BALiberal Arts

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA
Course code	V900

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

More information	essex.ac.uk/..tercourse=UG00239&subgroup=1

Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

The Enlightenment
Co-Curricular Employability Module (Year 1)
Critical Reasoning and Logical Argument (optional)
Literature: Origins and Transformations (optional)
Europe: Myth and Idea (optional)
Introduction to Contemporary Latin America (optional)

Year 2

The World in Question: the Social, Political and Psychological Legacies of the Enlightenment
America: Centres and Margins, Borders and Boundaries (optional)
Brazil in Focus: Business, Culture and Society (optional)
United States Literature Since 1850 (optional)

Final year

Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism
Final Year Dissertation (optional)
Creative Writing: Oulipo and the Avant Garde (optional)
The Unconscious: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society – Freud (optional)
The Unconscious: Analytical Psychology, Culture and Society – Jung (optional)

Career opportunities

A Liberal Arts course can lead to a wide variety of careers in the media, journalism, publishing, local government, voluntary agencies, librarianship, finance, management and other fields. Many employers prefer to recruit students with a broad-based liberal arts education (and provide them with vocational training during their first year at work) than to recruit students who have specialised in one discipline.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of organisations including Euromoney, a financial publication company, a housing association, and an English language school in Japan.