BA Liberal Arts

Institution

University of East Anglia

Level

undergraduate

Subject

Liberal Arts

Duration

3 years

UCAS code

Y000

Typical offer

A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB

About this course

BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary programme spanning arts, humanities, and social sciences. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The programme follows a major-minor structure, with the option to build a minor pathway in Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, or Sciences.

Modules

• WAYS TO KNOWLEDGE: DISCIPLINES AND PRACTICES
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
• INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
• REASONING AND LOGIC
• POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
• CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
• DIGITAL MEDIA: CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES & CULTURES
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
• NEW FORMS: WRITING AND COLLABORATION IN THE AGE OF AI
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
• INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MODERN HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES I
• UNDERSTANDING POLITICS TODAY: APPROACHES, ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES
• RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
• THEORISING MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
• MAKING MEDIA HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
• INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL HISTORY
• ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGY
• TELEVISION HISTORY
• WORLD CINEMAS
• VISUAL(ISING) HISTORY
• THE AGE OF EXTREMES: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1914
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY AND POLITICS
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
• GALLERIES & MUSEUMS: HISTORIES/POLITICS/ETHICS
• LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY
• MEDIA INDUSTRIES
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
• SPANISH YEAR 1 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• WORKING IN THE THEATRE 1: INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL THEATRE
• PEOPLE AND CULTURES
• INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
• FRENCH YEAR 1 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
• INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
• WORKING IN THE THEATRE 2: DEVELOPING PRODUCTION SKILLS
• JAPANESE YEAR 1 (SPRING SEMESTER)
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
• BECOMING A CRITIC
• WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
• INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
• BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
• CREATIVE WRITING: BEGINNINGS
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
• GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
• ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE
• MEDIA REPRESENTATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
• DOING HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
• DOING FILM HISTORY
• ANALYSING TELEVISION
• THE ACTOR'S CRAFT
• THE MEANING OF LIFE
• GLOBAL THEATRES
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES II
• JAPANESE YEAR 1 (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
• WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
• THE CATASTROPHIC FOURTEENTH CENTURY
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
• EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
• SPANISH YEAR 1 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
• FRENCH YEAR 1 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• COLLABORATIVE THEATRE-MAKING
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
• ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
• READING NOW
• WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
• EXPLORING PERFORMANCE
• ANALYSING FILM
• PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY
• MAKERS AND MAKING
• UNDERSTANDING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
• APPLIED BUSINESS PROJECT
• APPLIED SOCIAL THEORY
• THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT: THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY
• PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• PROGRAMMING 1
• CHEMISTRY OF THE CARBON-BASED COMPOUNDS
• EVOLUTION, BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY
• LIVING PLANET
• RESEARCH SKILLS IN BIOCHEMISTRY
• DATABASE SYSTEMS
• SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
• DIVERSITY OF LIFE
• BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN PRACTICE
• KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE AND PROOF FOR SECOND YEARS
• ETHICS FOR SECOND YEARS
• VICTORIAN WRITING
• SCRIPTWRITING: SCREEN AND STAGE
• THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
• INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
• THEORISING TELEVISION: FROM BROADCASTING TO STREAMING
• INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
• WRITING IN THE WORLD: PLACEMENTS, PODCASTS, CREATIVE NON FICTION
• APPLIED DRAMA AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
• ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
• LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
• JAPANESE YEAR 2 (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• SCREENWRITING
• FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
• SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
• EUROPEAN LITERATURE
• ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
• KEY CONCEPTS IN FILM THEORY
• ADAPTATION: CROSS-MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS
• SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
• LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD
• NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
• THE LIVES OF ARTWORKS
• FILMMAKING AND MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
• POPULAR MUSIC AND MEDIA
• PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
• POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
• AMERICA IN THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (SPR)
• GLOBAL COMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE
• CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
• ALGORITHMS & BLOCKBUSTERS: THE MAKING OF MEDIA AND CULTURAL POLICY
• LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
• SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
• GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
• TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY (LEVEL 5)
• THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
• POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
• INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
• POLITICS IN THE USA
• U.S. EMPIRE
• RELIGION AND WORLD PHILOSOPHIES FOR SECOND YEARS
• BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
• THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD 300-1000
• THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
• TEENAGE KICKS: DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE
• SCENOGRAPHY, DESIGN AND TECHNICAL THEATRE
• PROPAGANDA
• FRENCH YEAR 2 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
• THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (AUT)
• ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
• LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
• PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
• GENDER AND POWER
• FROM STUDIOS TO THE DIGITAL ERA: HOLLYWOOD AS GLOBAL INDUSTRY
• JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
• SCRIPTWRITING: TV/FILM
• LIBERAL ARTS SEMESTER ABROAD
• DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
• FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
• SPANISH YEAR 2 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• FACTUAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
• MATERIAL WORLDS
• COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
• GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
• MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
• POPULAR THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
• APPROACHES AND PRACTICE IN DIGITAL MEDIA
• ARTISTS/MUSEUMS
• ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING
• DEVISED THEATRE
• NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND
• PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE ARTS (SECOND YEAR MODULE)
