BASc Arts and Sciences (Societies)
Entry requirements
A level: A*AA (A Social Science is required.) IB: 39 points (A total of 19 points in three higher level subjects, to include a Social Science, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BASc in Arts and Sciences (Societies), an arts and sciences degree centred on multi-disciplinary investigation and problem-solving. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Design & Creative Practice, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete a consultancy project in the final year and can undertake an internship. The first year covers core foundations through Approaches to Knowledge: Introduction to Interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary Research Methods, and Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Thinking, alongside optional modules such as Documentary Film-Making and Introduction into Politics: Key Concepts and Texts. The second year focuses on advanced enquiry with the compulsory module Framing Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Concepts, Contexts, and Enquiry, plus optional choices like Quantitative Methods 2: Data Science and Visualisation and Qualitative Thinking: Research Methods in Cultural Analysis. The third year centres on professional application through the compulsory module The Knowledge Economy: Consultancy Project, with further independent study options including the BASc Final Year Dissertation and the Creative Practice Dissertation.
Modules
- Approaches to Knowledge: Introduction to Interdisciplinarity
- Interdisciplinary Research Methods
- Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Thinking
- Introduction to Anatomy and Development
- Introduction to Social Anthropology 1 A
- Introduction to Biological Anthropology I A
- Documentary Film-Making
- World Archaeology (ii): From early states to globalization
- Algorithms: Logic and Structures
- Logic, Computation and Language Theory
- Introduction into Politics: Key Concepts and Texts
- Environmental Change and Disease
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Framing Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Concepts, Contexts, and Enquiry
- Object Lessons: Communicating Knowledge Through Collections
- Quantitative Methods 2: Data Science and Visualisation
- Qualitative Thinking: Research Methods in Cultural Analysis
- Arabic Level 2
- Arabic Level 3
- Arabic Level 4
- Arabic Level 5: Business and Current Affairs
- Arabic Level 6: Current Affairs and Culture
- Arabic Level 7: Professional Purposes
- Dutch Level 2
- The Knowledge Economy: Consultancy Project
- BASc Final Year Dissertation
- Creative Practice Dissertation