Your journey studying Liberal Arts at King's starts here

Congratulations on your offer to study Liberal Arts!

We've curated this hub to provide you with all the information you need to know about your course, including taster lectures, campus tour videos and student blogs.

Although this content was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. Please make sure you check our website course pages or contact us directly for the very latest information.

A welcome from the Head of Department - Dr George Legg

Links mentioned in welcome video

• InterHums Annual Lecture
• Chris Holliday's podcast, Fantasy/Animation
• Our research interests
• Penelope's Opera: amplifying the unheard voices of ancient Greek myth
• Investigations on how visual media was used in the Cold War to influence public opinion in Brazil

Understanding your offer

Please read through our frequently asked questions to help prepare you for making your decision on where to study.

Once you have read through all the conditions of your offer and are ready to start your King's journey, please accept your offer via the King's Apply Portal.

Take a look at the breadth of work the academics have been getting up to in the department recently. 

Dr Pavan Mano

• Watch a recording of a panel I recently hosted at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2025 on the 21^st century Far Right
• Watch my Ted talk on resisting nationalism

Dr George Legg

• My latest publication - about surveillance in the city of London
• Take a look at the social media we did around the publication too on the King's website and Instagram

Dr Emily Pillinger

• Take a look at my new book which explores how music, from opera to hip-hop, has been inspired by ancient Greece and Rome

Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz

• I am collaborating with performance artist Gael Le Cornec on Ecofeminism and Reparative Histories
• I am working on a project on photography during the Cold War, which has a website, an impact report and was a news item on the A&H website recently

Dr Chris Holliday

• I have a website that is an online educational resource examining the relationship between fantasy storytelling and the medium of animation. On the website you can find my weekly podcast, which was recently named one of the top 10 Animation podcasts in the UK, and also my weekly blog
• I was interviewed for The Sunday Times about Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi and the Hollywood ‘showmance’ industry
• I was also invited to review an Aardman exhibit at the London’s South Bank Centre

Tim Huzar

• Practising vulnerability; presuming equality: towards a pedagogy of care in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
• Singular Vulnerability: Notes on the Apprehension of Precarious Life in Global Studies Quarterly

Further reading:

• England’s redesigned banknotes will reveal how the country sees itself - Dr Pavan Mano, Lecturer in Global Cultures, writes an article for The Conversation
• Why I chose to study Liberal Arts - Marko tells us why they chose to study Liberal arts
• What I've learnt as a King's Liberal Arts Student  - Lara writes about what they've learnt so far on their course
• 5 reasons I love studying Liberal Arts - Maisie tells us what it is that they love about their course
• I didn't know what I wanted to study at uni...so I picked Liberal Arts - Rachel tells us why Liberal Arts is the perfect degree if you're unsure of what to study
• Lives of London - Jake tells us about the Liberal Arts BA first year module Lives of London.
• Sanya talks about her reasons behind choosing a Liberal Arts Degree
• Lara talks about her experience studying Liberal Arts BA and the opportunities it has given her
• Dr Christopher Holliday's article about the Bond franchise's next outing - Not yet James Bond's Time to Die: can 007 survive his latest big-screen chapter? 
• Dr Christopher Holliday's article for the LA times discuses why sequels are now more popular than original animated films - Pixar needs original animated hits. They’re much harder to come by at the box office
• Read the blog Build your degree around your curiosity: Liberal Arts BA

Phase is a London-based magazine that highlights the talent of young, emerging creatives. The editorial team is made up of artists, writers, photographers, and student activists drawn together by their time studying Liberal Arts at King’s.

Find out more about how Phase was set up and how the students’ experience studying Liberal Arts shaped the project.

About your course

If you are looking for more information about your course, you can find this on the main course pages:

• Liberal Arts BA

Module lists

Module lists for the next academic year can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' Section of the page. You can use the drop down to select the year that you would like to see the required and optional modules for.

Assessment information

If you want to know more about how your course is assessed, this can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' section of the course page.

Study Abroad

Find out more about our study abroad options here

• Study Abroad

Internships

Find out more about internships here

• Internships

Where could your degree from the faculty of Arts and Humanities take you? Meet Robin Stevens from King's Careers & Employability Centre, who runs through all the services available to help you find your dream job.

• Chat with current students on Unibuddy
• Follow our Arts & Humanities Instagram
• Sign up to an event
• Go on a tour of the Strand campus
• Find out about career paths that students have taken after studying in the department of Liberal Arts.

Sally shows you around the Strand campus, where Liberal Arts in based.