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Degrees that span Arts and Science

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Itsunlikely · 25/03/2022 15:48

Does anyone have suggestions of degrees where you can combine Arts and Science? Apart from Joint Honours or Liberal Arts or similar. DD is aware of Architecture, Games Design, Graphic Design - various kinds of Design frankly, Medical Illustration. Recently Linguistics has come up as an idea and we see that for some courses Maths, Science, English Lang and MFL are all seen as useful.
Obviously you can do lots of degrees having studied a mixture of A Levels, but what can you do that carries that combination on?

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HeadNorth · 25/03/2022 19:26

Product Design Engineering- joint across Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art.

butterfly990 · 25/03/2022 19:29

Town planning

Blimecory · 25/03/2022 19:35

Psychology
Sociology
Social Policy
Architecture
Linguistics
Education

Wbeezer · 25/03/2022 20:06

Had anyone mentioned Service Design?

Potcallingkettle · 25/03/2022 20:16

Another vote for Archaeology and Anthropology. Both will have options that take you down arts or sciences.

monkeycat · 25/03/2022 20:29

Cognitive Science can be done as a humanity or a science.
Social policy with Quantitative Methods or with Economics.

SophiesMummySaid · 25/03/2022 20:30

Dentistry

FoundYouThen · 25/03/2022 20:35

BSc Accounting and Finance

Chilver · 25/03/2022 20:36

Landscape Architecture. And no, it is not about landscaping peoples gardens! Its about designing the spaces between buildings, public realm, and natural environments, from vast habitats to small scale highly architectectured and engineered spaces for people. Its a good mix of science and the arts - on any given day you are designing taking into account acoustics, geotech engineering, ecology, environmental impact, economics, transport planning, wayfaring, heritage etc etc

thecurtainsofdestiny · 25/03/2022 20:37

My daughter did Linguistics and a language

spacehardware · 25/03/2022 20:39

Philosophy

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 25/03/2022 20:40

Town Planning

ItsWorkNotAParty · 26/03/2022 09:47

Have a look at the new Design Tripos at Cambridge. Not sure when it starts as it's new but sounds amazing. It's been developed to be absolutely what you are talking about. My DD would have loved it. The grade requirements will be high.

Itsunlikely · 26/03/2022 14:00

Thanks, lots of ideas.

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/03/2022 18:57

Not so much a course, as a career/profession - Patent officer/lawyer, requires skills in law and science/engineering.

JemimaMuddledUp · 26/03/2022 19:07

DD is looking for similar ideas as her favourite subjects are Biology and History. She's been looking at Anthropology.

Moonlaserbearwolf · 26/03/2022 19:19

Geography. From a broad base of a-levels (chemistry, French, English and geog), I went on to read Geography at university - specialising in climatology, epidemiology, ethnology and historical geography.

I don't think you can get much broader than that! It didn't help me when choosing a career...

CottonSock · 26/03/2022 19:21

Geography and possibly with environmental science joint.

NCTDN · 27/03/2022 10:59

Just out of interest, why not liberal arts?

Itsunlikely · 27/03/2022 11:10

Nothing against Liberal Arts, it's just that she knows about it already. We were looking for something we might not have thought of.

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Thissucksmonkeynuts · 27/03/2022 11:17

Conservation type studies, museum sciences, art and object conservation, buildings conservation . I work in a related field, I absolutely love it, my studies covered the practical hands on work on objects, the chemistry/biology and physics around the subject, historical and social context of the area of work and studying written and iconographical sources.

DalarnaHorses · 27/03/2022 11:19

I know you've mentioned design. But can I just put a vote in for product design, there's so much snobbery on MN about some degrees. But product design is a fantastic subject and so wide-ranging, lots of science around materials used and physics in the ergonomics and use of objects. It's not always just about style and consumerism, but can also be about designing products that can really change people's lives.

Can you tell this is my subject 🤣

Thissucksmonkeynuts · 27/03/2022 11:25

Oh, and the ethics of conservation element of the study and work han be huge too if that's her thing.

Soma · 27/03/2022 16:19

UCL offer a BA in Arts Science - www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-sciences/

BertieBotts · 27/03/2022 16:33

UX design, UX research, product design, service design. All closely linked, and something I would have dismissed previously because the name doesn't sound like much/sounds very computery, but essentially it's looking at what people actually do when they use something and how to design for that, which I find absolutely fascinating.

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