3.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Liberal Arts

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) - Liberal Arts

Knowledge is rooted in the experiences of people across the world. It is created from memory, culture, landscape and myth. This knowledge is often split into separate ‘disciplines’ such as those in the sciences, maths, history, geography, literature and art. However, true knowledge does not recognize these boundaries; the world is complex, interconnected and networked.

This course is for students that love studying a variety of subjects, and want to maintain this breadth of knowledge at university. With the opportunity to major in History, Literature, Art History, Philosophy, Politics, Media Studies or Sociology, students broaden their horizons by exploring the ways in which the humanities and social sciences help people to think imaginatively and critically about the world.

Students take modules which cover the historical foundations of the humanities, challenge dominant worldviews, and explore innovative and subversive essays and manifestos. The flexible structure of this course allows students to choose a range of optional modules across literature, film, philosophy, history of art, history, linguistics, politics, sociology and modern languages.

Based within the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre (ISC), the choice is in the students hands: they choose modules based on their own background and interests. Students engage with unusual, controversial, and provocative ideas, so that they can use the humanities and social sciences to become critically aware and possess the tools to change the world for the better.