A Liberal Arts 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.
• Life after Essex - What do Liberal Arts students do after graduation?

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