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Humanities

Liberal Arts & Sciences

BA/BSc Liberal Arts and Sciences

3 years

€2530 pa

Programme profile


Employers today are seeking globally-minded employees who can take an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving, reflecting their deep understanding of the key issues in today's society. More and more universities in Europe are embracing the concept of a liberal education at university level for exactly these reasons. A liberal education provides the competences needed to tackle the increasingly complex issues being presented by global society.

This is an interdisciplinary programme. This means that you will learn to examine issues using insights from multiple academic disciplines or schools of thought, whether they are insights from philosophy, culture, economics, or law. In doing so you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the whole social, cultural, and economic environment in which we live. With your ability to examine complex issues from a range of different angles, you'll have a more well-rounded understanding of the world, and be in a better position to help solve its most pressing issues.

Besides interdisciplinary modules, students will specialise in one of five diverse Majors (specialisations):

- Social Sciences: Human Behaviour
- Law in an International Context
- Arts and Humanities: Past-Present-Future
- Business and Economics
- Cognitive Neuroscience: Brain and Cognition

Programme content


The first year offers a core curriculum that introduces you to a variety of subjects within different scientific disciplines. While exploring these different disciplines, you discover what kind of academic path you wish to pursue. Based on this experience, you will choose a major in the second year and specialise in one of five disciplines:

Social Sciences: Human Behaviour
This major focuses on the ways in which we establish our identity in a globalised society. It fundamentally challenges your ideas on human identity and behaviour and draws on perspectives from sociology, social psychology, culture and communication studies, human resource management, and organisation studies

Law in an International Context
Within this major you will focus on law as a social and cultural phenomenon, within a global context. You learn about the integration of cognitive, cultural, historical and contextual elements within the law, and the response of different legal systems to specific social and global problems and issues.

Arts and Humanities: Past-Present-Future
This major focuses on the various strategies that we deploy to interpret and give meaning to the world around and within us. These strategies underlie and condition everything we think, say and do, including our use of technology and social media.
The programme introduces you to core concepts, theories and methods of disciplines such as culture studies, digital humanities, history, hermeneutics, philosophy, ethics, literature studies, art history, and ritual studies

Business and Economics
In this major, you immerse yourself in marketing, accounting, finance, and management, as well as the economics of markets and countries. The major connects economic and business insights. After all, governments create opportunities for business(es), and organizations contribute to addressing social issues – business is intertwined with economics. Links are also made with the general and societal context, bringing in views from history, law, psychology, and sociology

Cognitive Neuroscience: Brain and Cognition
Cognitive Neuroscience aims to understand how the human brain supports processes such as perception, action, attention, affect, decision making, language, reasoning, and social behavior. It also studies how these processes develop throughout a lifespan, and what happens when the brain dysfunctions.This major examines a wide range of topics such as the fundamentals of the human brain and of behavior, experimental psychology, clinical neuropsychology, cognitive science, and computer modeling and programming. These topics are taught by lecturers who are well-versed in these fields and in the accompanying research methods

in the third year, you are free to explore your interests in a minor program, giving you a unique profile.  Most students use the first semester of the third year to study abroad at one of Tilburg's partner universities, across the world.

Progression


The university offers related Masters programmes, taught through English, in the following areas:

- International Management;
- Strategic Management ;
- International and European Labour Law;
- International and European Public Law;
- International Business Law;
- Law and Technology;
- European Urban Cultures;
- Human Resource Studies;
- Leisure Studies;
- Organisation Studies;
- Sociology;
- Management of Cultural Diversity;
- Human Aspects of Information Technology;
- Language and Communication;
- Theology

Entry Requirements


3 A-levels + 3 GCSE's. Subjects to include GCSE Maths. Note, their are some subjects that Tilburg doesn't accept (check with EUNICAS)

Scottish Students are required to have a SQC with 2 Advanced Highers {Grades A-C] and at least 4 Highers [Grades A-B]. Subjects to include Maths.

Six subjects at Leaving Certificate, including at least two at H4. Note, their are some LC subjects that Tilburg doesn't accept (check with EUNICAS)

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01 October

15 June