Liberal Arts With Foundation Year (Ba): 4-Year, Full-Time

Birkbeck, University of London

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

The BA Liberal Arts with Foundation Year is designed to prepare you for undergraduate study in the wide-range of subjects taught in the School of Arts. You will take two innovative study skills modules and further modules will introduce you to the many exciting ways in which we study the Arts. It is also possible to take a beginner- or intermediate-level language module (French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish) as part of the Foundation Year.

This programme allows you to build your confidence, gain core knowledge and key skills needed to succeed in undergraduate degrees in the Arts. You will get a taste of the specific subjects you are interested in and an understanding of their career potential.

Upon successful completion of the Foundation Year, you can progress on to our three-year, full-time, evening study BA Liberal Arts or one of the following three-year, full-time evening study undergraduate programmes:

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London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in education, public administration, legal work, business and management, the arts and creative industries, journalism and publishing, third sector and campaigning. This degree may also be useful in becoming an arts administrator, journal/newspaper editor, museum/gallery curator, higher education lecturer or community arts worker.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

Awarding Body
University of London

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  • Statistics
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  • Economics
  • Global
  • Finance
  • University
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Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

For the Foundation Year, you undertake three core modules and choose one option module: either The Arts: Questioning the Contemporary World or a language module.

If you successfully complete these modules, you will automatically advance on to our three-year, full-time, evening study BA Liberal Arts or you may transfer onto one of the undergraduate degrees listed above.

FOUNDATION YEAR CORE MODULES
  • Breaking Boundaries of Knowledge
  • Fundamentals of Study: Learning through the Global City
  • The Arts: Perspectives and Possibilities
FOUNDATION YEAR OPTION MODULES
  • French 1
  • French 2
  • French 3 (Level 4)
  • French 4 (Level 4)
  • German 1
  • German 2
  • German 3 (Level 4)
  • German 4 (Level 4)
  • Italian 1
  • Italian 2
  • Italian 3 (Level 4)
  • Italian 4 (Level 4)
  • Japanese 1
  • Japanese 2
  • Japanese 3 (Level 4)
  • Japanese 4 (Level 4)
  • Spanish 1
  • Spanish 2
  • Spanish 3 (Level 4)
  • Spanish 4 (Level 4)
  • The Arts: Questioning the Contemporary World
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

UCAS Code Y401

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