• SCRIPTWRITING: STAGE/AUDIO
• ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
• ADVANCED ENGLISH II - B2 CEFR
• STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
• INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
• HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
• STUDYING AUDIENCES
• POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY
• ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
• READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
• LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
• HISTORY'S STORIES
• TRANSLATION AND MEDIA IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (LEVEL 5)
• EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
• THE POWER PARADOX: AUTHORITY, FREEDOM, AND CONFLICT IN MODERN SOCIETY
• FILM GENRES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
• TUDOR ENGLAND
• THE ACTOR'S WORK
• STUART ENGLAND
• INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - B1 CEFR
• DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
• APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONS
• INCLUSIVE CHILDHOOD; SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
• CHILDHOOD, YOUTH AND TRANSITIONS
• ENVIRONMENT, HARM AND SOCIETY
• 21ST CENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
• CRIMINOLOGY
• FAMILY LAW: CHILD LAW
• QUALITATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS
• EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
• GENDER, VICTIMISATION AND OFFENDING
• CRIME AND SOCIETY
• MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
• GENDER AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• CHILD OBSERVATION USING A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
• FAMILIES AND THE LIFE COURSE
• PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
• THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY
• EDUCATION AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• BIOCHEMISTRY
• BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• FIELD ECOLOGY
• EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
• DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
• COMMUNITY, ECOSYSTEM AND MACRO-ECOLOGY
• MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
• PROGRAMMING 2
• CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE AND POLICY
• LIBERAL ARTS CAPSTONE
• TRANSLATION WORK EXPERIENCE (LEVEL 6)
• MULTICULTURALISM
• THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
• CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
• IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
• THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
• CONTEMPORARY SCREEN DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION
• SELVES, IDENTITIES AND PERFORMANCE
• PITCH, PUBLISH, PERFORM
• THE REIGN OF LOUIS THE FAT: WAR, MURDER, & THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN EARLY TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE
• INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING
• DIGITAL POLITICS
• SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
• BANNED BOOKS
• THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
• JAPANESE YEAR 3 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
• THE ART OF MURDER
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING
• BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
• DIGITAL STORYTELLING
• DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
• TRANSLATION AND MEDIA IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (LEVEL 6)
• TEACHING HISTORY
• FRENCH YEAR 3 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• THE ACTOR'S ART
• EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHIES (THIRD YEAR MODULE)
• GREENING THE WORLD: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• THE CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
• SPECIALISED TRANSLATION (SPANISH)
• ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
• THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
• ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING FOR THIRD YEARS
• RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905-1921
• SPANISH YEAR 3 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
• MUSEUM WORK: THEORY & PRACTICE
• PRODUCTION EFFECTS
• CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
• BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
• THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
• SCIENCE FICTION
• TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
• MIND AND LANGUAGE FOR THIRD YEARS
• ETHICS FOR THIRD YEARS
• ROBIN HOOD: THE MEDIEVAL OUTLAW IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
• PRODUCTION
• MEDIA, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
• CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
• IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE
• GLOBAL INTERCULTURAL LEADERSHIP
• THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
• DATA, POLITICS AND SOCIETY
• IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
• WEAPONS OF WAR
• PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
• CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE AI AGE
• WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
• FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
• TELEVISION PRODUCTION FOR LIVE EVENTS
• ADVANCED TRANSLATION IN JAPANESE
• GRAND STRATEGY
• POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
• KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE AND PROOF FOR THIRD YEARS
• WRITING CONSCIOUSNESS: STYLE AND MODERNIST FICTION
• SCRIPTWRITING: ADAPTATION
• TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR SUBTITLING AND DUBBING (LEVEL 6)
• PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE ARTS (THIRD YEAR MODULE)
• RHETORIC: DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICS OF PERSUASION
• BLOOD AND BRUTALITY: VIOLENCE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
• US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
• INTERCULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
• WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
• EMBODIMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA & THE AMERICAS
• TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY (LEVEL 6)
• ADVANCED TRANSLATION (FRENCH TO ENGLISH)
• ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING
• APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• MAKING DIGITAL MEDIA
• WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
• CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS
• DOCUMENTARY AS SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
• INTRODUCTION TO CONFERENCE INTERPRETING
• RADICAL PERFORMANCE
• THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE: ROMANCE AND REALITY
• COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
• SOUND ON SCREEN
• MODERN ART AND STATES OF MIND
• CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
• CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES
• STORYTELLING, MEDIA AND CRISIS
• A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER
• RESEARCHING MEDIA INDUSTRIES AND CREATIVE SECTORS IN CONTEXT
• MAKING YOUR SHOWREEL
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED POETRY (AUT)
• CELEBRITY: FROM STARS TO INFLUENCERS
• CRITICAL VEGAN STUDIES
• MEDIA, CULTURE AND LEARNING
• BUSINESS ETHICS
• RISK AND RESILIENCE: YOUNG PEOPLE AS VICTIMS OF EXPLOITATION, OFFENDERS AND SURVIVORS
• STRATEGIC BRAND MANAGEMENT
• EMPLOYABILITY, CREATIVITY AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
• JURISPRUDENCE
• UNDERSTANDING CHILDHOODS: CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
• THE 21ST CENTURY FAMILY
• MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
• WARS AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
• THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY
• THE MILITARY, SECURITY AND SOCIETY
• PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
• FAMILY LAW: ADULT RELATIONSHIPS
• INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
• EVOLUTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
• FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE
• THE CARBON CYCLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• TOPICS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES
• BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND HUMAN SOCIETY
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONCEPTS
• SOCIAL EVOLUTION