BA Liberal Arts with a Year Abroad
Entry requirements
A level: AAB
About this course
BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts, combining academic study across the arts and humanities. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The degree follows a major and minor structure, with minors available in Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, or Sciences. A year abroad is incorporated into the four-year programme.
Modules
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES YEAR ABROAD MODULE
- WAYS TO KNOWLEDGE: DISCIPLINES AND PRACTICES
- THE AGE OF EXTREMES: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1914
- INTRODUCTION TO 2OTH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY
- WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
- DOING HISTORY
- CLASSIC READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
- MEDIA REPRESENTATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
- GALLERIES & MUSEUMS: HISTORIES/POLITICS/ETHICS
- CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
- EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
- WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
- EXPLORING PERFORMANCE
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
- ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGY
- FRENCH YEAR 1 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
- INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MODERN HISTORY
- GLOBAL THEATRES
- SPANISH YEAR 1 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
- JAPANESE YEAR 1 (SPRING SEMESTER)
- INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
- FRENCH YEAR 1 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
- MEDIA INDUSTRIES
- UNDERSTANDING POLITICS TODAY: APPROACHES, ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES
- WORKING IN THE THEATRE 1: INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL THEATRE
- INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
- THEORISING MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
- MAKERS AND MAKING
- CREATIVE WRITING: BEGINNINGS
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN II - A2 CEFR
- LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES I
- NEW FORMS: WRITING AND COLLABORATION IN THE AGE OF AI
- MODERN READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY
- INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
- PEOPLE AND CULTURES
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
- ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
- GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
- READING NOW
- WORKING IN THE THEATRE 2: DEVELOPING PRODUCTION SKILLS
- BECOMING A CRITIC
- POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
- WORLD CINEMAS
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE I
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
- RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
- SPANISH YEAR 1 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN I - A1 CEFR
- DOING FILM HISTORY
- MAKING MEDIA HISTORY
- THE CATASTROPHIC FOURTEENTH CENTURY
- TELEVISION HISTORY
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
- THE ACTOR'S CRAFT
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL HISTORY
- PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
- THE MEANING OF LIFE
- VISUAL(ISING) HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES II
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
- COLLABORATIVE THEATRE-MAKING
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- ANALYSING FILM
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
- REASONING AND LOGIC
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
- DIGITAL MEDIA: CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES & CULTURES
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN I - A1 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
- ANALYSING TELEVISION
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- JAPANESE YEAR 1 (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE II
- INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE II
- UNDERSTANDING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
- INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT: THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY
- THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
- PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
- APPLIED BUSINESS PROJECT
- APPLIED SOCIAL THEORY
- RESEARCH SKILLS IN BIOCHEMISTRY
- CHEMISTRY OF THE CARBON-BASED COMPOUNDS
- EVOLUTION, BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY
- LIVING PLANET
- 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
- SPANISH YEAR 2 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
- 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
- JAPANESE YEAR 2 (SPRING SEMESTER)
- 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
- FRENCH YEAR 2 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY
- ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
- READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
- LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
- 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
- WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- 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
- SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
- GENDER, VICTIMISATION AND OFFENDING
- CRIME AND SOCIETY
- MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
- GENDER AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
- 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
- MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
- IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
- STORYTELLING, MEDIA AND CRISIS
- 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
- THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1450 TO 1950
- INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING
- DIGITAL POLITICS
- SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
- JAPANESE YEAR 3 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
- 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
- PRODUCTION EFFECTS
- 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)
- WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
- 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
- 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
- MAKING DIGITAL MEDIA
- 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
- FRENCH YEAR 3 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
- GLOBAL INTERCULTURAL LEADERSHIP
- THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
- IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
- WEAPONS OF WAR
- PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
- CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE AI AGE
- 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)
- GENDER AND MEDIA
- ADVANCED TRANSLATION (FRENCH TO ENGLISH)
- ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING
- APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- 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
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE (AUT)
- 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
- 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
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- 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
- SOCIAL EVOLUTION