Program Overview

Foundation in Humanities

Overview

Keen to study a humanities subject but not sure about your options? Join our 1-year course to explore and get the skills you need to continue to a degree. Learning how to research, evaluate and communicate is a key part of your studies. How does literacy influence cultures? Are nations created by law and governance, or habits and customs? What can philosophies and religions teach us about being human? These are some of the big questions you’ll explore.

Why Oxford Brookes University?

• Freedom to explore
• Say goodbye to exams
• Tailor your modules
• A breadth of expertise
• Shape your own research
• Learn a language

Course Details

Course Structure

Start your first semester with an introduction to the latest thinking in English literature and drama, history and history of art, and English language and communications. Through these modules you’ll explore cultural moments throughout history. Discover how our emotions are shaped by religion and science, and critically analyse a range of theories and texts.

In your second semester, you’ll have the chance to explore the areas that interest you with some optional module choices. Maybe you’ll want to focus more on your interest in social science, or perhaps you’ll want to try our new climate crisis module – where you can discover the global history of the environment.

Learning and Teaching

You’ll experience a wide range of humanities disciplines through:

• Lectures
• Workshops
• Tutorials
• Project work
• Presentations
• Group seminars
• Supervised independent learning
• Critical thinking tasks
• Skills acquisition sessions

Assessment

You’ll be mostly assessed by coursework, including:

• Essays
• Reflective logbooks
• Critical commentaries
• Video assignments
• E-portfolios
• Small group projects

Study Modules

Semester 1

• Being Human: Love, Sex and Death
• Cultural Moments
• Language, Vision and Representation
• The Reflective Learner

Semester 2

• Nation and Identity
• Research Project
• Optional modules:
  • Customs, Icons and Symbols
  • Origins of the Climate Crisis: A Global History of the Environment
  • Young Children's Outdoor Learning
  • Development Studies
  • French beginners 2
  • Spanish beginners 2
  • Global Issues
  • Modern British Art
  • Political Philosophy
  • Creating Criminology 2

Careers

The Foundation in Humanities course opens up further courses for you and prepares you for degree-level study. After successfully completing the course, you’ll be guaranteed a place on one of our 3-year undergraduate degree courses in humanities or social sciences.

Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff Points: 48
• A Level: DD
• IB Points: 24
• BTEC: PPP or MP

How to Apply

• Full time Home (UK) applicants: Apply through UCAS
• Part time Home (UK) applicants: Apply direct to the University
• International applicants: Apply direct to the University

Tuition Fees

• Home (UK) full time: £5,760
• Home (UK) part time: £720 per single module
• International full time: £16,750

Funding Your Studies

• Oxford Brookes Bursary for Continuing Students
• Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students
• Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students
• Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students
• Oxford Brookes Bursary for New Students

Additional Costs

• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) initial check: £54
• Print/binding costs: From £30
• Books: £20-60 per book
• Accommodation fees: £94-265 per week
• Graduation costs: Typically £0-200
• Travel costs: From £10