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Applied Humanities BA is an accelerated degree program that offers a flexible, supportive but intensive option of study for students looking to complete an undergraduate degree in just 2 years.
You will study core academic subjects such as history, literature, and philosophy, whilst learning to innovate in cutting-edge areas of research including the digital, medical, and environmental world.
Our program of study has been developed with regional and national organizations to ensure that you acquire the creative, practical and professional skills necessary to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
As an Applied Humanities student, you will have the opportunity to establish contacts with a range of external organizations and experts. You will research and respond to real-life issues, learning how to transform your assessments into well-crafted and specific job applications which build on your real-life achievements. This personalized course builds on your potential and acts as a stepping-stone to a self-directed future career.
You must achieve at least 96 UCAS points including a minimum of CC at A level or equivalent (e.g.MM at BTEC Diploma; MPP at BTEC Extended Diploma) towards the total tariff.
Access Students can achieve the requirements with the following combination of Distinction, Merit, and/ or Pass grades at level 3 achieved from a completed Access course. 96 UCAS Points: D21-M3-P21; D18-M9-P18; D15-M15-P15; D12-M21-P12; D9-M27-P9; D6-M33-P6; D3-M39-P3; D0-M45-P0.
Applicants who do not meet the entry requirements outlined above are strongly encouraged to contact the program leaders via the contact details above.
Applying Direct Option
You can apply direct to Newman University for the full-time route for this course if you have not previously applied to Newman University through UCAS and you are not applying to any other universities.
20 Hours per week.
How do you make change?
80 Credits
(Compulsory)
This module aims to equip students with the knowledge, resilience and self-management skills to make informed choices about their career. It will also act as an introduction to the multiple pathways available to graduates as they plan their transition to employment or further training. As part of this module, students will be encouraged to archive and collate material in a portfolio, as part of which they can keep a record of any professional contacts and collate relevant ideas and research material. They will reflect on the ways in which the techniques used by organisations could or should apply to their own profiles. Students will also be provided with opportunities and time to plan and implement career management strategies for the short and long term. Students will also begin developing the core digital skills that will underpin their work throughout the degree. These include information literacies, including searching, retrieving, critically evaluating information from a range of appropriate sources.
What is the good life?
40 Credits
Students will work to acquire key research methodologies and skills that underpin the humanities, including developing their collaborative and interdisciplinary skills. Students will consider the way in which data shapes our real and virtual worlds. They will be encouraged to take a critical view of the digital age with a long-term historical and cultural approach. Students will also consider how the increased preoccupation with our own unique political and cultural identities has promoted the perception that many people who share our world do not share our worldview. This module explores how the historical and cultural foundations of the West Midlands identity and how that might intersect with wider global narratives. Using local history and regional literature and dialect, students will be asked to identify and explore the construction of regional identities using both real and fictional personalities. Building on concept of the identity politics, students will use broad ideological and temporal frameworks to tell new narratives about their own identities. This module will serve as a way to empower students to contribute to conversations about the relationship and duties owed by individuals to civic society.
What is reality?
20 Credits
Students will interrogate and unpack issues, often developed in consultation with external organisations. Students will develop their ability to work in teams and negotiate as they consider the historical, literary and philosophical context of the issues at hand. Drawing on the skills and content of the humanities subjects, students will critically analyse, research, reframe and recommend resolutions to these real-world issues, while developing their digital skills.
The University is not licensed by the UK Government to sponsor migrant students under the Student route and is therefore unable to accept applications from international students at present.
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