The BA (Hons) in Arts degree is a contemporary version of a traditional arts programme offering an attractive and useful combination of broad humanistic education, significant subject specialisation and a practical focus on the development of key skills and competencies transferable to a broad range of future educational and career-related options. At the core of the programme lie six elective subject streams from which you choose your study options and which take you from an introductory level encounter with the essential concerns and methodologies of an academic discipline through to an exploration of its contemporary condition and limits Alongside this lie a series of core mandatory modules which are dedicated to building your academic skills and competence and which broadly link your specialised learning and development to a critical understanding of the world around us and to the opportunities it offers on graduation from the programme. The programme is therefore designed to cater for a very broad range of interests, needs and ambitions. It will appeal equally to those with an existing interest or passion for particular arts or social sciences disciplines and to those in search of new interests or directions for the future; in either case, students will receive a very good general education that will significantly enhance their knowledge, understanding, intellectual sophistication and career possibilities.

The course will be of use to those interested in pursuing a career in any area of work that requires high order skills of written expression, oral presentation, and conceptual and critical analysis. It is good preparation for working in education, the arts, the media industries, library and information work, and business. Graduates from the programme are currently working in the film, radio and theatre industries, teaching, lecturing, advertising, business, the health services, government, the media and a range of other areas. The course also has an excellent record of inspiring students to go on to further study, with progression onto masters programmes in related subject areas being one of the most popular choices with our graduates.