Foundation year

The foundation year is carefully designed to build your confidence in your abilities, develop essential academic and study skills, and provide the subject specific knowledge essential for success.

You will study within Lifelong learning in the School of Education, where we have nearly 40 years’ experience working with adult learners, helping them to unlock their potential to succeed at degree-level study.

On successful completion of your foundation year, you progress to your chosen degree course.

Courses

Environmental Science with a Foundation Year BSc

Environmental Science with a Foundation Year BSc gives you a broad introduction to the key themes of environmental science.

It allows you to develop the base of knowledge and skills before you take a generalised approach, blending different areas of environmental science, or you can choose to specialise down one of three branches; Global Environmental Change, Environmental Biosciences or Environmental Geosciences.

Environmental Science with a Foundation Year BSc information

Geography with a Foundation Year BA

This course focuses on the many ways to explore our relationships to space, society, politics and culture.

It provides the critical skills with which to appreciate, analyse and respond to the key issues and challenges of our contemporary lives.

Geography with a Foundation Year BA information

Geography with a Foundation Year BSc

This course focuses on the processes that underlie past and present changes in our environment and the technologies we use to observe and understand them.

You will study the prediction of future changes and how societies must respond and manage them.

Geography with a Foundation Year BSc information

Geography and Planning with a Foundation Year BA

This course has a flexible structure and the modules offered are a carefully selected combination of geographic and town planning topics, which offer complementary insights into the processes, policies and practices operating within urban and rural areas.

Geography and Planning with a Foundation Year BA information

Urban Studies with a Foundation Year BA

Study the past, present and future of urban and built environments using cutting-edge theories and practices in politics, economics, design, sociology, environmental studies and geography.

Urban Studies with a Foundation Year BA information

Urban Studies and Planning with a Foundation Year MPlan

From core knowledge and skills, to key issues such as climate change and urban inequalities, this course gives you a practical grounding and a broad intellectual understanding of concepts and practices in urbanism, spatial change and planning.

Urban Studies and Planning with a Foundation Year MPlan information