BA Liberal Arts

About this course

BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary programme spanning arts, humanities, and social sciences. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The programme follows a major-minor structure, with the option to build a minor pathway in Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, or Sciences.

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Institution

University of East Anglia

Level

undergraduate

Subject

Liberal Arts

Duration

3 years

UCAS code

Y000

Typical offer

A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB

What students say

Based on about 8 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)

• Teaching on my course: 75%
• Learning opportunities: 70%
• Assessment and feedback: 70%
• Academic support: 85%
• Organisation and management: 50%
• Learning resources: 80%
• Student voice: 67%

Do students stay on the course?

Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)

• Continued on course: 60%
• Left higher education: 35%
• Moved to a lower qualification: 5%

Who gets in

Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)

• A levels: 90%
• Baccalaureate: 10%

Accreditation & quality ratings

TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.

Modules

• WAYS TO KNOWLEDGE: DISCIPLINES AND PRACTICES
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
• INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
• REASONING AND LOGIC
• POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
• CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
• DIGITAL MEDIA: CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES & CULTURES
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
• NEW FORMS: WRITING AND COLLABORATION IN THE AGE OF AI
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
• INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MODERN HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES I
• UNDERSTANDING POLITICS TODAY: APPROACHES, ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES
• RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
• THEORISING MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
• MAKING MEDIA HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
• INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL HISTORY
• ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGY
• TELEVISION HISTORY
• WORLD CINEMAS
• VISUAL(ISING) HISTORY
• THE AGE OF EXTREMES: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1914
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY AND POLITICS
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
• GALLERIES & MUSEUMS: HISTORIES/POLITICS/ETHICS
• LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY
• MEDIA INDUSTRIES
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
• SPANISH YEAR 1 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• WORKING IN THE THEATRE 1: INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL THEATRE
• PEOPLE AND CULTURES
• INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
• FRENCH YEAR 1 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
• INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
• WORKING IN THE THEATRE 2: DEVELOPING PRODUCTION SKILLS
• JAPANESE YEAR 1 (SPRING SEMESTER)
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
• BECOMING A CRITIC
• WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
• INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
• BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
• CREATIVE WRITING: BEGINNINGS
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
• GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
• ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE
• MEDIA REPRESENTATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
• DOING HISTORY
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
• DOING FILM HISTORY
• ANALYSING TELEVISION
• THE ACTOR'S CRAFT
• THE MEANING OF LIFE
• GLOBAL THEATRES
• INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES II
• JAPANESE YEAR 1 (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
• WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
• THE CATASTROPHIC FOURTEENTH CENTURY
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
• EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
• SPANISH YEAR 1 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
• FRENCH YEAR 1 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• COLLABORATIVE THEATRE-MAKING
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
• ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
• READING NOW
• WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
• EXPLORING PERFORMANCE
• ANALYSING FILM
• PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY
• MAKERS AND MAKING
• UNDERSTANDING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
• APPLIED BUSINESS PROJECT
• APPLIED SOCIAL THEORY
• THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT: THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY
• PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• PROGRAMMING 1
• CHEMISTRY OF THE CARBON-BASED COMPOUNDS
• EVOLUTION, BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY
• LIVING PLANET
• RESEARCH SKILLS IN BIOCHEMISTRY
• DATABASE SYSTEMS
• SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
• DIVERSITY OF LIFE
• BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN PRACTICE
• KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE AND PROOF FOR SECOND YEARS
• ETHICS FOR SECOND YEARS
• VICTORIAN WRITING
• SCRIPTWRITING: SCREEN AND STAGE
• THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
• INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
• THEORISING TELEVISION: FROM BROADCASTING TO STREAMING
• INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
• WRITING IN THE WORLD: PLACEMENTS, PODCASTS, CREATIVE NON FICTION
• APPLIED DRAMA AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
• ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
• LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
