2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Social Change (Placement Year)

Program Description For students who've finished high school but don’t meet the entry requirements for university, a Foundation Certificate can help them gain entry to an undergraduate degree. After completing this pathway option students qualify for progression to the 1st year of an undergraduate degree at the University of Essex.

A student’s course length is determined mainly by their English language level (UKVI IELTS score). Students on all course lengths take a set of common or similar modules to gain a solid base of skills for university. Students taking a course longer than 2 terms, will take additional modules designed to improve one or more of their English language level, academic skills, and basic knowledge of particular subjects.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Social Change

On this flexible degree, students will broaden their knowledge whilst acquiring the tools required to address today’s pressing social problems, transform society and make a positive change in an increasingly globalized world. Through social action projects and by participating in group community projects, students will gain practical experiences and develop the high-level transferable skills required to make a real-world difference. Along the way, they’ll build the skills needed to take on global challenges as an effective social change leader.

BA Social Change will equip students with the theoretical and practical skills required of a future change-maker. Throughout the course they’ll cover key areas including but not limited to:

• Community engagement • Sustainability • Human rights • Social justice • Individualism

Based within the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre (ISC), this course enables students to explore social change across multiple disciplinary perspectives. The flexible structure of this course allows them to choose a range of optional modules across sociology, philosophy, history, politics, human rights, literature and more.