See the educational objectives for the BSc and BA degrees.
Course structure
The combined course for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science will normally be four years full-time study or eight years part-time study. An honours degree in either arts or science will require one further year of full-time study. Except with the permission of both faculties, students will be required to complete the combined course within ten years.
Students must study a minimum of three first-year disciplines offered by the Faculty of Science and two first-year disciplines offered by the Faculty of Arts, over the duration of the course; only four will be taken within the first year of study. Within science at least one first-year discipline must be chosen from the laboratory-based disciplines of biology, chemistry, geology, physics and psychology.
A major (three-year) and a minor (two-year) sequence will be taken from the disciplines of each faculty. One of the minors, in either Arts or Science, will normally be continued as a major sequence. Students will thus study three major sequences and a minor sequence, over the duration of the course. They may be eligible to graduate with either a BA or a BSc after three years, depending on the subjects studied.
The Faculty of Arts will normally require arts studies to be chosen from the list contained in schedule A, part I of the Bachelor of Arts regulations. The Faculty of Science will normally require science studies to be chosen from the list contained in the first schedule of the Bachelor of Science regulations.