in Liberal Arts

Our Liberal Arts degree is an innovative, challenging and interdisciplinary programme designed for students seeking to pursue high-profile, competitive career-paths after graduation. The programme is specifically constructed to develop your intellectual and critical skills by engaging with the key issues and debates underpinning contemporary global communities – culturally, socially, politically, and economically.

Subjects studied include carefully designed modules exploring the nature of learning, critical thinking and intellectual enquiry, and cover a range of humanities and social sciences, as well as study of a language and the possibility of science modules. You’ll be taught the social and intellectual value of subjects as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, science, economics, theology and anthropology as much as you’ll be taught the specifics of each subject. The breadth of knowledge you will acquire will be complemented by in-depth learning in your chosen field of specialisation – your Major.

The programme is designed not only to develop you into an intellectually-engaged global citizen, but also to equip you with an impressive range of critical skills that will mark you out from the crowd and make you particularly attractive to employers. In addition, you’ll also be able to spend either a full year or half a year studying at one of our international partner institutions. You can further develop your employability potential by undertaking a work placement or a research internship that we can help you to secure, and by taking the optional fourth year of the programme, enabling you to extend your studies to gain an integrated Masters qualification.

Compulsory modules:

Academic requirements

Our academic requirements are expressed in terms of A levels or the International Baccalaureate; however the University recognises a large number of other overseas qualifications. Guidance on equivalencies, details of our local representatives, and information about where you can meet one of our staff can be found on the ‘Your Country’ section of our website, or contact the International Office.

English language requirements

• IELTS (Academic)

at least 6.5 overall and no less than 6.0 in the writing section and no less than 5.5 in any other section

• TOEFL IBT

at least 90 with minimum scores of 21 for writing, 21 for listening, 22 for reading and 23 for speaking

• Pearson Test of English (Academic)

58 with a minimum of 51 in all communicative skills