Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808) + Bachelor of Arts with Honours - International Relations (R4A) (030426C)

Program Description Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808):

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 with Honours - International Relations (R4A): 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.

The International Relations program will give students the tools required to understand and have an impact on current global challenges and opportunities. In the first year students will learn about the vast array of actors, institutions and ideas that shape world politics. In the second and third years students have the opportunity to explore further key areas of global politics like international security and law, human rights, the global politics of China or the international political economy.

Studying international relations will help students to develop skills in researching and comparing cross-national policies and societies; analysing and evaluating complex sustems; and autonomously researching, writing and presenting. These transferable skills will equip students to work in government, private businesses, NGOs, public institutions or wherever solutions to global challenges are sought.