Liberal Arts BA (Hons)

The new BA in Liberal Arts is a programme of study for those with endless curiosity and a broad range of interests. Liberal Arts students can distribute their study broadly across the disciplines of the Humanities.

The interdisciplinary nature of this programme enables you to explore a wider range of thought forms and to develop skills tailored to your interests. Historical studies, cultural engagement and social advocacy, or theological and philosophical reasoning — the BA in Liberal Arts gives you the chance to do it all.

Course Overview

The BA in the Liberal Arts is a course designed to offer those students with a general interest in the Humanities a broad-based programme of study, that engages with a full breadth of Humanities subjects and disciplines rather than specialising in just one subject area.

The first two years of the degree programme are constituted by an innovative education model: two years of 'Basic Studies', which is a broad introduction to Humanities comprising modules from across the various Schools within the Faculty.

In these two years the student makes important choices about the course content to follow: through the choice of courses from the four strands of historical inquiry, cultural engagement, practical humanities and the human mind, the students decide to an extent on which areas of Humanities they wish to focus.

Career Opportunities

Graduates go on to careers in a variety of fields including:

• Communication, business
• Cultural and social advocacy
• Film and media
• Fundraising, management consultancy, research
• Health, food and lifestyle
• Human, animal and land rights
• International development, aid and charity organisations
• Museums, heritage, tourism
• Publishing
• Race relations, community, social work, caring professions
• Teaching