Joint Subject Undergraduate Degrees

Undergraduate Study

Undergraduate Joint Honours Awards

There are many advantages to choosing a joint honours degree. Joint honours degrees enable you to combine your strongest areas of interest through your subject choices, allowing for greater scope in the career options available to you after graduation.

Available joint awards are listed within the course information pages.

A joint honours award will:

enable you to experience a greater range of study.
provide you with more choice in what you study through the complementary subjects that constitute the award.
create a potentially wider selection of career opportunities and postgraduate study options.
enable you to develop a wide range of subject specific and transferable skills.
allow you the flexibility of maintaining two distinctive study experiences or you may elect to develop a very personal, unique portfolio where work is linked through ideas or subject matter.
provide you with a broader social network of contacts and friends within the University environment.

There are a considerable number of degree programmes some of which share very similar working methods, subject matter and conceptual frameworks, differing only in outcome.

You have the same chance of further success in either subject following graduation whether you are looking for employment or considering postgraduate study. All joint honours awards involve subjects that are mutually complementary on many levels, and learning or achievement in one area can inform the other.

‘I chose a joint honours programme because I wanted to study both subjects to get as much from my three years at university as possible. It is proving to be a rich diet of influence and experiences’ Julie Gough 3rd yr BA (Hons) Contemporary Decorative Crafts and Fine Art

Programme structure

Normally you will spend 50% of your time in each subject throughout the three years. Subject staff from each area define the appropriate core units that will provide you with subject specific and transferable skills, knowledge and understanding relating to each area of the joint award. You won’t have to produce the same amount of work as single honours students in each subject.

Single and joint honours students work with the same staff team; access the same facilities and resources, working alongside each other throughout their studies.

As you study, if one subject begins to take precedence, you can transfer to that single honours award.

More about award types.