Liberal Arts
Entry requirements
A level: AAA IB: 36 points overall, including 6,6,6 at Higher Level.
About this course
MLibArts in Liberal Arts, spanning humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Social & Cultural Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective, and Human Behaviour. The four-year degree incorporates Master's-level study in the final year alongside opportunities for international exchange and professional work placements.
Modules
- Understanding Now
- Mathematics for Economists
- English in Transition
- Philosophy and Human Nature
- Rethinking Society
- Statistical Methods
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- 'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology'
- The Sociological Imagination
- Introduction to Theatre: The Material Stage
- Introduction to Film Studies 1
- Introduction to Film Studies 2
- Solo Performance 1
- Music in History
- Planning Skills and GIS
- The History of Planned Settlement
- Introducing Criminology
- Economics for Business
- Celtic Mythology
- Introduction to English Language
- Perspectives on France: moments of crisis
- Exploring History 1
- Perspectives on Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Introduction to Iberian Studies
- Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts
- Beyond the Hexagon: French language, politics and culture in a global frame
- Exploring History 2
- Contemporary Europe
- World Politics
- Philosophy and The Good Life
- Introduction to Latin American Studies
- Being Human: Culture and Society
- Screen Technologies
- Europe in Prehistory
- Themes in Historical Archaeology
- Ancient Humans and Landscapes
- Environmental Change: past, present and future
- Quantitative Methods
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction To World Archaeology
- Introductory Logic
- Introducing Social Policy
- Themes and Issues in Social Policy
- Fundamentals of Sound
- Introduction to Music
- Visualising the Social World
- Digital Society
- Spanish 1
- Spanish for Beginners
- French 1
- Beginners French Studies (Post GCSE Level)
- Portuguese 1
- Introduction to Lusophone Studies
- Gaeilge 1
- Human Geography: Society, Power and Culture
- Human Geography: Society, Economy and Population
- Broadcast Analysis 1
- Broadcast Analysis 2
- Nualitríocht na Gaeilge ó 1916 go dtí an lá inniu
- Theatre Now: Contemporary Performance
- Audio Mixing I
- Introduction to Composition
- Sound Recording and Production 1
- The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
- Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups?
- What is to be done? Sustainability, climate change and just energy transitions in the Anthropocene
- Communicating Economics
- Foundations of Economics 1
- Foundations of Economics 2
- Study Skills for Archaeology and Palaeoecology
- Writing from 21st Century Ireland
- Earth Systems
- Uses of the Past
- Careers and Placement Preparation Module
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Linguistic Variation in French
- History & Theory of Architecture 2(i)
- Knowledge and Reality
- Film Genre Studies
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland
- The American South 1619-1865
- Welfare in Theory and Practice
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Ireland since partition
- The American South, 1865-1980
- Northern Ireland: Identities, Ideologies & Futures
- Film and Sound: History and Theory
- Solo Performance 2
- Politics and Policy of the European Union
- Modern Political Thought
- The Politics of Deeply Divided Societies
- Scottish Gaelic Language 1
- Managerial Economics
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Irish Politics
- International Relations
- Studying Politics
- World as Stage
- Economy and Space
- The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne
- Composition II
- The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
- American Politics
- Moral Theories
- The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
- Criminological Theory
- Data Analysis
- History of Philosophy
- Crime and the Media
- Archaeological Excavation
- Ireland in Prehistory
- Thinking through Things Theorizing Global Archaeology
- From St Patrick to the Plantation: The Archaeology of Historic Ireland
- Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789
- Security and Terrorism
- International Organisations
- Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
- World Cinema
- Macroeconomic Policy and Performance
- Game Theory
- Industrial Organisation
- Palaeoenvironmental Techniques
- History and Theory of Architecture 2
- Paris, City of Modernity
- The Sociolinguistics of Modern French
- Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World
- Questions for an Ageing World
- Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
- Principles of Business in Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries
- Educational Drama
- Re-imagining Spain in the nineteenth century
- Policing and Society
- Spanish 2
- The Fantastic in Latin America
- French 2
- Portuguese 2
- Gaeilge 2
- Protecting Paradise
- Improvisation
- British Politics in crisis?
