Arts and Sciences BASc

University College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 15 or 30 credits, adding up to a total of 120 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
The programme offers a wide combination of specialist modules and an interdisciplinary core. The core modules enable you to acquire the skills and concepts you will need to work effectively across multiple disciplines. They link traditional UCL subjects in new ways, and explore the conceptual and methodological differences between arts and science subjects.
You will study a modern foreign language throughout your degree and you can also undertake an internship, giving you the chance to integrate your studies with your future aspirations.
Possible internships include businesses, non-government organisations and voluntary organisations. Our students have achieved internships with, for example, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Norton Rose Fulbright, the UN, Reuters, the Wellcome Trust, Horniman Museum and Gardens and many other organisations and businesses.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

UCL's Arts and Sciences programmes allow you to create a bespoke programme, incorporating both arts and science specialisms.
Responding to increased demand from employers for outstanding graduates with cross-disciplinary experience, these degrees will equip you with knowledge, skills and insight across arts and sciences subjects.
Core modules will enhance your understanding of how different branches of knowledge interrelate. You will also undertake an internship, giving you the chance to explore future employment options.
You will study a modern foreign language throughout your degree, chosen from the wide range offered at UCL.

On graduation, you will have at least two academic specialisms, strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to work flexibly and creatively across a range of fields.
The Arts and Sciences programmes are designed to prepare students for a wide variety of contemporary careers and research.
Arts and Sciences graduates have become employed in investment banking (American Express, Goldman Sachs), the civil service (Treasury), law (Norton Rose), actuarial work (Towers Watson) and gone on to further Master's and PhD study in subjects including environmental techonology, global politics, law, management science, modern culture (literature), paelaeobiology and sociology.

English Language and Mathematics at grade B or 6. For UK-based students, a grade C or 5 or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required.

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Subjects

  • Mathematical
  • Nterdisciplinary Research
  • Methods Quantitative
  • Pathways
  • Engineering Societies
  • Engineering
  • Societies
  • Environment Sciences
  • Collections Quantitative
  • Economy

Course programme

YEAR 1

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Introduction to Interdisciplinarity
  • Interdisciplinary Research Methods
  • Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Thinking
  • Language
Pathways
  • Cultures
  • Health and Environment
  • Sciences and Engineering
  • Societies

You will choose three optional modules from your major pathway and one optional module from your minor pathway. Students choosing Cultures or Societies as their major must choose Health and Environment or Sciences and Engineering as their minor pathway, and vice versa. This will ensure that you study a mix of arts and sciences modules throughout the programme.

YEAR 2

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Object Lessons: Communicating Knowledge through Collections
  • Quantitative Methods 2: Data Science and Visualisation
  • Making Value Judgements: Qualitative Thinking
  • Language
  • Interdisciplinary Elective (choice of 1 or 2)
Pathways

You will choose your remaining modules from your major parthway and your minor pathway.

YEAR 3

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • The Knowledge Economy (team-based consultancy project)
  • Language
  • Dissertation
Pathways

You will choose your remaining modules from your major parthway and your minor pathway.

Your learning

You will be exposed to a wide range of learning opportunities, including lectures, seminars, tutorials, interactive groups and multimedia projects. Core modules will be taken alongside your fellow BASc students. Modules relating to your pathway subjects will be taught by specialist staff from across UCL and will provide you with an opportunity to learn alongside students on other programmes.

Assessment

Both your pathway subjects and the language component will be assessed by written examinations and essays. Project work and a dissertation will contribute to your overall assessment. You will be required to give presentations, work on group projects and multimedia projects and participate in assessed debates.

Additional information

Overseas students Fee - £21,050 (2018/19)

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