Liberal Arts Course

Hi , would love to hear of anyone that has found a brilliant Lib Arts course. Especially one where you have a wide choice in Year 1 and then narrow down from Year 2 . Or anyone that has completed a Liberal Arts course with any experience and where they are now ?

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MumofAleveller

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My daughter has applied for Liberal Arts (though chose Combined Honours in Social Science) at Durham, but applied for Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and Exeter. The one with the greatest flexibility I thought was Nottingham, listening to the presentation on the offer holders day.

Birmingham is interesting also as it's Liberal Arts and Science and has a wide range of courses. From my understanding you can pretty much pick modules from any courses other than medicine and engineering. It's a 4 year course with a study year abroad.

Birmingham's offering seems quite unique - the only other one offering Liberal Arts and Science seems to be UCL.

My daughter hasn't firmed anything yet - she was thinking of firming Durham (A*AA) and insuring Birmingham (AAA) but Birmingham muddied the water by recently offering her AAB if she firms them.
Are you applying next year?

My eldest daughter is a first year at Birmingham doing Psychology but went along to the offer holder's day with her younger sister and now wants to swap onto the Liberal Arts and Science program at Birmingham as she was so impressed.

Reply 2

Durham Rep Ghala

Official Rep

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Original post by Clare123123

Hi , would love to hear of anyone that has found a brilliant Lib Arts course. Especially one where you have a wide choice in Year 1 and then narrow down from Year 2 . Or anyone that has completed a Liberal Arts course with any experience and where they are now ?

Hiya,

I've attached a link to the module handbook for Liberal Arts if you'd like to have a read through the different modules offered in each year of the course and what they are about 🙂
Module Handbook

Hope this helps!

-Ghala

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mimiskinao

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I’m not a current student but i’m an offer holder & been to 2 open days but I think KCL offers Liberal arts that fits this well !! you can even choose in third year I think lol

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FinnRussellLIS

Official Rep

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Hi,

I think I'd describe the BASc course that I'm on at London Interdisciplinary School as frankly brilliant. I was a Liberal Arts and Sciences student at Birmingham but dropped out as it wasn't the place for me. I then joined LIS and don't regret it one bit. RE: choosing what you want, the course is like a liberal arts course, but focused around using qual and quant methods (things like ethnography, cultural probes, interviews, data science, or NLP, etc.) to solve problems. Right from first year you can choose the problems that you are applying the methods to. I often lean into IR related issues (Aid distribution in Afghanistan, China in Africa, etc.) but other students have focused on obesity, urban living, chicken farming in the river Wye, and everything in between. It's very flexible and you can really follow your interests as they change throughout the course. I say all this because I was hesitant to go somewhere so new but am so pleased I chose to come.

The first cohort has just graduated and we have students at Goldman Sachs, going in to design consultancy, signals intelligence, working on startups they founded while at the uni, and more. You can find out about the uni here, and find our clearing page here.

I hope that helps! :fluffy:

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emi1321

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Original post by Clare123123

Hi , would love to hear of anyone that has found a brilliant Lib Arts course. Especially one where you have a wide choice in Year 1 and then narrow down from Year 2 . Or anyone that has completed a Liberal Arts course with any experience and where they are now ?

hi! I was wondering if anyone knew if, as a part of the Durham Liberal Arts, I would be able to take a placement year in a finance/ economics field (even though this is a social science and therefore that subject wouldn't make up the main part of my degree?). would that matter? thanks so much if anyone knows or if anyone could offer any insights! 🙂

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Voxdei

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Original post by Clare123123

Hi , would love to hear of anyone that has found a brilliant Lib Arts course. Especially one where you have a wide choice in Year 1 and then narrow down from Year 2 . Or anyone that has completed a Liberal Arts course with any experience and where they are now ?

Go to Mount Holyoke College, USA, one of the original Seven Sisters college (not on the Victoria line).

Liberal Arts Course

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