Degrees for the real world
Year on year we adapt our teaching in response to the latest academic research and the changing needs of our students and their future employers. Please bear this in mind if you are working with year 12 students looking to attend university in the recruitment cycle following that of the current prospectus.
Our next release of modules, designed alongside our students, explore real-world challenges across seven contemporary themes:
- Empowering employability
- Health and wellbeing
- Data and digital
- Community engagement and social impact
- Sustainability
- Equality and justice
- Academic skills
Whether your students want to work in the cultural and creative industries or elsewhere, our curriculum will give them a broader understanding so they can use their degrees to their greatest potential.
Across the arts and humanities curriculum, students can gain skills in:
- Analysis
- Problem solving
- Creativity and creative thinking
- Communication
- Cultural awareness
- Data and text mining
- Writing
- Practical industry skills (podcasting, photo editing, photography, video and sound editing)
Example faculty-wide modules
Arts and humanities degree provides students with skills essential for changing the world we live in. They will be uniquely positioned to understand people, processes and culture. Our Arts Work Placement and Sustainability modules are available to all our students, whatever their degree choice.
Arts work placement module
This module involves employability skills training in the Autumn semester followed by a part-time placement (one day a week, or equivalent, up to eight weeks) in an external organisation in the spring semester. The module is aimed at developing hands-on work experience and enhancing employability skills in a workplace relevant to arts graduates. Skills developed during the placement will be intrinsically relevant to various work environments.
Sustainability
This is a two-part module covering different perspectives on living sustainably in a time of environmental crisis, and how we can make a difference in our world. In part one, students will examine the history, context, and importance of sustainability, and how the arts and humanities uniquely contribute to the global conversation. Part two uses Faculty of Arts research in literature, art, music, history, philosophy, and languages, to tackle the fundamental question of how we can protect and preserve our world. Students will explore diverse approaches and sources to uncover how the arts and humanities provide answers to the sustainability challenge.
Involving students in curriculum design
“The department wanted to shake up the whole curriculum. It was looking at modernising the skillset that the degree programmes offer. It’s likely it will become more individualised in the future, looking at tailoring the content more towards industry and towards the needs of students.”
Megan, Film and Television Studies
"I wanted to get into something that was a bit more specialized to what I was actually doing in my course. I also wanted to have a different work environment.
This was very good because it felt a lot like an introduction to what office work was like - going into meetings, doing presentations, working with the team."
Freddy, Theology and Religious Studies