Liberal Arts (Ba): 6-Year, Part-Time

Birkbeck, University of London

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    6 Years

Human knowledge in the modern world is commonly divided into disciplines such as literature, art, history, politics and the sciences. The BA Liberal Arts embraces the different perspectives of these disciplines to help you gain deeper knowledge about the world and its interconnections. It allows you to design your own truly interdisciplinary programme according to your interests and strengths.

From a solid spine of critical skills modules taught in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing, you will branch out into a breadth of subjects in the Schools of Arts, Social Sciences, History and Philosophy and Law. You can choose from literature, theatre studies and creative writing, film and media, modern languages, art, history, geography, law and criminology, philosophy, politics and psychosocial studies, to build a degree which will fulfil your intellectual potential and develop your employability.

Employers highly value the core analytical, critical and communication skills a liberal arts degree will give you. It will also prepare you for further study at Master's or PhD level.

This course is also available for full-time evening study over three years or part-time evening study over four years.

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London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

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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 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.

Applicants are selected by application and may also be asked to provide a sample of written work or to attend an interview.

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Politics
  • Archaeology
  • Art History
  • Philosophy
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Theatre
  • Art
  • Global
  • Law
  • Writing
  • School
  • Part Time
  • Media
  • Poetry

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

In Year 1, you take a core and a compulsory module at Level 4.

In Year 2, you take two School of Arts or School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy option modules, both at Level 4.

In Year 3, you take a core module and choose one School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module, both at Level 5

In Year 4, you choose one option module from the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing and one School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module, both at Level 5.

In Year 5, you choose one option module from the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing and one School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module, both at Level 6.

In Year 6, you choose one Level 6 School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module. You also write a dissertation on a topic of your choice (7000 words).

MODULE GROUPS

YEAR 1 CORE AND COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Production of the Human: Decolonising the Canon
  • Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques
YEAR 3 CORE MODULE
  • Connecting the Arts
INDICATIVE ENGLISH, THEATRE AND CREATIVE WRITING OPTION MODULES
  • Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance
  • America Rewired: US Literature and Culture since the 1960s
  • American Centuries: Literatures of Slavery and Freedom
  • Blake
  • Critically Queer
  • Ecopoetics
  • Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Drama
  • Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Poetry
  • European Drama and Theatre: Gods, Ideas and Adaptations
  • Fin-De-Siecle
  • Finding a Leg to Stand On: Clinical, Critical and Creative Approaches to the Human Body
  • Flight Paths: Migration, Diaspora and Identity
  • Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
  • Literature and Cultural Identity: Intersectionalities of Race, Class and Gender
  • Literature and the Politics of Feelings
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • Literature, Empire and Race
  • Making the Medieval Human
  • Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
  • Medieval and Renaissance Literatures
  • Medieval Realms
  • Modernism and its Others
  • Narratives of the Body
  • Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I)
  • Poetry and Power: Text, Voice, Song
  • Poetry Workshop 1
  • Poetry Workshop 2: The Open Page
  • Reading 21st Century Fictions
  • Reading Literature
  • Responding to Animals: Adam to the Zoo
  • Romance
  • Romanticism: Reason, Revolution, Imagination
  • Science Fiction
  • Shakespeare
  • Telling the self
  • The Creative Critical Seam
  • The Cultural Production of Space
  • The Global Eighteenth Century
  • The Novel: Writing the Modern World
  • The Victorians and their World
  • Theatre Languages
  • Theories of Theatricality and Performance
  • Tragedy
  • Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
  • Writing London
INDICATIVE GEOGRAPHY OPTION MODULES
  • Anthropology of Space, Architecture and the Landscape (Level 6)
  • Critical Race Studies: Understanding Asian and Black Experiences in Britain
  • Culture and Development
  • European Society, Economy and Geography
  • Geographies of Revolt: Movements, Uprisings, and Social Transformation (Level 5)
  • Globalization in the Contemporary World
  • Material Culture, Consumption and the Construction of Self (Level 5)
  • Social Inequalities and Diversities
  • The Politics of Race and Diaspora
INDICATIVE HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY OPTION MODULES
  • Archaeology of the Everyday
  • Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
  • Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453 (level 5)
  • Britannia's Embrace: The British Empire and the World
  • Contested Nation: Germany, 1871-1918 (level 5)
  • Crime, Poverty and Protest in England and Beyond, 1500-1800
  • Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today
  • Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
  • From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries
  • Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context
  • Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918
  • Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture
  • Late Medieval and Early Modern London: Community, Politics and Religion
  • Literature, Culture and Society 1914-1945
  • Political and Social Change in the Middle East since 1918 (level 5)
  • Sexuality, Society and the State in Britain, 1914-2000
  • Space, Architecture and Landscapes of the Middle Ages
  • The Ancient World
  • The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
  • The Athenian Empire
  • The Colonial Gaze: Western Perceptions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1600-1960
  • The Contemporary World
  • The Early Modern World, 1500-1800: Reformations and Revolutions
  • The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans
  • The Modern World
  • The Reconstruction of Europe, 1945-1950 (level 5)
  • Work and Play in Early Modern Britain (level 5)
INDICATIVE HISTORY OF ART OPTION MODULES
  • Art and Society Between 1900 and the Present
  • Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century
  • Art History: A Survey
  • Debates in Art History
  • Impressionist Paris: Modernity and Difference
  • Post-War Art and the Politics of Memory, From the 1960s to the Present
  • The Immigrant Experience in Modern British Art
INDICATIVE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OPTION MODULES
  • French 1
  • Japanese 1
  • Reading Transnational Cultures
  • Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality
  • Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
  • The Latin American Novel
  • Understanding Culture: Language and Texts
INDICATIVE MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES OPTION MODULES
  • Cultural Identity and the Media
  • Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
  • Introduction to Cinema
  • Introduction to Digital Culture
  • Media, Technology and Culture
  • Memory, Media and Digital Culture
INDICATIVE POLITICS OPTION MODULES
  • British and comparative foreign policy analysis
  • Capitalism and the Politics of Markets
  • Challenges in Contemporary Politics
  • Comparative Studies of Islamist Movements
  • Contemporary British Politics
  • Europe After Brexit: Cooperation and Crises
  • Food, Politics and Society
  • Governing by Numbers
  • International Migration and Transnationalism
  • Introduction to Global Politics
  • Introduction to International Political Economy
  • Politics and the Arts (Level 6)
  • Politics and the Middle East
  • Politics, Power and Human Nature
  • Social and Political Theory
  • Surveying Political Research
  • The Politics of the Global Food System
  • The Rise of the Modern Food System
  • Transformations in Modern Politics: Democracy, Conflict and Globalisation
  • War and Modern Society
BA LIBERAL ARTS DISSERTATION
  • BA Liberal Arts Dissertation

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