BA Liberal Arts
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: Pass, with overall score of 34 points with 17 at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, a Liberal Arts degree centred on interdisciplinary studies across arts, humanities, and social sciences. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Human Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students examine cultural, ethical, and political questions while exploring subjects of personal interest. The first year covers foundational subjects through Ancient Greek Philosophy, Comparative Politics, and Ethics. Second-year studies advance through Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World, Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology, and Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts. Optional modules allow further exploration across various disciplines within the arts and social sciences.
Modules
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Common Practice Tonality Fundamentals
- Comparative Politics
- Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Engaging Political Ideas
- English on the Move
- Ethics
- European Cinema
- Exploring Other Cultures
- Historical Perspectives: Deviance, Conflict, Censure and Control
- History Matters (Object, Image, Text)
- Human Understanding and Understanding Humans
- Inequalities in Everyday Worlds
- Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology
- Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- Introduction to German Studies
- Introduction to International Relations
- Introduction to Spain, Latin America and the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Key Thinkers and Big Ideas: Foundations in Social Theory
- Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain’s Past
- Language, Ideologies and Attitudes
- Music in Context 1
- Music in Context 2
- Portuguese accelerated language stages 3-4
- Reason and Argument
- The (Undergraduate) Learning Curve
- The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern
- The Making of Modern English
- The Novel
- The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought
- Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity
- Understanding the Social World
- World Histories Introduced
- A (Dis) United Kingdom? An introduction to British Politics
- Ancient Sources in Context
- Antiquity and Authority: Ancient Persia in Modern Iranian Politics
- Applications of Linguistics
- Applied Ethics
- Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science
- Delivering Justice: Mapping the Criminal Justice System
- Digital Media: Culture and Identity
- Faith and Reason
- Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society
- Foundations of Modern Politics
- Freedom and Responsibility
- Global Dilemmas: Reading Contemporary Politics
- Human Origins
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation
- Language Acquisition
- Literary Transformations
- Masada: History and Myth
- Music sources and transmission
- Pandemic, Famine, War and Popular Revolt: The Apocalyptic Fourteenth Century
- Philosophy of Race
- Putin and the Politics of Post-Soviet Russia
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- Racism and Resistance: From Slavery to BLM
- Rebellions and Uprising in the age of the Tudors
- Sexual Politics: Gender History in Twentieth Century Britain
- The Crimean War
- The French Revolution
- Theory and Criticism
- Understanding History and Society
- World Dramas
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology
- Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts
- Desire and Decay: Literature of the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- French Language Stage 5
- German Language Stage 5
- Global Cinemas
- Making History: Historians and Audiences
- Mind and World in the History of Philosophy
- Music Education and Social Justice
- Portuguese Language Stage 5
- Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques
- Self, society, nature, and normativity
- Sounding Equality: A Sustainable Music History
- Spanish Language Stage 5
- The Struggle for Democracy
- The Worlding of English Literature
- Theorising International Politics
- Theorizing The Social World
- Variation and Change in English
- Working With Things: the analysis of material culture
- An Anthropology of Everything
- Animal Ethics, Animal Minds
- Building London: the history of a city, 1666 – 2012
- Contemporary Theories of Justice
- Critical Chronologies: Archaeological dating
- Decolonising Modernity
- Digital Media and The World of Work
- Discourse Analysis
- Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence
- Ethics of Global Poverty
- Ethics of War
- Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
- French Accelerated Language Stages 3-4
- Gender and Society
- German Accelerated Language Stages 3-4
- Global Hip Hop
- How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
- Imperial China: From China’s mythical emperors to the 19th century
- Introduction to European Prehistory
- Language, Power and Institutions: How Linguistic Practices Can Shape Our Lives
- Migration, Borders, Refuge: Political Ethics in an Age of Mobility
- Music Therapy 1: Fundamentals
- Political Thinking
- Portuguese accelerated language stages 3-4
- Psycholinguistics
- Qualitative Research in Politics & International Relations
- Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Spanish Language Stages 3/4 (Accelerated)
- Speech Acts
- Sweatshops, Sex workers, and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Television Studies: Key Debates
- The Making of Modern India
- Adventures in Musical Research
- Archaeology Dissertation
- Dissertation
- Dissertation in Politics & International Relations
- Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative
- English Dissertation
- Film Dissertation
- French Language Stage 6
- German Language Stage 6
- History Dissertation
- Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation
- Philosophy Dissertation
- Reading Histories
- Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation
- Research Project
- Spanish Language Stage 6
- A Short History of Modern Science
- A Short History of the Far Right
- A Short History of the Populist Leader
- Anarchism in Theory and Practice
- Animal Forms: poetry and the non-human
- Breaking the Binary: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Music
- Business, Morality, and Markets
- Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Digital Media, Language and Communication
- Ecology of Human Evolution: Biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations.
- Environmental Cinema and Media
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
- German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
- Global Terrorism and Political Violence
- International Film Industry: Issues and Debates
- Music Therapy 2: Beneath the Surface
- Opera and Musical Theatre in Europe (1600-1750): The Birth of Multimedia Entertainment
- Philosophy and Ethics in Psychology and AI
- Presenting the Past: Museums and Heritage
- Reinventing Democracy: Innovation, Participation and Power
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sexuality and Intimacy
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Social Stratification, Division and Resilience
- The Archaeology and Anthropology of Adornment
- The Ethics of Climate Change