Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Arts (OPC)] From Maynooth University

Being adaptable and reflective are key requirements in today's workplace and by fully engaging with your Bachelor of Arts programme at?Maynooth University, you will best position yourself for graduate employment or graduate studies once you complete your BA degree.?

We have further enhanced your opportunities to develop key skills through our Critical Skills, Electives and Experiential Learning options:

• Critical Skills: optional, first year only. 15 credit course, with a specific focus on developing skills such as effective communication, creative thinking and problem solving - skills that will benefit you in your learning and future employment.
• Elective Streams: optional, second year only. 10 credit short course outside your main subjects which allows you to expand your university education and broaden your perspective. Compatible Electives will depend on the timetable for your choice of?subjects in MH101.
• Erasmus or Study Abroad year after second year: optional. Graduate with a BA International after four years.
• We are developing our Experiential Learning programme to include: Community Based Service Learning, Enquiry/Project Based Learning, Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement and Volunteering.

• If you would like help deciding on your options, the dedicated Programme Advisory Office are there to assist students in making decisions regarding the best combination of subjects to suit them.

Career Options

Over the course of your three or four year degree you gain valuable skills including the hugely important ability to think critically and analytically. Our Arts graduates emerge as flexible thinkers who are ready for the challenges of the modern workplace in the years following graduation. Apart from professions requiring specialist training such as engineering and science, most career options are wide open to Maynooth?s Arts graduates. With about 40% of graduate jobs open to any discipline, the quality of your degree and your ability to communicate your experience is often far more important than the content of your subjects. Arts graduates find employment in:

• Human resources & training
• Finance
• Psychology
• Law
• Marketing & advertising
• Business
• Publishing & information
• Librarianship
• Teaching ? primary & second level
• Social policy
• Leisure
• Travel & tourism
• Media & communications