Warwick Liberal Arts

Finding yourself glued to the election coverage?☑️ Then our 'Truth and Misinformation' module may be of interest to you.

This first year module discusses everything from social media echo chambers, clickbait and the relativity of truth - all things relevant to our current political climate! Read more about 'Truth and Misinformation' here https://courses.warwick.ac.uk/modules/2023/IP121-30

It's 2 weeks till the UCAS deadline. If you are thinking about applying for our Liberal Arts BA, here is a glimpse of what you will be studying in your modules https://shorturl.at/ioBMW

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

To finish off we are crushing the notion that doing a Liberal Arts degree means you have to study "everything".

Although some Liberal Arts programmes aim to grant students foundational knowledge across many different subject areas - from art, philosophy and language to history, science and math - at Warwick we provide the ideal balance of focus and freedom, allowing students to tailor their degree to their own unique interests and passions through our routes and pathway options.

We may not have twelve drummers drumming, but we do have twelve disciplinary routes in which you can focus your interests. If none of these appeal to you or you'd like to "go your own way" (to quote Fleetwood Mac!), we'll work with you to create a specialised bespoke pathway through your degree course.

Find out more about how routes and pathways work here https://t.ly/OnVKX

For the eleventh day of Christmas we are introducing you to another member of our team - Dr Lauren Bird.

Lauren is the Director of our MASc in Community, Engagement, and Belonging, and teaches on a number of our undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including 'Quantitative Methods for Undergraduate Research' and 'The Good Life: Flourishing and Belonging Within Communities'. Her research incorporates multiple disciplines - from social epidemiology, demography and sociology - to investigate health and child development.

Find out more about Lauren and her work here https://t.ly/_kJef

It's now the tenth day of and today we are focusing on our unique Liberal Arts Venice programme.

Did you know that Warwick Liberal Arts is the only Liberal Arts programme in the UK to feature annual onsite summer teaching in Venice?

The programme consists of two intensive modules taught in Venice every summer, with Liberal Arts students having priority access to both. On these modules, you'll meet other students from around the world and come together to think critically about super-wicked problems facing both Venice and the world today: sustainability, rising tides, over tourism, gentrification, and more, whilst also considering grassroots resistance movements to these global problems.

We'll use Venice and its lagoon as a floating classroom, with onsite activities and field trips to provide a one-of-a-kind unforgettable educational experience.

Find out more about our exciting Venice programme here https://t.ly/NJu7e

On the ninth day of we are putting the spotlight on our MASc in Community, Engagement, and Belonging.

This course teaches you how to use a multidisciplinary approach when creating methods for purposeful change within local and global communities. On this course, students are empowered to develop into intellectual and community leaders who will bring future hubs of knowledge creation—such as universities, think tanks, community groups, religious organisations, and industry—into meaningful dialogue with the global communities they serve.

Find out more about our innovative MASc programme here https://t.ly/wZK7Z

What can you do with a Liberal Arts degree? A lot more than you think.

The Liberal Arts BA at University of Warwick equips students with many important employability skills, including critical thinking, collating and analysing complex data, independent research and problem-solving abilities, and the ability to engage in complex ethical decision making.

Find more Liberal Arts employability skills here https://t.ly/_-Wnh

For our seventh post we are talking about Liberal Arts on the global stage i.e., your opportunities to study abroad.

We have partnered with world-renowned Liberal Arts programmes in Europe and Canada to allow you to broaden your educational horizons and gain an international perspective on Liberal Education around the world. We also run our popular Venice programme, where students can optionally study two intensive courses in Venice.

Find out more about our study abroad opportunities here https://t.ly/duLwA

It's the sixth day of and we are bringing you everything you need to know about our Beauty module.

What is beauty? Is it something objective and transcendent, true for all time, or does its meaning rely entirely on the context of the historical period, culture or society?

The problem of beauty has been debated for thousands of years—from Aristotle's exploration of what makes poetry beautiful to Keats' Romantic equation of Beauty and Truth in the early nineteenth century, from modern day debates on celebrity culture and social media to socially-constructed approaches that see beauty as an expression of the patriarchy.

