Liberal Arts and Sciences

UCAS code: V900

Here's what University of Aberdeen says about its Liberal Arts and Sciences course.

Design your own degree pathway with the MA Liberal Arts and Sciences, an interdisciplinary degree that integrates courses across a breadth of subject areas.

The Liberal Arts and Sciences Programme is an interdisciplinary learning pathway that allows self-motivated, curious, intellectually curious students to design their own degree pathway through university-level study. It is centred around exploring and integrating a wide breadth of courses, encompassing the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Core courses for the degree are rooted in the School of Geosciences, where research and teaching spans archaeology, geography, geology, and planetary sciences. In addition to these core courses, students will select modules from other disciplines across the University at every level of study. Selecting optional courses across various disciplines allow our students to explore additional subjects of relevance to their individual learning goals, across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

At honours level, students will select a dissertation advisor within the School of Geosciences and will be encouraged to draw literature and methods from other fields and from co-advisors (where appropriate) in other departments, based on their own distinct learning objectives.

This programme is at the leading edge of interdisciplinary teaching which allows more bespoke, student-orientated approaches to higher education.

View all modules on the programme page to find out more about what you will be studying and when. University of Aberdeen modules are designed to give you breadth and depth to your degree. The range of modules you study will allow you to become proficient in all subjects which are directly relevant to your degree giving you greater career options.

The use of various forms of assessment and learning environments facilitates the development of generic transferable skills enhancing student employability.

Students are assessed by any combination of three assessment methods: coursework such as essays and reports completed throughout the course; practical assessments of the skills and competencies they learn on the course; and written examinations at the end of each course. The exact mix of these methods differs between subject areas, years of study and individual courses.

Honours projects are typically assessed on the basis of a written dissertation.