Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Modern Languages with a Year Abroad Kings College London, UK

This Liberal Arts degree is flexible, allowing you to choose one of 13 majors from across the arts, social sciences and humanities. You’ll get to chart your own pathway but will be supported by your personal tutor to make the best choice.

You’ll choose from a wide range of topics across our Arts & Humanities Faculty and from selected subjects in the Social Science & Public Policy Faculty. 

You’ll graduate from this liberal arts degree with skills that are highly desired by employers, including critical thinking and analytical reasoning, which are essential for evaluating complex issues from multiple perspectives.

You’ll develop advanced communication skills, both written and verbal, enabling you to articulate ideas clearly and persuasively. 

This Liberal Arts BA also fosters your interdisciplinary research abilities, allowing you to integrate knowledge across various fields. You’ll cultivate your cultural competency and ethical awareness, preparing you to engage thoughtfully with global and societal challenges.

Key benefits

• Study a flexible and tailored degree with a wide range of options within your major and beyond.
• Benefit from a strong focus on developing your skills and making you highly employable.
• Develop an interdisciplinary focus on the arts, humanities, and social sciences, with no mathematics or science requirements.
• Use the streets and spaces of the city as a laboratory for interdisciplinary learning during the unique ‘Lives of London’ module.
• Learn from a truly international staff with a wealth of experience in Liberal Arts teaching at the Strand Campus, within easy reach of numerous cultural and political institutions.
• Course delivered at The Strand Campus in the heart of London, within easy reach of numerous cultural and political institutions.
• Unique ‘Lives of London’ module which uses the streets and spaces of the city as a laboratory for learning.

This Liberal Arts BA offers outstanding flexibility. You’ll get to balance a breadth of knowledge across disciplines with the opportunity for in-depth study in a ‘major’ subject of your choice. 

The degree comprises 13 subjects, allowing you to build a personalised curriculum by pursuing your interests. During your liberal arts degree, you’ll be able to choose modules in Politics, Digital culture, English, Film studies ,Geography, History, International development, Modern languages (French, German, Spanish or Portuguese), Music, Philosophy, Classical and Hellenic studies, Comparative literature and Theology and religious studies.

Each year will include at least one distinctive required module that will anchor your study of the liberal arts. 

The first year will see you tackle three required modules, each designed to give you a solid foundation for further study. You’ll start by looking at the ‘Lives of London’ with an interdisciplinary module that draws on issues across the major subjects to give you a taste of what awaits you. You’ll analyse various multimedia materials and visit cultural sites to think about the city around you and how multiple disciplines are needed to understand complex problems.

You will also learn how to write and think in an interdisciplinary way with a required module on Writing Liberal Arts. For example, you could examine the subject of bodies to think, talk and write about how different disciplines impose ideas of bodies on their audiences and learn how to reconcile divergent concepts.

As a first-year liberal arts student, you’ll also need to take a required language module from the Modern Language Centre, which will foster enhanced learning skills and cultural awareness. You’ll develop your understanding of diverse perspectives and gain language skills that are increasingly valued in the global job market.

For the rest of the first year of the Liberal Arts BA, you’ll get to pick from a range of optional modules that give you a broad introduction to study in different disciplines and prepare you to select a major. For example, you could study the literature and thought of Ancient Greece or Rome and contrast this with a module on working with digital content or theories of new media. You could balance comparative literature modules with an introduction to film studies or look at medieval or early modern history and learn about the making of the modern world. You could even start to explore development studies, ethics, politics, the sociology of religion and more.