In this module we encourage students to look at beauty critically and discuss how it has impacted society—from theological approaches to inner beauty as a form of transcendence to the problem of the "beauty bias" in reinforcing social, racial, and gender inequality. We analyse a wide range of case studies from Renaissance portraiture to social media and fast fashion.

Find out more about our Beauty module here https://t.ly/WlZQX

On the fifth day of we are exploring the career prospects of a Liberal Arts degree.

Our Liberal Arts BA programme has been designed to provide students with the professional skills that employers today are seeking from graduate workers. From tailored course content to professional development certificates and placements, we offer numerous ways for students to improve their employability prospects and gain the experience vital for entering the world of work.

You can read more about Liberal Arts career prospects here https://t.ly/wSgXQ

Is Liberal Arts a new field of study?

The correct answer is that Liberal Arts is nothing new - in fact, it is considered one of the oldest forms of education, acting as the primary form of study across European universities during the medieval period.

Read more about Liberal Arts' fascinating history here https://t.ly/j22Sw

On the third day of we are introducing some of our team, starting with Bryan!

Bryan is the Head of our Liberal Arts department and teaches on some of our modules such as Truth and Misinformation and Beauty. He also leads our Venice programme, where students have the option to study in Venice and use their Liberal Arts education to confront Venice's global challenges.

Find out more about Bryan and his research here https://t.ly/szvNo and be sure to check out the University of Warwick Instagram () stories to hear him speak about our Venice programme!

For our Second Day of we'll be discussing what our Truth & Misinformation module is all about!

This core first-year module introduces students to a set of modern topical issues around truth and misinformation today; exposing you to practical considerations and consequences of certain positions, while also inviting critical and creative responses from multiple academic approaches.

Rather than providing a definition or a ready-made model of truth or misinformation, students will be equipped with the tools to reflect and define their own approach to these concepts. Some of the complex questions we explore include:

- Is truth socially constructed and dependent on context or is truth universal?
- Is there one central truth or multiple conflicting versions of truth?
- What sources of information are trustworthy and how do we know?

Find out more about this fascinating topic here https://t.ly/eAA-4

We are doing this Christmas to tell you everything you need to know about studying Liberal Arts at University of Warwick. Starting with one of our most frequently asked questions - what is Liberal Arts?

A Liberal Arts education teaches students critical thinking and innovative problem-solving skills —from a wide range of academic disciplines — to address the most pressing challenges of the day. It is rooted in a tradition of learning and leadership that goes back to Ancient Greece, with methods of study that combined multiple disciplines into the arts of astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, rhetoric, grammar, logic and music in order to pursue a “desire for a universal understanding." In the Renaissance, Liberal Education transformed into the Studia Humanitatis, with a strong emphasis on learning to improve civic society.

Today, Liberal Arts education can include a wide range of subjects (all the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, and more), and seeks to foster rigorous critical thinking to creatively address the greatest challenges of tomorrow.

Interested? See how we've reinvented Liberal Arts at Warwick and find out more: https://t.ly/uaSbL

We are live! 📺

Join us online now to find out about our brand new postgraduate taught programme in Community, Engagement, and Belonging:

Postgraduate Virtual Open Days Autumn 2022 Our Postgraduate Virtual Open Days will help you find out more about your course of interest, as well as general topics like applying to Warwick, accommodation, careers and funding.

We hope everyone who joined us for our Open Day today enjoyed it as much as we did! So many great conversations about Liberal Arts and life at Warwick 🤩

If you’re interested in our flexible undergraduate programme, make sure to check out our website: warwick.ac.uk/liberalarts

We’ve had a fantastic day on campus meeting prospective students and their guests! If you joined us today, we hope you enjoyed finding out more about our Liberal Arts programme and everything Warwick has to offer.

If you’d like to visit us in person in the near future, our next Undergraduate Open Day is in two weeks! Book your place now, and make sure to stop by at our Liberal Arts sessions: warwick.ac.uk/OpenDays

A wonderful evening with friends old and new! Here’s to many more Liberal Arts Homecomings 🥂

Thank you to Bryan for organising!

Do you want to study a degree that aligns with your own personal interests, passions, and ambitions?