- Acting Shakespeare
- Experimental Popular Musics
- Geomorphology
- Cultural and Political Geography
- Archaeology in Practice
- Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- Songwriting
- Broadcast Journalism
- Popular Genres
- Radio and Podcast Production
- Hanging out on Street Corners: Creative, Public and applied Anthropology
- Human Morality
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Understanding Gender and Migration
- Sociology of Conflict and Peace Processes
- Global Environmental Change
- Introduction to Animation Studies
- Creative Enterprise in Film and Digital Media
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Music Psychology
- Acting for Musical Theatre
- Identity Politics in Diverse Societies
- Drama and Mental Health
- Exploring Dynamic Environments (Fieldwork)
- Space, Culture and Mobility (Fieldwork)
- Justice and Conflict
- America's Aftermaths
- Dramaturgy
- Gender, Culture, and Representation – Backwards & in Heels
- Philosophy of Race
- Algeria and France: Trauma, Forgetting, Re-Membering
- Cearta an Duine agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge
- Anthropology of Media
- Political Economy of the Global South
- Culture, Class, and Emotion
- Arts and Humanities in the Contemporary World
- Study Abroad
- Public Economics
- Labour Economics
- History & Theory of Architecture 3(ii)
- Issues in Contemporary Irish Society
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine
- Disability and Society
- The Origins of Protestantism
- The Soviet Union 1921-1991
- Contemporary Political Philoso
- Gender and Politics
- Televising the Victorians
- Hollywood Cinema 2
- The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
- Language and Literature in the Gaelic World
- Beckett in Performance
- Earth, Energy, Ethics and Economy: The Politics of Unsustainability
- Language in the Media
- European Cultural Identities
- Geoforensics
- Traditional Irish Music: Form, Style and Development
- Advanced Theatre Practice
- Working and Studying Abroad
- War and Visual Culture and Surveillance
- Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective
- Applied Ethics
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East
- History & Theory of Architecture 2(ii)
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- The Art of Interaction
- Modern Families: Intimate and Personal Relationships
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Political Parties and Elections in Northern Ireland
- National and Ethnic Minorities in European Politics
- Society, Death and Disease
- Norms and Social Change
- Film and Music: Theory and Criticism
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- Challenges to contemporary party politics
- Politics, Public Administration and Policy-Making
- Economic History
- History and Theory of Architecture 3
- International Placement: Languages Year Abroad
- The Structure of English
- US Foreign Policy
- Asylum and Migration in Global Politics
- Gender, Family and Social Policy: Comparative Perspective
- Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge
- Politics in Popular Song from the French Revolution to Punk
- The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire
- Representing the Working Class
- Security and Technology
- The War of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
- Gaeilge 3
- Criminology Across Borders
- Irish Gothic
- Global Pol. Econ. of Energy
- Philosophy for Children
- Geography, Race and Empire
- Spaces of Urbanisation in Emerging Economies and Sustainable Development
- The Ancient City
- In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Twentieth-Century China
- Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa
- Placement
- Emotion, Power, and Politics: The Political Sociology of Emotions, Trump, Brexit, and Populism
- Solo Performance
- Media and Time
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Radical Hope:Inspiring Present-day Sustainability Transformations through an Examination of Our Past
- Critical Thinking and the Past
- International Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Sustaining the Biosphere
- Wolf Children and Baby Boomers: The Family in European History 1945-1970s
- Remembering the Future: Violen
- Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration
- Advanced Musical Theatre
- Scéal na hImirce -The Migrant Experience
- Health Geography
- Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Philosophy of Technology and Environment
- The cultural politics of memory in a global perspective
- The sociology of protest and revolution
- Gairmeacha le Gaeilge
- An Béal Beo
- War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- Transnational Crime cinema
- Remaking Cities: Comparative Urban Research
- Music, Power and Conflict
- Cinema and the Environment
- Health, Environment and Climate Change
- Media and Misinformation
- Music in Culture
- Cognition and Culture
- Incorrigibly Plural
- Liberal Arts Dissertation
- The Historian's Craft
- Independent Study
- Presenting Sources
- Introduction to Planning Theory and Practice
- International Planning Studies
- Professional Practice Project in Environmental Planning
- Individually Negotiated Topic in History
- Principles of Community Interpreting
- Advanced Anthropological Methods
- Advanced Anthropological Perspectives
- Ethnographic Writing
- The Anthropology of Music
- Community Planning and Regeneration
- Public History Internship
- The Politics and Institutions of Northern Ireland
- The Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- Global Political Economy
- Special Topic Irish Writing
- Shakespearean Childhoods
- Engaging Audiences
- Cultural Policy: International Perspectives
- Contemporary Issues in Arts and Cultural Industries Management
- Essential Skills in Arts and Cultural Industries Management
- Topics In Irish History
- Literary Research Methods
- The Politics and Political Economy of Energy and Low Carbon Energy Transitions
- Planning and Environmental Governance
- Contemporary Security
- Institutions and Politics of the European Union
- Religion, Power and Peacebuilding
- Belfast: Place, Identity and Memory in a Contested City
- Comparative Urban Design
- The UK and Europe
- Planning for Sustainable Communities
- Democratic Challenges and Innovations
- Public History Internship(MA Public History pathway)
- History and its Audiences
- Conflict Mediation and Transformation
- Advanced Studies in Music
- Broadcast Journalism
- Anthropology of Conflict: Ireland and Beyond
- Decadence and the Birth of Mod
- Fictions of Female Community, 1660-2007
- African Fiction: Race, Rites and Religion
- A Space for Radical Openness? Writing the Margins in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- Interactive Media
- Magic and Science in Medieval Writings
- Critical Geopolitics
- Geo-power: States, Sovereignty, Territory
- Culture and the Geopolitics of the Everyday
- Kingship and Colonisation in Medieval Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Comparative Territorial Politics
- Documentary Practice
- Adapting the Literary Text
- Irish Women's Writing
- Shakespeare and Asia
- Social Injustice
- Global Ireland
- Discourses of Crime and Deviance
- Language Revival, Reconciliation and Politics in Northern Ireland
- Virtues, Ethics, and Empire
- Applied Philosophy
- Individually Negotiated Topic
- Ethics, Law, and Responsibility
- Knowledge and Ignorance
- Global Development
- Migrating Identities
- Advanced Language Skills (French, Irish, Spanish or Portuguese)
- Research Methods 1: Research Design in Linguistics
- Phonetics and Phonology: Concepts and Practices
- Research Methods 2: Skills in Linguistic Research and Data Analysis
- Corpus Linguistics
- Living with Climate Change
- Culture and Climate Change
- Romantic-era Magazine and Print Culture
- Name Studies
- Interest Groups, Lobbying and Advocacy
- Diplomacy and Influence in International Affairs
- Policy analysis and evaluation: From theory to practice
- Leadership and Decision Making
- Uncovering Political Patterns using Data
- Philosophy of Time
- Shakespeare and Early Modern L