BA (Hons) Modern Liberal Arts

This Modern Liberal Arts course encourages students to think philosophically across many subject boundaries in the humanities, the social and natural sciences, and the fine arts.

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BA (Hons) Modern Liberal Arts at University of Winchester

Modern Liberal Arts at Winchester retrieves and updates the oldest university curriculum in European higher education. Liberal arts education (Latin: liberalis, free, and ars, art or principled practice) involves students in thinking philosophically across many subject boundaries in the humanities, the social and natural sciences, and fine arts.

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SINGLE/COMBINED HONOURS

UCAS codes: V590 BA/MLArt

Typical offer: 280-320 points

International Baccalaureate: 26 points

Degree duration:
3 years full-time 6 years part-time

If English is not your first language:
IELTS 6.0 (including 6.0 in writing) or a TOEFL iBT score of 87 or equivalent

Course Enquiries and Applications
Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 827234
Email: course.enquiries@winchester.ac.uk

For Combined Honours UCAS codes and entry requirements

Programme Content

The degree combines compulsory modules covering art, religion, literature, science and the history of ideas with a wide range of optional modules. This enables students to have flexibility and control over their programme of study and the content of their assessments.

The core modules introduce students to some of the most profound questions concerning human existence from across a range of subject disciplines. The optional modules look at many aspects of liberal arts in detail, enabling students to pursue those they are most interested in. These modules, among other things, cover the Holocaust, ecology, the soul, religion(s), art, music, science, literature, education and philosophy. It is also possible, in certain cases, to take additional modules from other programmes.

Study on the programme draws on classical and modern texts, and from contemporary and popular culture, including film, music and art. In summary, a graduate in Modern Liberal Arts will have explored a vast range of profound and important ideas and concepts, unrestricted by academic subject boundaries. They will have read and reflected on many of the most influential texts in the Western tradition, and beyond, and presented their own conclusions both in writing and orally.

Modules

Year 1
• Introduction to Liberal Arts
• Broken Middle: First Principles
• Freedom (is to learn)
• Learning from the Renaissance

Year 2
• Broken Middle: Dialectic and the Arts
• Know Thyself
• Social and Political Thought
• Theorising Ecology

Year 3
• Broken Middle: The City
• Discipline and the Soul
• The Holocaust
• The Natural Universe

Careers

Graduates are particularly eligible for all humanities-based graduate-entry jobs. They will be practised in the important skills of written and oral communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and project management.

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