Key Skills
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BA Humanities education is designed
to help create articulate,
cosmopolitan and widely-read
individuals who can use their broad
general knowledge in the many fields
in the media, voluntary sector, and
education itself in which knowledge
is part of the currency.
Our students are engaged in an
interdisciplinary programme of
studies.
In the course of their studies they
will have to think, write, and be
examined in a number of different
disciplines. This will demand a
flexibility of mind to accommodate
the differing assumptions of the
different disciplines, a broad and
ever expanding knowledge of both the
substance of the humanities
disciplines (art history, history,
literature, film studies,
philosophy, languages and sociology)
and the methods of critically
understanding the principal concerns
of these disciplines. By being
exposed to a variety of academic
disciplines, the students will be
able to relate the principal
concerns of each to one another and
develop an interdisciplinary
understanding of the social,
political and cultural world.
Throughout these skills are
reinforced by the writing of essays,
single and group presentations, and
the taking of unseen examinations.
Through this educational programme students develop key skills of oral and written communication, awareness of differing approaches to understanding the world, and a broad general knowledge.
Links:
- There are also Study Skills workshops run by the Student Support Office.