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Liberal Arts with Integrated Foundation Year

Entry requirements


Access to Higher Education Diploma – Overall Pass with a minimum of 48 Level 3 credits

About this course


Course option

4years

Full-time including foundation year | 2024

Subject

Liberal arts

The BA Liberal Arts with Integrated Foundation Year combines a three-year degree in Liberal Arts (or a four-year degree including a year abroad) with a bespoke foundation year, providing a pathway for students not currently eligible for entry to a three year degree programme.

The subject content and teaching methodology employed in the foundation year (Year 0) builds a skills set and provides a platform for successful participation over the remainder of the programme. It will include modules in Study Skills as well as an independent study project; a range of subject-specific foundation modules are also offered in each semester to introduce students to disciplines represented in Liberal Arts, including English and Comparative Literature, Film Studies, History and Human Geography.

After successful completion of the Foundation Year, students will progress onto Level 4 (Year 1) of their degree in Liberal Arts.

The BA Liberal Arts degree offers you a unique multi-disciplinary education at central London’s only campus-based university, situated in one of London’s most diverse and dynamic areas. The programme combines an innovative and research-driven curriculum grounded within the distinct, established areas of academic specialisation and excellence found within the constituent schools of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The programme is organised around Liberal Arts compulsory modules and seminars in the first and second years, and culminates in a unique research project drawing on expert supervision: for those that do not meet the entrance criteria, a foundation year, year 0, is available, prior to the first developmental year. The programme provides distinct tracks or ‘majors’ that facilitate greater flexibility in module choice and a broader basis than in degrees in single or joint subjects, alongside the development of an intellectual and disciplinary focus as you progress through your degree. You will benefit from engaging with a range of subjects from different disciplinary perspectives, including the study of a foreign language during your first year (whether as a beginner or building on existing competence) this is the second year for those who take the foundation year. As well as practical language study, covering the productive skills of speaking and writing as well as the receptive skills of listening and reading, you will work on related aspects of literature, culture, history, society and linguistics, both through a compulsory interdisciplinary module which is closely aligned to the language programme and through option modules in any of these areas.

Modules

The modules offered will be dependent upon the major and minor track chosen. Within your first year of BA study (second year for foundation students), students will study across all tracks and be supported by an academic advisor to select the best major and minor routes for their following years. The below provides an indicative list of what you may study within each of the tracks.

YEAR 1
All routes

30 credits Language (current choice is between French, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese)
30 credits Liberal Arts compulsory module Culture and Language
15 credits option from Global Cultures:
Geography in the World
Cities and Regions in Transition
Global Worlds
Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
Building the American Nation:1776-1896
Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
Europe in a Global Context since 1800
Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
Screening History: Representing the past in the Contemporary Historical Film 
London/Culture/Performance
London Global
Myth, Modernity and Metamorphoses
Understanding Culture: Exploring the Big Questions
Introduction to Comparison
Brief Encounters: Around the World in Short Stories
US Cinema: Key Concepts
Introduction to International Relations
Global Histories

15 credits option from any of the three tracks
15 credits Discovery module
Language and Culture Theme electives:
Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
Europe in a Global Context since 1800
Postcolonial Francospheres: Memories of colonialism un the French-Speaking World
Picturing a Nation: France and its image from Marianne to #JesuisCharlie
Catalan Culture: Art, Literature and Football
Men, Women and Song: Love Poetry in the Middle Ages
German Play
Germany Today
Austria Today
Language in the UK
Foundations of Language
Typology I: Languages of the World
Rio de Janeiro on the Global Stage and Imaginary
Contemporary Russian Short Stories
History of Russian
Russian Language Play
Reading Contemporary Russian
Deconstructing 'China' in the Western Imagination
Chinese Short Fiction

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Assessment methods

Assessment is varied and will take a number of forms within the programme, typically a combination of written exams and coursework, final-year dissertations, and independent projects.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

England
£9,250
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Queen Mary University of London

Department:

Languages, Linguistics and Film

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84%
UK students
16%
International students
61%
Male students
39%
Female students
86%
2:1 or above
9%
First year drop out rate

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Top job areas of graduates

23%
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17%
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16%
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