Creative Arts and Humanities

Creative arts and humanities at UCL brings together the study of creative practice and humanistic inquiry in ways that are genuinely interdisciplinary. The humanities encompass literature, history, philosophy, languages, and the study of culture across time, while the creative arts include visual art, performance, writing, and design. Studying both together means developing the capacity to think historically and critically about creative works, while also engaging in creative practice with the depth and seriousness that demands.

The combination is less about choosing between making and thinking than it is about developing both simultaneously.

UCL is one of the world's leading research universities, and its Faculty of Arts and Humanities is home to scholars and practitioners working across a remarkable breadth of disciplines. This three-year, full-time programme gives you the opportunity to move across departmental boundaries in a way that few conventional degree structures allow, taking modules from across the arts and humanities while building a coherent personal programme of study. You will develop skills in critical analysis, historical contextualisation, close reading of texts and images, creative practice, and research, and you will be encouraged to make connections across disciplines that more narrow programmes would keep separate.

London's cultural institutions, galleries, theatres, and communities are an integral part of the intellectual environment, and UCL's central London location means that the city itself is a resource for learning in both the creative arts and the humanities.

Graduates from programmes combining creative arts and humanities work in publishing, journalism, arts administration, cultural policy, museums and galleries, education, creative writing, and a range of other fields where the combination of analytical depth and creative capability is valued. Postgraduate study in any of the contributing disciplines is a natural option.