2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - History with Human Rights (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) - History with Human Rights

Students have the opportunity to examine human rights in historical context. They can examine how ideas of human rights have developed historically and choose optional modules that relate to the field of human rights. The course allows them to experience both disciplines, and to graduate with a strong competence in history and the study of human rights.

Within the history modules students discover both the early modern and modern periods, and explore challenging questions concerning the impact of political, social and cultural change on individuals, social groups, and regions.

Students engage in a discourse on human rights, from political, sociological, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. They are presented with the theoretical foundations, substantive knowledge, and evaluative tools for them to understand, respond to, and help shape national, regional, and international legal and political developments.

At Essex they are actively engaged in debates about the meaning of justice in the UK and beyond. Their Human Rights Centre is a recognized international leader. Through their work with the United Nations, governments, human rights organizations and corporations all over the world, they bring a global outlook to their teaching.

Students have the opportunity to indulge their interests in history and human rights by selecting modules from a wide range of specializations, including:

• Colonialism and the British Empire • Urban life in Germany • Global distributive justice and human rights • The protection of human rights in the UK • Freedom of thought and expression

At Essex they specialize in business law, public law, criminal justice, health law, law and technology, socio-legal studies and human rights law.

Their School of Law is ranked top 20 in the UK for research excellence (REF 2014, mainstream universities, THE 2014), and they are ranked among the top 200 departments in the QS World University Rankings by Subject (2020).