• JAPANESE YEAR 2 (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• SCREENWRITING
• FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
• SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
• EUROPEAN LITERATURE
• ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
• KEY CONCEPTS IN FILM THEORY
• ADAPTATION: CROSS-MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS
• SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
• LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD
• NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
• THE LIVES OF ARTWORKS
• FILMMAKING AND MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
• POPULAR MUSIC AND MEDIA
• PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
• POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
• AMERICA IN THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (SPR)
• GLOBAL COMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE
• CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
• ALGORITHMS & BLOCKBUSTERS: THE MAKING OF MEDIA AND CULTURAL POLICY
• LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
• SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
• GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
• TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY (LEVEL 5)
• THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
• POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
• INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
• POLITICS IN THE USA
• U.S. EMPIRE
• RELIGION AND WORLD PHILOSOPHIES FOR SECOND YEARS
• BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
• THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD 300-1000
• THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
• TEENAGE KICKS: DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE
• SCENOGRAPHY, DESIGN AND TECHNICAL THEATRE
• PROPAGANDA
• FRENCH YEAR 2 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
• THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (AUT)
• ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
• LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
• PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
• GENDER AND POWER
• FROM STUDIOS TO THE DIGITAL ERA: HOLLYWOOD AS GLOBAL INDUSTRY
• JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
• SCRIPTWRITING: TV/FILM
• LIBERAL ARTS SEMESTER ABROAD
• DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
• FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
• SPANISH YEAR 2 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• FACTUAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
• MATERIAL WORLDS
• COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
• GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
• MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
• POPULAR THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
• APPROACHES AND PRACTICE IN DIGITAL MEDIA
• ARTISTS/MUSEUMS
• ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING
• DEVISED THEATRE
• NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND
• PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE ARTS (SECOND YEAR MODULE)
• SCRIPTWRITING: STAGE/AUDIO
• ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
• ADVANCED ENGLISH II - B2 CEFR
• STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
• INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
• HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
• STUDYING AUDIENCES
• POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY
• ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
• READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
• LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
• HISTORY'S STORIES
• TRANSLATION AND MEDIA IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (LEVEL 5)
• EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
• THE POWER PARADOX: AUTHORITY, FREEDOM, AND CONFLICT IN MODERN SOCIETY
• FILM GENRES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
• TUDOR ENGLAND
• THE ACTOR'S WORK
• STUART ENGLAND
• INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - B1 CEFR
• DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
• APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONS
• INCLUSIVE CHILDHOOD; SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
• CHILDHOOD, YOUTH AND TRANSITIONS
• ENVIRONMENT, HARM AND SOCIETY
• 21ST CENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
• CRIMINOLOGY
• FAMILY LAW: CHILD LAW
• QUALITATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS
• EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
• GENDER, VICTIMISATION AND OFFENDING
• CRIME AND SOCIETY
• MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
• GENDER AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• CHILD OBSERVATION USING A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
• FAMILIES AND THE LIFE COURSE
• PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
• THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY
• EDUCATION AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
• BIOCHEMISTRY
• BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• FIELD ECOLOGY
• EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
• DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
• COMMUNITY, ECOSYSTEM AND MACRO-ECOLOGY
• MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
• PROGRAMMING 2
• CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE AND POLICY
• LIBERAL ARTS CAPSTONE
• TRANSLATION WORK EXPERIENCE (LEVEL 6)
• MULTICULTURALISM
• THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
• CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
• IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
• THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
• CONTEMPORARY SCREEN DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION
• SELVES, IDENTITIES AND PERFORMANCE
• PITCH, PUBLISH, PERFORM
• THE REIGN OF LOUIS THE FAT: WAR, MURDER, & THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN EARLY TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE
• INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING
• DIGITAL POLITICS
• SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
• BANNED BOOKS
• THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
• JAPANESE YEAR 3 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
• THE ART OF MURDER
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING
• BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
• DIGITAL STORYTELLING
• DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
• TRANSLATION AND MEDIA IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (LEVEL 6)
• TEACHING HISTORY
• FRENCH YEAR 3 HONOURS (AUTUMN SEMESTER)
• THE ACTOR'S ART
• EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHIES (THIRD YEAR MODULE)
• GREENING THE WORLD: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• THE CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
• SPECIALISED TRANSLATION (SPANISH)
• ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
• THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
• ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING FOR THIRD YEARS
• RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905-1921
• SPANISH YEAR 3 HONOURS (SPRING SEMESTER)
• POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
• MUSEUM WORK: THEORY & PRACTICE
• PRODUCTION EFFECTS
• CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
• BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
• THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
• SCIENCE FICTION
• TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
• MIND AND LANGUAGE FOR THIRD YEARS
• ETHICS FOR THIRD YEARS
• ROBIN HOOD: THE MEDIEVAL OUTLAW IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
• PRODUCTION
• MEDIA, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
• CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
• IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE
• GLOBAL INTERCULTURAL LEADERSHIP
• THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
• DATA, POLITICS AND SOCIETY
• IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
• WEAPONS OF WAR
• PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
• CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE AI AGE
• WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
• FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
• TELEVISION PRODUCTION FOR LIVE EVENTS
• ADVANCED TRANSLATION IN JAPANESE
• GRAND STRATEGY
• POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
• KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE AND PROOF FOR THIRD YEARS
• WRITING CONSCIOUSNESS: STYLE AND MODERNIST FICTION
• SCRIPTWRITING: ADAPTATION
• TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR SUBTITLING AND DUBBING (LEVEL 6)
• PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE ARTS (THIRD YEAR MODULE)
• RHETORIC: DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICS OF PERSUASION
• BLOOD AND BRUTALITY: VIOLENCE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
• US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
• INTERCULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
• WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
• EMBODIMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA & THE AMERICAS
• TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY (LEVEL 6)
• ADVANCED TRANSLATION (FRENCH TO ENGLISH)
• ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING
• APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• MAKING DIGITAL MEDIA
• WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
• CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS
• DOCUMENTARY AS SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
• INTRODUCTION TO CONFERENCE INTERPRETING
• RADICAL PERFORMANCE
• THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE: ROMANCE AND REALITY
• COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
• SOUND ON SCREEN
• MODERN ART AND STATES OF MIND
• CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
• CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES
• STORYTELLING, MEDIA AND CRISIS
• A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER
• RESEARCHING MEDIA INDUSTRIES AND CREATIVE SECTORS IN CONTEXT
• MAKING YOUR SHOWREEL
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED POETRY (AUT)
• CELEBRITY: FROM STARS TO INFLUENCERS
• CRITICAL VEGAN STUDIES
• MEDIA, CULTURE AND LEARNING
• BUSINESS ETHICS
• RISK AND RESILIENCE: YOUNG PEOPLE AS VICTIMS OF EXPLOITATION, OFFENDERS AND SURVIVORS
• STRATEGIC BRAND MANAGEMENT
• EMPLOYABILITY, CREATIVITY AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
• JURISPRUDENCE
• UNDERSTANDING CHILDHOODS: CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
• THE 21ST CENTURY FAMILY
• MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
• WARS AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
• THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY
• THE MILITARY, SECURITY AND SOCIETY
• PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
• FAMILY LAW: ADULT RELATIONSHIPS
• INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
• EVOLUTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
• FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE
• THE CARBON CYCLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• TOPICS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES
• BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND HUMAN SOCIETY
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONCEPTS
• SOCIAL EVOLUTION

Questions about this course

Are students happy with the teaching on BA Liberal Arts at University of East Anglia?

75% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.

What grades do I need for BA Liberal Arts at University of East Anglia?

The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 146 UCAS points.

How many students continue on BA Liberal Arts at University of East Anglia?

60% of students continued into their second year, and 35% left higher education.