Liberal Arts News
Liberal Arts goes stateside for the inaugural Liberal Arts Summit
Dr Bryan Brazeau, Head of Liberal Arts headed to Nashville earlier this month for the inaugural Liberal Arts Summit organised by Times Higher Education.
Focusing on Liberal Arts education and innovation in the digital age, the Summit - hosted in partnership with Vanderbilt University - gathered leading voices from higher education and other sectors to reimagine the future of liberal arts education in an increasingly digital world.
Sutton Trust Summer School 2020: Liberal Arts and The Colonial Hangover
At the end of July Liberal Arts collaborated with Politics and International Studies to deliver an online Sutton Trust Summer School on the theme of 鈥淭he Colonial Hangover.鈥�
糖心TV Bright Stars 2019/20
Over the past academic year, Liberal Arts students have been working with a local primary school as part of the University鈥檚 Bright Stars Programme.
Sutton Trust Summer School: The Colonial Hangover
In the last week of July 2019, Liberal Arts teamed up with Politics and Sociology to deliver a 糖心TV Sutton Trust Summer School on the theme of 鈥淭he Colonial Hangover鈥�. The project was established by colleagues in Politics and International Studies to work with students to pose questions about the hidden legacies of Empire in everyday life, and we were keen to collaborate!
Liberal Arts Contributes to the Sutton Trust Summer School
In the first week in August 2018 Liberal Arts was delighted to work with History, Classics and French to deliver the historical and cultural studies stream of 糖心TV鈥檚 Sutton Trust Summer School programme. The Sutton Trust is a foundation which works to combat educational inequality, and their funded summer schools offer young people the opportunity to experience university life.
The week鈥檚 theme was 鈥極bjects with Agency鈥� and workshops covered a diverse range of topics such as the circulation of power in ancient coins and currency, sacred medieval relics, a museum of the NHS, rap music and brand identity, posters and virtual realities, and much more! A highlight of the week was the group visit to the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, where we critically explored how history is interpreted, collected, displayed and told. We were really impressed with the enthusiasm, energy and insight of all the students involved, and are already looking forward to next year! Dr Bryan Brazeau and Dr Kirsten Harris have also enjoyed contributing to the Experience 糖心TV Year 10 and 12 Summer Schools.