Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts (BA)

BA Liberal Arts is a degree for curious minds. If you’re passionate about several subjects, want to try new directions or don’t want to specialise, this flexible course lets you build a degree as individual as you are.

How can working across disciplines like the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences help us understand and thrive in a fast-changing world? You’ll develop valuable skills by exploring important issues from a wide range of different perspectives.

Core modules help you think creatively and strategically as you discuss how to tackle ‘real-life’ challenges such as global identity politics, food insecurity and AI. Optional modules let you tailor your learning, ranging from media arts, creative writing, film and literature to law, international relations, psychology and more. You can also choose a year abroad, a foundation year or a language year.

Shape your own degree

• Build critical agility and cultural fluency relevant to a huge range of current and future career paths

• Gain life skills by exploring real-world issues, studying abroad or learning a new language

• Get personal academic and career support and be part of a diverse and welcoming community

A future shaped by you

Graduates go on to a broad range of careers across law, publishing, media, marketing, tech, the arts and beyond. Employers value Liberal Arts graduates for their adaptability, insight and ability to connect big ideas in new ways.

• Ideal for creative and inquisitive students who have a wide range of interests.

• Study a language – beginners’ or advanced – for one, two or three years.

• An internationally prestigious degree.

• Choose a broad or concentrated focus for your studies.

• Develop your curriculum with your Personal Tutor.

We sometimes make changes to our courses to improve your experience. If this happens, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.

Course Modules

Core Modules

Year 1

• Critical and Cultural Encounters

Year 2

• Power, Society and Cultural Practice

Year 3

• LAXXX Individual Interdisciplinary Project

Please refer to our website for information for optional course modules: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/undergraduate/liberal-arts/liberal-arts/

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/undergraduate/liberal-arts/liberal-arts/

• The course has a modular structure. You will take 120 credits’ worth of modules each year.

• You will take the equivalent of four units each year. These will be drawn from a variety of departments, and so the teaching and assessment methods will vary widely, depending upon your own choices.

• In most cases, you will be taught by a mixture of lectures, seminars, and small group tutorials.

• In all these cases, your learning will be informed by your own independent research.

• You will be supported in your studies by a Personal Tutor, who will be available to discuss your progress and to provide advice on all academic matters.

• You will also have access to your instructors for more specific advice about courses.

• Assessment methods will include essays, reports, oral presentations, texts, projects, and examinations.

• In your final year, you will write a dissertation, a long essay based on your own, independent research, which will be up to 8,000 words in length.

• You will also take a study skills module during your first year, designed to equip you with and enhance the writing skills you will need to be successful in your degree. This module does not count towards your final degree award but you are required to pass it to progress to your second year.