BA Liberal Arts (Full-time) (
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
About this course
BA Hons Liberal Arts is an undergraduate humanities degree offering an interdisciplinary curriculum across multiple subjects. Core topics include Fieldwork, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course includes a compulsory foundation year. The first year introduces foundational humanities through Exploring the Humanities, alongside a broad selection of optional modules such as The Modern World, Hieroglyphs 1, and Into the Field. The second year continues with diverse optional choices including Ancestors, Death and Burial, Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare, The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero, and Thinking With Things. Optional modules span ancient civilisations, literature, archaeology, history, and creative writing. The final year involves choosing two strands for in-depth study.
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Entry requirements
96-112 UCAS tariff points and an Interview
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What students say
Based on about 5 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 78%
- Learning opportunities: 64%
- Assessment and feedback: 87%
- Academic support: 100%
- Organisation and management: 50%
- Learning resources: 77%
- Student voice: 63%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 80%
- Left higher education: 20%
What graduates do next
Based on about 16 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 65%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 20%
Most common jobs
- Elementary occupations: 35%
- Customer service occupations: 15%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 10%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 10%
- Sales occupations: 10%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 80 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 3%
- North West: 9%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 6%
- East Midlands: 4%
- West Midlands: 8%
- East of England: 10%
- London: 4%
- South East: 16%
- South West: 8%
- Wales: 32%
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: 45%
- Other HE qualification: 10%
- Other qualifications: 5%
- No formal qualifications: 35%
Modules
- Exploring the Humanities
- The Modern World
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Into the Field
- Death, Burial and the Afterlife
- Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
- From Egypt to the Near East: phenomena of the Mediterranean
- An Introduction to Ethics
- Ancient Philosophy
- Crusading in the Middle Ages
- Doing History: Past in Practice
- Everyday Life in Athens and Rome
- Historicising Texts
- Introduction to the Craft of Writing
- Popular Fiction
- The Medieval World
- The Study of Literature: Text and Theory
- What makes civilisation?
- Introduction to Archaeology
- Anthropology Today
- Approaches to form
- Doing Archaeology: The Past in Practice
- People's Worlds: Interaction with the Environment
- Hieroglyphs 2
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
- The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Thinking With Things
- Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice
- Family, Gender and Sexuality
- Animals in Archaeology
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults
- Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
- Greek 1
- Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
- Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World
- Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
- The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement
- From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
- Free-Market Environmentalism, Big Business and Global Politics
- Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Britain and the Great War
- Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
- Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
- Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present
- Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict
- Households in the ancient world
- Latin 1
- Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
- Materialities in Anthropology
- Medieval Prose in Wales
- Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
- Sparta: An Extraordinary City
- Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
- Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
- The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career
- The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
- Women and Religion
- Writing for Theatre
- Writing for TV, Film and Radio
- Philosophy of Mind: Humans, Animals and Machines
- Religions in Africa
- Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
- Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399
- Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453
- Approaches to Economic Relations
- A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
- Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
- Novel writing
- Off the Page: Performance Poetry
- Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- Professional Placement
- Global Genocides
- The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment
- Hieroglyphs 2
- African Modernities
- Gender, Violence and Empire, 1800-2020
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy
- Heritage Project
- Independent Project
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
- The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire
- Thinking With Things
- Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice
- Family, Gender and Sexuality
- Animals in Archaeology
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults
- Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
- Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
- Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World
- Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
- The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement
- From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
- Free-Market Environmentalism, Big Business and Global Politics
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Britain and the Great War
- Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
- Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
- Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present
- Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict
- Households in the ancient world
- Latin 1
- Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
- Materialities in Anthropology
- Medieval Prose in Wales
- Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
- Sparta: An Extraordinary City
- Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
- Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
- The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career
- The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
- Women and Religion
- Writing for Theatre
- Writing for TV, Film and Radio
- Philosophy of Mind: Humans, Animals and Machines
- Religions in Africa
- Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
- Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399
- Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453
- Approaches to Economic Relations
- A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
- Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
- Novel writing
- Off the Page: Performance Poetry
- Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- Global Genocides
- The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment
- Hieroglyphs 2
- African Modernities
- Gender, Violence and Empire, 1800-2020
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Liberal Arts (Full-time) ( at University of Wales Trinity Saint David earn?
The median salary is £18,000 after 3 years, £22,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £18,500 and £27,500. The £22,000 median after five years is £8,500 less than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA Liberal Arts (Full-time) ( at University of Wales Trinity Saint David do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Liberal Arts (Full-time) ( at University of Wales Trinity Saint David?
78% 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 (Full-time) ( at University of Wales Trinity Saint David?
The average entrant had 91 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Liberal Arts (Full-time) ( at University of Wales Trinity Saint David?
80% of students continued into their second year, and 20% left higher education.