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Liberal Arts with Distance Foundation Year (Full-time) (Foundation, BA Hons)

Lampeter/ Carmarthen
4 Years Full-time
96 - 112 UCAS Points

The Liberal Arts with Foundation Year degree at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is designed for students seeking a flexible degree that puts their own personal interests at the heart of their studies. This unique programme encourages you to explore and combine ideas across subjects, building a degree that’s as distinctive as you are. From day one, you’ll have guidance from a personal tutor who helps you choose the right modules to reflect your ambitions and curiosity.

The Distance Foundation Year equips students with essential skills and foundational knowledge for success in the Liberal Arts degree, all while offering the flexibility of remote study. Through modules focused on academic writing, language and culture, and key humanities concepts, students gain confidence in vital areas, ensuring a smooth transition into university life and a solid academic base for their degree.

Liberal Arts is based on interdisciplinary learning, which means you’re not limited to one field. You can select from a broad range of topics across Humanities, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. This bespoke degree approach allows you to cross traditional subject boundaries, so whether you’re interested in history, literature, philosophy, or more, you can create a programme that fits your academic goals. By studying these diverse subjects, you’ll gain global perspectives and develop skills that will be valuable wherever your career takes you.

The degree focuses on building employability skills and real-world impact. Through coursework, projects, and assessments, you’ll strengthen your communication skills and critical thinking. The course encourages creative thinking, so you’re not only learning facts but are also learning how to see and solve complex issues from new angles. Employers in today’s world value graduates who can think across disciplines and bring fresh insights to their work.

At ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, every year of your degree can look different, with options to adapt your module choices as your interests evolve. With a curriculum that offers extensive choice across all humanities subjects, you’ll have the freedom to shape a degree that prepares you for a variety of paths, whether in further study, professional roles, or creative industries.

This programme is ideal if you want the freedom to explore a range of topics while developing the essential skills you’ll need for future success.

Course details

Start date:
Study modes:
  • Full-time
  • Distance Learning
Language:
  • English
Institution code:
T80
UCAS code:
LAF1
Course length:
4 Years Full-time
Entry requirements:
96 - 112 UCAS Points

Tuition Fees 24/25
Home (Full-time): £9,000 per year
Overseas (Full-time): £13,500 per year

Why choose this course?

01
Wide range of modules on relevant topics like the philosophy of mind, the history of genocide, or the literature of Western cultures.
02
Modules based on lecturers' distinctive research expertise.
03
Innovative immersive teaching in small groups and one-to-one tutorials.

What you will learn

The Distance Foundation Year offers a flexible learning structure across three semesters each year, allowing students to balance their studies with other commitments. This format covers crucial topics such as academic skills, language and culture, and the humanities, helping students develop critical competencies essential for success in their degree. The remote nature of the programme ensures that students can tailor their learning experience to fit their individual needs while still benefiting from a robust foundation for their future studies.

In the second and third year, you’ll engage in Basic Studies, an innovative model that introduces a wide range of subjects, helping you discover and refine your interests across interdisciplinary fields. You’ll make meaningful choices about your areas of focus, selecting modules from various schools within the faculty to build a degree that suits your personal and academic interests.

In the fourth year, you’ll choose two strands for in-depth study, diving into areas that align with your developing profile and career ambitions. This approach enables a bespoke degree that combines both breadth and depth, ensuring you gain relevant knowledge and practical skills for the real world.

Our teaching philosophy prioritises your autonomy, fostering critical and creative thinking while supporting you in forming connections across disciplines. Each choice you make throughout this degree shapes a personalised and relevant academic experience, equipping you for various paths post-graduation.


Prospective students should be aware of the following:

  • Not all optional modules are offered every year
  • Optional modules are delivered subject to sufficient student numbers
  • Language modules are optional/compulsory/core according to linguistic ability
  • There are many Level 5 and Level 6 versions of the same module. Students can only take this module once; this depends on which year the modules are offered in.

