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Liberal Arts (Full-time) (BA Hons)

Distance Learning
3 Years Full-time
96 - 112 UCAS Points

Liberal Arts is a flexible degree designed to allow you to develop, under the guidance of your personal tutor, a programme of study that reflects your personal interests.

The Liberal Arts degree is designed as a flexible interdisciplinary degree that allows students to develop a programme of study that reflects their personal interests. It allows each student to create a bespoke degree by selecting modules from the available options that might otherwise be bound by traditional subject boundaries. As such the programme offer provides a choice from every Humanities module available in any given year.

Course details

Start date:
Study modes:
  • Distance Learning
  • Full-time
Language:
  • English
Institution code:
T80
UCAS code:
HU01
Course length:
3 Years Full-time
Entry requirements:
96 - 112 UCAS Points

Tuition Fees 2023/24 and 24/25
Home (Full-time): £9,000 per year
Overseas (Full-time): £13,500 per year

Why choose this course?

01
Wide range of modules on relevant topics like the philosophy of mind, the history of genocide, or the literature of Western cultures.
02
Modules based on lecturers' distinctive research expertise.
03
Innovative immersive teaching in small groups and one-to-one tutorials.

What you will learn

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.

From the start, you obtain a broad understanding of the Humanities, from which you gradually sharpen your profile into a specialisation in your third year. In the third year, two strands of study are chosen.

It is those two specialised strands that are studied in depth and form your Bachelor’s degree. This gives students the possibility of a unique interdisciplinary study in the Humanities, creating the best correlation with the student’s professional interests and future job possibilities. Each student is free to choose the two strands which will comprise their Bachelor’s degree.

Prospective students should be aware of the following:

  • Not all optional modules are offered every year
  • Optional modules are delivered subject to sufficient student numbers
  • Language modules are optional/compulsory/core according to linguistic ability
  • There are many Level 5 and Level 6 versions of the same module. Students can only take this module once; this depends on which year the modules are offered in.

Compulsory

Academic Skills

(20 credits)

Optional 

Conflict and War: Theory, Ethics, Practice

(20 credits)

Age of Extremes: A World at War, c. 1914-1991

(20 credits)

'Pathways to Evil': Genocide - History, Theory and Denial

(20 credits)

Power and Inequality

(20 credits)

Introduction to Ethics

Year A

Optional 

Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare

(20 credits)

The Ethics of Violence
Britain and the Great War

(20 credits)

Crusading in the Middle Ages

(20 credits)

Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict

(20 credits)

Year B

Optional 

Cinema and War

(20 credits)

Civil Disobedience and the State

(20 credits)

Sun Tzu's Arts of War

(20 credits)

The Ethics of Life and Death

(20 credits)

Year A & B

Compulsory 

Dissertation

(60 credits)

Year A 

Optional

Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare

(20 credits)

The Ethics of Violence
Britain and the Great War

(20 credits)

Crusading in the Middle Ages

(20 credits)

Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict

(20 credits)

Year B

Optional

Cinema and War

(20 credits)

Civil Disobedience and the State

(20 credits)

Sun Tzu's Arts of War

(20 credits)

The Ethics of Life and Death

(20 credits)

Course disclaimer

  • We listen to student feedback and insights from industry and from professionals to ensure that course content is high-quality and up-to-date, and that it offers the best possible preparation for your future career or study goals. 

    For this reason, there might be modifications to the content of your course over time, to keep up to date with changes in the subject area or in the sector. If a module is no longer running, we’ll make sure to keep you informed, and work with you to choose a different suitable module.

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Staff

Our People

You will be taught and supported by a wide range of professional staff and teams here to help you get the university experience you are looking for. Our teaching staff were ranked 2nd in Wales for assessments and feedback (NSS 2023) meaning the comments you get back from your work will help you learn. Our commitment to your learning has seen our students us as Top 10 in the UK for Lecturers and Teaching Quality. Find out more about our academic staff who teach across our courses. 

Further information

  • Grades are important; however, our offers are not solely based on academic results. We are interested in creative people that demonstrate a strong commitment to their chosen subject area and therefore we welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds.

    To assess student suitability for their chosen course we normally arrange interviews for all applicants at which your skills, achievements and life experience will be considered as well as your qualifications.

  • The programme is assessed in a variety of ways and will include several of the following type of assessment: essays of 1,000 to 4,000 words in length, document analysis, book/ journal reviews, short reports and reflective journals, time tests, seen and unseen exams, field journals, posters, group and individual presentations, dissertations of 10,000 words, wikis, commentaries and film evaluations.

  • The Faculty has estimated on the assumption that students buy new copies of the books. Students may also choose to spend money on printing drafts of work.

    Students may spend up to £300 per year on books and additional related materials.

    Students are expected to submit two hard copies of their final project, the estimated cost for binding these is £20.

    Optional Field trip:

    The faculty works to ensure that there are a range of fieldwork and field trip options available both locally and internationally. Thus students can opt to take either more expensive or less expensive placements. The Faculty subsidises these but the cost each year is dependent on airfare, location, and currency exchange rates. Below are the upper end of expected costs based on where students have currently done placements.

    Fieldwork (depending on where a student decides to do fieldwork): c. £500 - £1,500

    Individual trips: c. £5 - £50

  • You may be eligible for funding to help support your study. To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available, please visit our Bursaries and Scholarships section.

  • 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

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