Arts and Sciences

Embrace curiosity, innovation, and variety with a BASc Arts and Sciences degree at the University of Birmingham. You’ll transform your diverse interests and passions into real-world expertise and knowledge as you make the most of Birmingham’s cutting-edge offering of arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences disciplines.

Your curiosity knows no bounds, so why let your degree be restricted by traditional academic boundaries? With a BASc in Arts and Sciences, you’ll mix and match subjects like never before, curating a completely individual path through your degree. With a focus on exploration and interpretation, this programme encourages you to unlock endless possibilities for your future through a diverse module offering and exciting year abroad destinations.

The BASc Arts and Sciences degree places world-leading academic knowledge at your fingertips. The majority of your teaching will take place on optional modules from across Birmingham's celebrated departments and disciplines, with the option to accrue subject-specific specialisation in the form of a major. Our core modules will provide you a space to explore the connections between disciplinary norms and traditions. At Birmingham, disciplines like Anthropology, Creative Writing, and Chemistry collaborate and intertwine to spark ideas that can change the world around you.

Our core modules encapsulate the full breadth of ideas across disciplines, with assessments that embolden you to challenge, reflect, innovate, and create. Degree flexibility is enhanced by a dedicated 100-120 credits per year for optional modules, hand-picked by you to explore your interests across the arts, humanities and natural and social sciences. With a broad range of unique development opportunities, the BASc in Arts and Sciences will prepare you to confidently stand out in a dynamic employment market while honing your passions into career prospects.

Why study this course?

Become a modern-day polymath - Follow the footsteps of renowned Renaissance men and women such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sequoyah and Florence Nightingale as you create your unique blend of arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences in a BASc Arts and Sciences degree. With the benefit of an additional year in your degree, you’ll experience the wide variety of academic disciplines, specialisms, and research centres at the university.

Prepare for an uncharted future - Our programme will provide you with opportunities across industry and community to develop as a resilient, adaptable, and creative thinker, ready to innovate and thrive in any professional setting.

Broaden your potential - Take advantage of a third year like no other. Embark on a year abroad living and studying at one of a choice of over 250 institutions or take on a placement in our year in civic leadership developing your professional skills in the workplace.

Join a vibrant community where collaboration flourishes - Our dedicated interdisciplinary spaces foster a unique connection among leading scholars, likeminded students, and dedicated support staff, nurturing a thriving academic ecosystem.

Reinvent your skillset - Explore our exceptional facilities, including the Collaborative Teaching Laboratory and the renowned Cadbury Research Library, housing rare books, manuscripts, and more. Improve your academic writing, practise qualitative and quantitative methodologies, connect with alumni networks, and prioritise your well-being with our diverse range of student focused activities.

Gain interdisciplinary expertise - You won’t just practise interdisciplinarity, you’ll become a scholar of it. Through innovative modules and intensive study, you’ll learn to differentiate, debate and understand multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies.

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First-year modules cover a broad base of the subject and are designed to introduce you to ways of studying at university. By the final year the modules you take will become more specialised and reflect the research expertise of the academic staff. More detailed module information can be found on the ‘Course detail’ tab on the University of Birmingham’s coursefinder web pages.