Liberal Arts

Want to stretch your curiosity across the arts and humanities? Join us here at Bristol on our three-year BA Liberal Arts degree.

You'll be able to cultivate deep expertise in a subject of your choice, your pathway, while also having the freedom to explore subjects across the arts, humanities and languages. Combining breadth and depth, you'll make innovative connections between disciplines, and develop the rigorous creative and critical thinking tools you'll need to engage meaningfully with the fast-moving world around you.

In your first two years, at least a third of your learning takes place in your pathway subject. Alongside this, bespoke units provide the intellectual and practical foundations for interdisciplinary inquiry across the arts and humanities. You'll place pressing contemporary global issues in historical context, explore how data shapes the stories we tell, and study a modern or ancient language of your choice. Optional units from across the arts, humanities and languages offer further opportunities to broaden your studies.

In your final year, you'll complete a substantial interdisciplinary research project, alongside further pathway and optional units. Your final capstone unit on The Public Role of the Humanities equips you to make connections between your undergraduate training and the world beyond university.

If you are interested in a modern language pathway, do look into our MLibArts course. This four-year, integrated master's degree includes a year abroad. It's a brilliant chance to boost your language skills and develop your cultural knowledge. If going abroad isn't possible, you can still follow a modern language pathway on the three-year degree.