Programme Specification


Date Specification Approved 08/07/2024
College College Arts and Law
School Phil, Theology and Religion
Department Phil, Theol & Religion
Partner College and School
Collaborative Organisation and Form of Collaboration
Qualification and Programme Title B.A. Liberal Arts with Year Abroad Full-time
Programme Code 204J
Delivery Location Campus
Language of Study English
Length of Programme 4 Year(s)
Accreditations This programme has no outside accreditations
Aims of the Programme The Liberal Arts programmes has been developed to ensure our graduates possess a wide-ranging knowledge and understanding of issues across a range of disciplines in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences as well the option of developing in-depth expertise in one or more subject majors or minors. Following discussions with your advisor, a bespoke academic programme is constructed which reflects your skills and interests. The programme includes an optional intercalated year or year abroad at one of Birmingham’s leading partner institutions, giving you access to new cultures, methods of teaching and internship opportunities. A year abroad is required for students majoring in a modern foreign language.
Programme Outcomes
Students are expected to have Knowledge and Understanding of: Which will be gained through the following Teaching and Learning methods: and assessed using the following methods:
Students are expected to have a broad knowledge and understanding across a variety of disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
Students are expected to have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of their subject major or minor (where this option is chosen) and of interdisciplinary approaches
1) Lectures and seminars in: the core modules in years 1, & 2 and 3; a selection of modules from across the participating departments ; guided independent study.
2) By taking at least the subject content modules associated with the relevant Joint Honours or Natural Sciences pathway in the major or minor subject.
Exams, Essays, presentations and other coursework.
Students are expected to have attained the following Skills and other Attributes: Which will be gained through the following Teaching and Learning methods: and assessed using the following methods:
Ability to think critically, creatively and independently
Write, reason and communicate clearly
Ability to deploy transferable skills such as data literacy, digital skills, understanding of sustainability, entrepreneurship or thinking laterally across disciplines
The ability to undertake systematic investigation of key issues from a variety of academic disciplines, either alone or with others, drawing on the work of established experts in the field, and demonstrating the ability to acquire a broad and coherent knowledge of the topics, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects across a range of disciplines
Where relevant, a systematic understanding of key aspects of their major or minor field of study and of interdisciplinary study, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects of a discipline
An appreciation of the established techniques of analysis and enquiry across a range of disciplines and an ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry in at least one or more disciplines
conceptual understanding that enables the student: 􀁻 to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of interdisciplinary studies and, if chosen, their major discipline 􀁻 to describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, across disciplines and, if chosen, their major discipline
the ability to manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to a variety of disciplines.
The ability to apply generic, practical and interpersonal skills to studying abroad (optional – applies only where taken)
1-3 and 6) Lectures and seminars in the core and compulsory modules in years 1, 2 & 3; a selection of modules from across the Arts, Humanities, Law and Social Sciences; guided independent study
4, 7 and 8) Lectures and seminars in the core and compulsory modules in years 1, 2 & 32; a selection of modules from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; guided independent study; dissertation work and supervision.
5) (if chosen) through the pursuit of your subject major
9) Study abroad.
1-3, 5 and 6) Exams, Essays, presentations and other coursework
4, 7 and 8) Exams, Essays, presentations and other coursework, dissertation
9) Assessment undertaken at the host institution abroad