Liberal Arts
Postgraduate
In Leeds
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Leeds
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Different dates available
This exciting and challenging interdisciplinary degree offers flexibility, with intellectual depth and diversity.
You choose a “major” in a humanities or social science subject – examples include English, History, Music, Theatre and Performance, Philosophy, Politics, and Religious Studies. This strand of the course gives you intellectual depth.
You also take a bundle of modules from three out of seven broad topic areas: Literature and the Visual Arts; Society and Politics; Performance, Theatre and Music; the Digital World; Living Histories and Heritage; Learning a Language; and Ethics, Science and Religion. This strand enables you to follow your interests across a wide range of subject areas, and teaches you skills of cross-disciplinary inquiry.
The programme also provides opportunities for engagement with external partners such as businesses, museums and charities. It is a fantastic opportunity to combine intellectual rigour with wide-ranging skills of the kind that employers prize.
Specialist resources
The world class Brotherton Library holds a wide variety of manuscript, archive and early printed material in its Special Collections– valuable assets for your independent research. Our additional library resources are also excellent, and the University Library offers a comprehensive training programme to help you make the most of them.
If you choose to study a language as part of your Liberal Arts degree, our fully equipped Language Centre, including digital language labs, audio/video practice booths and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). You can use our Electronic Resource Information Centre, which features specialised computing facilities for translation studies, and Interpreter Training Suites offering you the chance to explore a career in interpreting.
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Entry requirements
A-level: AAA excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking.
Other course specific tests:
When an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be AAB at A Level (excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking) and grade A in the EPQ.
We welcome applications from mature students with Access qualifications, and from students with a wide range of qualifications.
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Subjects
- Politics
- Theatre
- Project
- Music
Course programme
In your first year you’ll spend a third of your time being introduced to the key concepts, approaches and methods of your “major”, which you can choose from a broad range of subjects. In addition, you choose optional modules from three of seven broadly defined topic areas, and you take a core module on the Liberal Arts approach that gives you a training in the skills of cross-disciplinary enquiry and teaches you how to communicate effectively with diverse audiences.
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You’ll build on this foundation in the following year, when half of the modules you study are in your major subject. You’ll then choose modules from two of the seven topic strands, usually related to your earlier choices, and you’ll undertake a research placement which includes the option of working with external organisations.
The critical, analytical and research skills you acquire during the degree will be highly developed by the final year. You’ll showcase them when you undertake an independent research project, using your interdisciplinary skills to explore a question of your choice. You’ll also take a module in your chosen topic, and give half of your time to your major.
After the third year, you can choose to spend another year at Leeds to complete the Integrated MA in Liberal Arts, combining an independent project with advanced study in your major and one topic area.
Course structureThese are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.
Modules Year 1
Follow the link to the Programme Catalogue to see examples of modules you could study.
Compulsory modules- Introducing Liberal Arts 20 credits
Examples of the optional modules available are shown below. Please contact us for more details of the requirements and choices available.
- Whose Past and Which Future? Exploring Living Histories and Heritage Today 20 credits
- Vision and Narrative: Literature and the Visual Arts 20 credits
- Exploring the Digital World 20 credits
- Performance, Theatre and Music: interdisciplinary approaches 20 credits
- Visions of Humanity: Philosophical, Religious and Scientific Perspectives 20 credits
- Politics and Social Transformation 20 credits
Compulsory modules
- Research Placement 20 credits
Examples of the optional modules available are shown below. Please contact us for more details of the requirements and choices available.
- The New York School 20 credits
- Technology in Communication and Media 20 credits
- The Digital Professional 20 credits
- Thinking about History 20 credits
- Music, Culture, Politics: the Sixties 20 credits
- Justice, Community and Conflict 20 credits
Compulsory modules
- Independent Research Project in Liberal Arts 40 credits
Examples of the optional modules available are shown below. Please contact us for more details of the requirements and choices available.
- Humanity, Animality and Globality 20 credits
- Citizen Media 20 credits
- AutobioGraphics 20 credits
- Contested Cities 20 credits
- Citizenship, Identity and Social Change 20 credits
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