Liberal Arts BA (Hons)
A broad curriculum of ideas across subject boundaries integrated into a profound philosophical core.
- Undergraduate 3 year course (full time)
- Small group teaching
- Students take 8 modules each year, 4 in each semester
- The final degree classification is worked out on the best 14 modules over years 2 & 3
- Close reading of primary texts
- Discussion based approach
- Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Curriculum
‘a principle cast into a good mind bears fruit’
Pascal, Pensées
The interdisciplinary curriculum of our Liberal Arts degree integrates areas of study from across philosophy, natural sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences.
Over the three years of the programme the interdisciplinary curriculum includes material and research from the following subjects
| YEAR 1 | YEAR 2 | YEAR 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | Philosophy | Philosophy |
| Sociology | Race (Politics) | Post Truth Culture |
| History | Sociology | Gender (Politics) |
| Art | History | Climate Change |
| Religion | Art | Education |
| Poetry | Feminism | Art |
| Literature | Education | Power |
| Film | Science | Religion |
| Tragedy | Eastern Literature | Technology |
| Cosmology | Classical Civilisation | Human Nature |
Liberal Arts Subjects & Categories
And within these subjects we explore a broad array of ideas including
| Philosophical | Historic | Classical | Sociological | Scientific | Artistic | Educational |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truth | Antiquity | Tragedy | Class | Quadrivium | Film | Paideia |
| God | Middle Ages | Rhetoric | Alienation | Cosmos | Architecture | Pedagogy |
| Identity | The Renaissance | Poetry | Commodities | Relativity | Painting | Teaching |
| Consciousness | The Reformation | Liberal Arts | Surveillance | Classical | Performance | Learning |
| Morality | The Enlightenment | Humanism | Objectification | Quantum | Literature | Studying |
| Equality | Abbasid Caliphate | Comedy | Power | Technology | Music | Soul/Intellect |
| Freedom | The Holocaust (Shoah) | Paideia | Prejudice | Atomic | Story | Embodiment |
| Nature | Middle Ages | Athens & Rome | Poverty | Climate Change | Theatre | Mimesis |
| Religions | French Revolution | Barbarians & Others | Post-modernism | Extinction | Creativity | Recollection |
Liberal Arts Student Testimonial
Liberal Arts at Winchester university with its smaller groups and its focus on discussion provides the perfect place to think and ask the questions which matter to me, to you, to us. No piece of text is deemed too difficult and as a group we read together. Our questions and discussions form the content in each seminar. There are no expectations that students will have already read or understood the text. Moreover, through the sharing of ideas a deep understanding emerges. I have had the freedom to study a range of subjects within the course such as: Film and Philosophy, Religious art, Aesthetics, Music and Tragedy to name just a few. Because of this, I have been exposed to texts and experiences that, I feel, would not have been available to me had I have chosen a degree specialising in just one subject. With such freedoms comes discipline. As liberal arts students, we learn to be disciplined through set questions, deadlines and, in some cases, the texts and readings we use. — Claire Rogers, Liberal Arts Graduate, 2018