences, each drawing on compulsory and optional modules. The second year involves 120 credits of optional modules drawn from Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, with at least 60 credits from Arts and Humanities, including examples such as Arts and Humanities in the Workplace and Exploration modules from across arts and humanities departments. In the final year, students complete 80 credits of optional modules alongside the compulsory Interdisciplinary Dissertation in the Arts and Humanities, an original research project that brings together theories and materials from two subjects studied on the programme.
Modules
- Sources of the Self
- The Strange Death of Liberal Modernity
- Pathway 1 in a department in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Pathway 2 in a department in either the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, or the Faculty of Social Sciences
- Example optional modules
- Interdisciplinary Dissertation in the Arts and Humanities
- Example optional modules