BA History with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year)
Our four-year BA History with Human Rights (including foundation year), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance.
This four-year course includes a foundation year, followed by a further three years of study. During your foundation year, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module, with additional English language for non-English speakers.
You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK.
After successful completion of your foundation year in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course which allows you to explore history and the study of human rights, and to graduate with a strong competence in both disciplines.
When starting year one, you have the opportunity to examine human rights in historical context. Examine how ideas of human rights have developed historically and choose optional modules that relate to the field of human rights. Our course allows you to experience both disciplines, and to graduate with a strong competence in history and the study of human rights.
At Essex we are actively engaged in debates about the meaning of justice in the UK and beyond and our Human Rights Centre is a recognised international leader. Through our work with the United Nations, governments, human rights organisations and corporations all over the world, we bring a global outlook to our teaching.
You have the opportunity to further your interests in history and human rights by studying a wide-range of topics and specialisms, including colonialism, inequality, culture, identity, citizenship and multiculturalism.
We also have an excellent relationship with the Essex Record Office, one of the best county record offices in the UK. Our students love us too - 92% of our History students expressed overall satisfaction with their course (NSS 2020). Our School of Law specialises in human rights law, business law, public law, criminal justice, health law, law and technology, and legal studies.
Our four-year BA History with Human Rights (including foundation year), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance.
This four-year course includes a foundation year, followed by a further three years of study. During your foundation year, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module, with additional English language for non-English speakers.
You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK.
After successful completion of your foundation year in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course which allows you to explore history and the study of human rights, and to graduate with a strong competence in both disciplines.
When starting year one, you have the opportunity to examine human rights in historical context. Examine how ideas of human rights have developed historically and choose optional modules that relate to the field of human rights. Our course allows you to experience both disciplines, and to graduate with a strong competence in history and the study of human rights.
At Essex we are actively engaged in debates about the meaning of justice in the UK and beyond and our Human Rights Centre is a recognised international leader. Through our work with the United Nations, governments, human rights organisations and corporations all over the world, we bring a global outlook to our teaching.
You have the opportunity to further your interests in history and human rights by studying a wide-range of topics and specialisms, including colonialism, inequality, culture, identity, citizenship and multiculturalism.
We also have an excellent relationship with the Essex Record Office, one of the best county record offices in the UK. Our students love us too - 92% of our History students expressed overall satisfaction with their course (NSS 2020). Our School of Law specialises in human rights law, business law, public law, criminal justice, health law, law and technology, and legal studies.