Join our Virtual Open Day tomorrow to find out all about studying Liberal Arts at the University of Warwick 🎓📚

We're also running on-campus Open Days in October! We hope to see you there 😊

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/opendays/

We are delighted to announce that Liberal Arts at Warwick has been rated the second best Liberal Arts programme in the UK! 🥳🎉

Warwick has been recognised as one of the UK's best universities by The Times and Sunday Times in the Good University Guide 2023. We're 9th overall, and many subjects also placed in the top 10. Well done to all at Warwick who helped make this happen! Read more 👇 https://bit.ly/3DzWdUF

We join with so many other communities across the world in expressing our sorrow at the death of Her Majesty The Queen. Like many universities, the University of Warwick was granted its Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1965 by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, and our flags are at half-mast to pay our respects and honour her memory.

Interested in sustainability and sustainable development at the University of Warwick?

Join a series of (free!) events on 22-23 September for the launch of Warwick's Sustainability Strategy and the refreshed vision for the Institute for Global Sustainable Development 🚀

On the 23rd there will be a Research Day exploring emerging research challenges and how we collaborate and forge partnerships with non-academic partners to support sustainable development 🌏

Everyone is welcome! Book your place now ⬇

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/newsevents/events/launch22/

We are delighted to celebrate two(!!) winners of the Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence from the School for Cross-faculty Studies 🥳🎉🙌

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/news/shortlist_teaching_tutoring_awards_2022/

Teaching and Tutoring Excellence Awards: School for Cross-faculty Studies Success! We are extremely proud that several members of staff from the School for Cross-faculty Studies have been recognised for their dedication to teaching and tutoring in the 2022 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) and Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE)!

Congratulations to one of our third-year students, Jorja Oladiran, for securing an Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) bursary for her summer research project! 👏

Jorja is investigating the historical and political reasons behind Barbados's decision to become a republic 🇧🇧

Read more about Jorja's project and other projects led by students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies ⬇
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/news/undergraduate_research_support_scheme_2022

Research funding success for School for Cross-faculty Studies students This year, six students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies have successfully secured a Warwick Undergraduate Research Support Scheme bursary. Find out about what their summer research projects will involve and take a look back on previous projects completed by students from the School.

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-level results today! 🥳

We’re so looking forward to getting to know our new cohort of Liberal Arts students 🤩

If you’re joining us in September, be sure to check out our Welcome page ⬇️

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/liberalarts/currentstudents/welcome/

Welcome - Current Students - Liberal Arts Welcome to the Liberal Arts Department from our Director of Undergraduate Studies and Admissions! Find out what's ahead and view our schedule for Welcome Week.

What is Liberal Arts? 🤔

What opportunities are there for student research inside and out of the classroom? ✏

What inspires us about teaching and research in the Liberal Arts Department? 💡

Liberal Arts blogger (now graduate 🎓), Olamide, asked us these questions and so much more last year!

Access the transcript for this video here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/liberalarts/prospectivestudents/usefulresources/transcript_spotlight_on_academics/

OurWarwick presents: Spotlight On Our Academics Time codes for the video...01:48: What is Liberal Arts at Warwick and how are we different? 04:27: Liberal Arts pathways 07:19: Staff research interests 16:4...

Earlier this month, as part of the Warwick International Intensive Study Programme, Liberal Arts and the School for Cross-faculty Studies offered an onsite module in Venice for 16 Warwick students (including students from Liberal Arts and Warwick Global Sustainable Development) and students from select international partners.

The module, "A Sustainable Serenissima", was led by Dr Bryan Brazeau (Associate Professor, Liberal Arts) and focused on a transdisciplinary and transhistorical approach to the complex problem of Sustainability in Venice as a case study for broader global issues 🛶🛥️🇮🇹

Hear about what they got up to in our latest news item ⬇

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/liberalarts/lanews/a_sustainable_serenissima/

Monash Warwick Alliance Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondazione Giorgio Cini Factum Foundation Arzanà

Are you a current Warwick student who came through Clearing?

Could you create a short video about your experience in return for a £20 Amazon voucher?

If you're interested, click the link and fill out your details by 2 August ⬇️
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