What is Liberal Arts?
A transdisciplinary approach
A liberal education at Warwick puts critical thinking and problem solving at the heart of learning.
As a Liberal Arts student here, you will develop your ability to inspire others, provide creative leadership, and think critically to solve complex problems.
What makes Liberal Arts at Warwick stand out?
Our degree is radically different from other Liberal Arts programmes around the world. Here you will focus on developing high-level research skills to solve complex problems, along with experienced transdisciplinary academics.
Problem-Based Learning
In Liberal Arts, we use Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to explore topics through complex problems, encouraging you to develop your own unique perspective.
Learn through collaboration...
Our students are co-creators of knowledge in the classroom. Rather than attending formal lectures, you will spend your time in the classroom debating, framing, and presenting research questions/responses.
Structure and focus
At the end of your first year, you will choose a route or a pathway through your degree. Your route/pathway offers you flexibility when thinking about which modules fit your interests.
Design your degree...
Do you want to reinvent how we see the past? Or, are you concerned with how we build the future?
Your route/pathway allows you to select modules that give you the knowledge, skills, and expertise to be a leader in your area of interest.
We will work with you to guide and support your decision about which route/pathway to follow.
Study abroad partnerships
Do you want to extend your learning and broaden your perspective by spending a year studying in another country? If so, we can guide you through this process.
Broaden your horizons...
We have partnered with world-renowned Liberal Arts programmes in Europe and Canada that share our passion for interdisciplinarity and critical thinking.
Studying at one of these partners will allow you to broaden your Liberal Arts education and gain an international perspective on your own degree, preparing you for a career on the global stage. We also offer short-term opportunities, such as modules taught intensively in Venice.
Employability skills
This degree has been designed to develop the core professional skills that employers seek in graduates.
These skills are embedded in our course content, teaching approach, and assessments.
Develop your skills...
To complement this, we have created co-curricular certificates and you will also have the opportunity to engage in a range of work placements.
Our department's Employability and Placement Manager is here to support you, providing one-to-one careers guidance.
Dedicated expert academics
Our academics in the Liberal Arts Department are passionate about liberal education and are experts in a variety of subject areas. They are also specialists in research-led teaching and learning.
A transdisciplinary learning...
Our academics also publish and lecture regularly on the teaching methods used here at Warwick.
Our experience in transdisciplinary learning means you will have expert support at all stages of your degree.
Research training
In Liberal Arts, we encourage you to go above and beyond the level of research usually expected at undergraduate level. In the first year, we offer two methods training modules in qualitative and quantitative research.
Build on your research skills...
These modules set the foundations for the rest of your assessments, allowing you to use and apply different kinds of research methodologies.
You will have plenty of opportunities to build on your research skills in your second-year core module, before consolidating your learning in your final-year dissertation.
By your final year, you will be undertaking advanced undergraduate research.
Engagement events and trips
We offer a range of interactive sessions for school students, both on campus and through in-school activities, along with specialised programmes in partnership with Sutton Trust.
Why not see for yourself?
Why not join us for an Open Day and see for yourself? This is a unique opportunity for you to hear from our tutors and students themselves.
We strongly encourage potential applicants to meet us virtually or in person to find out more about Liberal Arts at Warwick from our tutors and students. This will help you to decide whether our programme is the right one for you.
A supportive community
Studying Liberal Arts at Warwick has been the best decision I've ever made! The Department is so supportive and I am constantly pushing myself to learn new things. I post about my degree as well as my extra curricular activities which consist of radio, drama, film and more.
Olamide
Liberal Arts Graduate
