Foundation Studies Program (Fast Track) - Arts (X0G:1) (0100809) + Bachelor of Arts - History (A3A) (001694A)

Program Description Foundation Studies Program (Fast Track) - Arts (X0G:1) (0100809):

The Foundation Studies program is a direct academic pathway to first-year undergraduate degree study, or an equivalent. The program acts as a bridging course for international students who wish to study a university undergraduate degree course but who don’t yet meet academic requirements and/or have the English language skills for tertiary study.

To successfully complete the program, students must achieve a 50% pass in all units, including English.

Upon successful completion of the course, graduates can enter one of the University of Tasmania’s undergraduate degree courses.

Bachelor of Arts - History (A3A): At the University of Tasmania, students will be part of an academic community that cares deeply about the topics that they teach and study.

Students will learn to influence cultural and social change, and students will gain the knowledge and creativity to envision better futures. Students will take on the world’s cultural, environmental, and humanitarian challenges from multiple perspectives and gain the confidence to make a positive difference. In first year, students will have the opportunity to visit Country with an Aboriginal Elder or knowledge holder as part of the University of Tasmania's curriculum's reflection of the value and place of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives.

The Bachelor of Arts will equip students with a range of specialised and transferable skills that are highly sought after by employers: creative thinking, respect for multiple perspectives, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Students will study History program and they will understand the whole world by understanding the long-term changes and continuities that shaped today. Historical knowledge is a vital component of cultural literacy, broadens student’s mind, fosters the capacity for empathy and equips one to be a global citizen. Historians are like very open-minded detectives: questioning, analysing and interpreting evidence from the past. When someone cries 'fake news', students will have the skills to find evidence from a range of sources to reconsider the claims of the present. They will also have the inexplicable joy of encountering the unexpected and the unknown. It has never been more urgent to understand the past so that we have the ability to make new futures.

Through the History program at the University of Tasmania students will gain a sophisticated sense of their location in time and place, and will become skilled in historical research, critical analysis and communication of ideas. Students will develop skills in researching a variety of historical evidence that is becoming increasingly accessible in digital forms. Students will learn to analyse sources and issues, and fluently express their ideas in discussions, essays and other forms of communication.