ILAS 2018 Liberal Arts and Sciences introductory brochure | Page 9

INTERDISCIPLINARY DEGREES LIBERAL ARTS AND NATURAL SCIENCES INTERDISCIPLINARY DEGREES: LIBERAL ARTS AND NATURAL SCIENCES These inspiring new degrees build upon Keele’s founding commitment to a broad education which encourages our students to look beyond their own subjects and fields. These flexible programmes allow students to choose pathways which reflect their interests and which enable them to develop a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills. The Grand Challenges programme is at the heart of these innovative courses and here the Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences students come together at the Institute at Keele Hall, the former stately home on our beautiful green campus. Stimulated by the interdisciplinary approaches offered in the Grand Challenges lectures,students work in their joint learning sets to explore their ideas and generate fresh thinking and novel responses to today’s urgent questions. Natural Sciences students choose from a range of physical sciences, biology and geosciences 9