Compulsory

Academic Skills

(20 credits)

The Humanities

(20 credits)

Writing for University

(20 credits)

Knowledge and Belief

(20 credits)

People across time

(20 credits)

Language and Culture

(20 credits)

Compulsory

Exploring the Humanities

(20 credits)

Optional - Any 5 x 20 credit modules from across the offer

The Modern World

(20 credits)

Hieroglyphs 1

(20 credits)

Into the Field

(20 credits)

Death, Burial and the Afterlife

(20 credits)

Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World

(20 credits)

From Egypt to the Near East: phenomena of the Mediterranean

(20 credits)

An Introduction to Ethics

(20 credits)

Ancient Philosophy

(20 credits)

Crusading in the Middle Ages

(20 credits)

Doing History: Past in Practice

(20 credits)

Everyday Life in Athens and Rome

(20 credits)

Historicising Texts

(20 credits)

Introduction to the Craft of Writing

(20 credits)

Popular Fiction

(20 credits)

The Medieval World

(20 credits)

The Study of Literature: Text and Theory

(20 credits)

What makes civilisation?

(20 credits)

Introduction to Archaeology

(20 credits)

Anthropology Today

(20 credits)

Approaches to form

(20 credits)

Doing Archaeology: The Past in Practice

(20 credits)

People's Worlds: Interaction with the Environment

(20 credits)

Hieroglyphs 2

(20 credits)

Optional - Any 6 x 20 credit modules from across the offer

Ancestors, Death and Burial

(20 credits)

Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare

(20 credits)

The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero

(20 credits)

Hieroglyphs 1

(20 credits)

Thinking With Things

(20 credits)

Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice

(20 credits)

Family, Gender and Sexuality

(20 credits)

Animals in Archaeology

(20 credits)

Excavation and Fieldwork

(20 credits)

(Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past

(20 credits)

Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults

(20 credits)

Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy

(20 credits)

Greek 1

(20 credits)

Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism

(20 credits)

Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World

(20 credits)

Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure

(20 credits)

The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement

(20 credits)

From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

(20 credits)

Free-Market Environmentalism, Big Business and Global Politics

(20 credits)

Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire

(20 credits)

Ancient Lives in Death

(20 credits)

Britain and the Great War

(20 credits)

Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times

(20 credits)

Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history

(20 credits)

Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East

(20 credits)

Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation

(20 credits)

Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism

(20 credits)

Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present

(20 credits)

Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict

(20 credits)

Households in the ancient world

(20 credits)

Latin 1

(20 credits)

Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing

(20 credits)

Materialities in Anthropology

(20 credits)

Medieval Prose in Wales

(20 credits)

Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town

(20 credits)

Sparta: An Extraordinary City

(20 credits)

Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives

(20 credits)

Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds

(20 credits)

The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career

(20 credits)

The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration

(20 credits)

Women and Religion

(20 credits)

Writing for Theatre

(20 credits)

Writing for TV, Film and Radio

(20 credits)

Philosophy of Mind: Humans, Animals and Machines

(20 credits)

Religions in Africa

(20 credits)

Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity

(20 credits)

Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations

(20 credits)

The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)

(20 credits)

Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399

(20 credits)

Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453

(20 credits)

Approaches to Economic Relations

(20 credits)

A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century

(20 credits)

Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story

(20 credits)

Novel writing

(20 credits)

Off the Page: Performance Poetry

(20 credits)

Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory

(20 credits)

Museums, Heritage and Representation

(20 credits)

Professional Placement

(20 credits)

Global Genocides

(20 credits)

The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics

(20 credits)

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment

(20 credits)

Hieroglyphs 2

(20 credits)

Compulsory

Independent Project

(40 credits)

Optional - Any 4 x 20 credit modules from across the offer

Ancestors, Death and Burial

(20 credits)

Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare

(20 credits)

The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero

(20 credits)

Hieroglyphs 1

(20 credits)

Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire

(20 credits)

Thinking With Things

(20 credits)

Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice

(20 credits)

Family, Gender and Sexuality

(20 credits)

Animals in Archaeology

(20 credits)

Excavation and Fieldwork

(20 credits)

(Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past

(20 credits)

Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults

(20 credits)

Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy

(20 credits)

Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism

(20 credits)

Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World

(20 credits)

Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure

(20 credits)

The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement

(20 credits)

From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

(20 credits)

Free-Market Environmentalism, Big Business and Global Politics

(20 credits)

Ancient Lives in Death

(20 credits)

Britain and the Great War

(20 credits)

Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times

(20 credits)

Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history

(20 credits)

Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East

(20 credits)

Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation

(20 credits)

Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism

(20 credits)

Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present

(20 credits)

Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict

(20 credits)

Households in the ancient world

(20 credits)

Latin 1

(20 credits)

Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing

(20 credits)

Materialities in Anthropology

(20 credits)

Medieval Prose in Wales

(20 credits)

Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town

(20 credits)

Sparta: An Extraordinary City

(20 credits)

Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives

(20 credits)

Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds

(20 credits)

The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career

(20 credits)

The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration

(20 credits)

Women and Religion

(20 credits)

Writing for Theatre

(20 credits)

Writing for TV, Film and Radio

(20 credits)

Philosophy of Mind: Humans, Animals and Machines

(20 credits)

Religions in Africa

(20 credits)

Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity

(20 credits)

Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations

(20 credits)

The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)

(20 credits)

Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399

(20 credits)

Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453

(20 credits)

Approaches to Economic Relations

(20 credits)

A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century

(20 credits)

Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story

(20 credits)

Novel writing

(20 credits)

Off the Page: Performance Poetry

(20 credits)

Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory

(20 credits)

Museums, Heritage and Representation

(20 credits)

Global Genocides

(20 credits)

The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics

(20 credits)

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment

(20 credits)

Hieroglyphs 2

(20 credits)

Course Disclaimer

  • We listen to student feedback and insights from industry and from professionals to ensure that course content is high-quality and up-to-date, and that it offers the best possible preparation for your future career or study goals. 

    For this reason, there might be modifications to the content of your course over time, to keep up to date with changes in the subject area or in the sector. If a module is no longer running, we’ll make sure to keep you informed, and work with you to choose a different suitable module.

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Our People

You will be taught and supported by a wide range of professional staff and teams here to help you get the university experience you are looking for. Our teaching staff were ranked 2nd in Wales for Teaching, Assessment and Feedback and Academic Support (NSS 2024) meaning that the support and feedback you get will help you learn and develop strong academic skills. Our students have placed us 1st in Wales for Learning Opportunities and Student Voice (NSS 2024) meaning that there are a wide range of opportunities available to enhance your studies and that students play an active role in shaping their learning experiences. Our commitment to your learning has seen our students place us as 1st in Wales and joint 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (Times Higher Education, 2024, ‘Overall Positivity’ measure). Find out more about our academic staff who teach across our courses. 

Further information

  • Grades are important; however, our offers are not solely based on academic results. We are interested in creative people that demonstrate a strong commitment to their chosen subject area and therefore we welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds.

    To assess student suitability for their chosen course we normally arrange interviews for all applicants at which your skills, achievements and life experience will be considered as well as your qualifications.

  • The programme is assessed in a variety of ways and will include several of the following type of assessment: essays of 1,000 to 4,000 words in length, document analysis, book/ journal reviews, short reports and reflective journals, time tests, seen and unseen exams, field journals, posters, group and individual presentations, dissertations of 10,000 words, wikis, commentaries and film evaluations.

  • The Faculty has estimated on the assumption that students buy new copies of the books. Students may also choose to spend money on printing drafts of work.

    Students may spend up to £300 per year on books and additional related materials.

    Students are expected to submit two hard copies of their final project, the estimated cost for binding these is Â£20.

    Optional Field trip:

    The faculty works to ensure that there are a range of fieldwork and field trip options available both locally and internationally. Thus students can opt to take either more expensive or less expensive placements. The Faculty subsidises these but the cost each year is dependent on airfare, location, and currency exchange rates. Below are the upper end of expected costs based on where students have currently done placements.

    Fieldwork (depending on where a student decides to do fieldwork): c. £500 - Â£1,500

    Individual trips: c. £5 - Â£50

  • You may be eligible for funding to help support your study. To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available, please visit our Bursaries and Scholarships section.

  • Graduates go on to careers in a variety of fields including:

    • Communication, business
    • Cultural and social advocacy
    • Film and media
    • Fundraising, management consultancy, research
    • Health, food and lifestyle
    • Human, animal and land rights
    • International development, aid and charity organisations
    • Museums, heritage, tourism
    • Publishing
    • Race relations, community, social work, caring professions
    • Teaching

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