Liberal Arts

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Liberal Arts

DEGREES

BA Liberal Arts

BA Liberal Arts (with an Integrated Foundation Year)** BA Liberal Arts with an International Year

BA Liberal Arts with a Language Year Abroad UCAS code Duration Integrated year abroad

International Baccalaureate* A-levels Y000 3 years 6,5,5 AAB-ABB Y00F 4 years 4,4,4 CCC Y001 4 years  6,5,5 AAB-ABB

Y002 4 years  6,5,5 AAB-ABB

* Required Higher level grades with a minimum of 32 points overall. ** For information about the Integrated Foundation Year visit royalholloway.ac.uk/foundationyear We welcome students with a broad range of qualifi cations; see p.130-131.

OPTIONAL PLACEMENT YEAR All undergraduates have the opportunity to apply to take an additional Placement Year, which can be spent studying abroad, working, carrying out voluntary work or a combination of all three. See p.36 for more information.

Heading Liberal Arts at Royal Holloway • Single degree bullet Liberal Arts is an internationally-recognised approach to study that will prepare you for life in our rapidly changing world. With an emphasis on teamwork alongside individual development, our courses will equip you with skills of critical thinking, creativity and adaptability, through your study of a wider range of areas than is usually possible in a single or joint honours degree. Royal Holloway was one of the fi rst universities in this country to off er this highly-prized yet rarely available degree, ideal for students who are creative and inquisitive with a wide range of interests. You will work with your Personal Tutor to design your own course that is tailored to your own interests as your degree progresses.

Pediment on the Founder’s Building showing our long history of teaching the liberal arts

CORE MODULES

DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR LIBERAL ARTS

STUDENTS 100%

SAY STAFF HAVE MADE THE SUBJECT INTERESTING

of our graduates are (National Student Survey, 2020)

employed or go onto

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BA Liberal Arts

Y000 Create a bespoke course suiting your own developing interests and passions. Choose options from a vast range of subjects across the arts, humanities and social sciences, alongside core modules that enable you to connect with fellow Liberal Arts students and provide you with a strong skills foundation for all your studies.

Example modules

• Liberal Arts 1: cultural encounters • Introduction to criminology • 20th-century leaders of the non-western world • Literature, the digital and the creative industries • Introduction to abnormal psychology

Key features

• Ideal for creative and inquisitive students who have a wide range of interests. • Study a language – beginner’s or advanced – for one, two or three years. • An internationally prestigious degree. • Choose a broad or concentrated focus for your studies. • Develop your curriculum with your Personal Tutor.

BA Liberal Arts with an International Year Y001 or with a Language Year Abroad Y002

This degree is truly interdisciplinary, combining the fl exibility of a Liberal Arts degree with the global perspective of spending a year studying in English at an international partner university.

Example modules

• Liberal Arts 2: power and dissent • Introduction to modern philosophy • Contemporary debates in music • Theatre and ideas • Liberal Arts 3: dissertation

Key features

• Partnerships with prestigious international universities where you study in English (Y001) or in a language you are studying (Y002). • Explore diff erent disciplines and bring them into conversation with each other. • Lay strong foundations with core modules in Liberal Arts. • Develop critical thinking, creativity and adaptability.

Example modules shown are indicative of current choices across all years of the degree, and may not be available every year. Please check website for up-to-date information on these and all other degree courses in Liberal Arts.

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Find your why...

“Staff voice text/” My why is to work creatively across Name disciplines. Course “I’m a linguist, I work in French, across literature Statement text and visual arts and I’m particularly interested in the historical avant-garde of the early 20th century – Dada and surrealism. I recently ran a workshop at Tate Exchange in London where we invited students from the university, school students and members of the public to participate in making their own collages and chance poems – it was a really great day to get people involved in creative practice. Liberal Arts is a course that allows students to pursue lots of diff erent interests. Students aren’t confi ned to certain disciplines, they’re encouraged to think across boundaries, think across disciplines and make connections. I use my own research in my teaching as much as I can and also learn from my students. I’m very keen on students giving presentations and doing their own research. It’s defi nitely a dialogue and we have a lot of fun in classes making discoveries together. For me it’s not a question of delivering content, it’s much more about critical thinking, having discussions and debates and not feeling that one has to be bound, but being able to think about big questions.” Ruth Hemus Senior Lecturer in French and Visual Arts