Successful completion of the Foundation Year will enable you to progress into the first year (Level C) of your chosen honours degree. If you are a full time UK student, you will qualify for student financial support for the full duration of your course (subject to relevant criteria).

A significant part of our Degree with Foundation Year focuses upon core skills such as academic writing at HE level, becoming an independent learner, structuring academic work, critical thinking, time management and note taking.

The Degree with Foundation Year is particularly suitable for those who wish to undertake studies in the following subjects: 

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Science

The Foundation Year is a full-time course and forms the first year of a four-year degree. You will be a student of the University and have access to all the standard support systems and resources that any degree student would be able to access.

Programme structure

Teaching on this programme will be a mixture of lectures, tutorials and individual learning. You will have approximately 12 teaching hours per week, for 24 weeks of the year.

Assessment and feedback

Assessment during Foundation Year includes essays, presentations and portfolio work. You will be given feedback on all of your assessments and have the opportunity to discuss this with your tutor in detail. Most feedback on assessments is provided in written form, although some may be supported by oral feedback. Assessments and feedback at Foundation Year level will provide an understanding of what is to be expected across the other three years of your four-year study.

Applicants must achieve a minimum of 72 UCAS points for entry on to this course. UCAS Tariff points can be made up from a range of qualifications. 

There may be some flexibility for mature students offering non-tariff qualifications and students meeting particular widening participation criteria. 

Applications from International applicants will be considered for Foundation Year study but applicants who require a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK will also have to meet the English Language requirements.

Please contact our Student Enrolment team directly for further information.

t: 0151 291 3899

e:admission@hope.ac.uk

Tuition Fees

The tuition fees for the Degree with Foundation Year for are £9,250.

If you are a student from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, your tuition fees will also be £9,250.

The University reserves the right to increase Home and EU Undergraduate and PGCE tuition fees in line with any inflationary or other increase authorised by the Secretary of State for future years of study.

Additional Costs

On top of your tuition fees, you also need to consider costs such as purchasing books and travel. For subject-specific additional costs, please see the relevant undergraduate course page.

You will also need to consider the cost of your accommodation whilst you study at university. Visit our accommodation pages for further details about our Halls of Residence.

Additional help

For information about funding from the Government, please see our Government help page.

All students will follow 3 strands in their Degree with Foundation Year.

They will choose one from Block 1 (Education, Humanities or Environmental & Health Science), and one from Block 2 (Social Science, Business or Mathematics, Computing & Psychology). All students must take Block 3 - Enhanced Learning.

Block 1

Education

Examples of topics you may cover during lectures, seminars and tutorials in this strand include:

• What is Education?
• Why do we educate?
• Democracy and Education
• Education, Equality and Society
• The Psychology of Learning and Teaching in Educational Settings
• Inclusion and Education
• Teaching and Learning in Practice
• Approaches to Pedagogy
• History of Childhood
• Understanding Children’s Development
• Health and Wellbeing of Children
• Contemporary Educational Issues

Humanities

Examples of topics you may cover during lectures, seminars and tutorials in this strand include:

• What it means to be human
• Humans and animals
• Social justice and poverty
• Slavery and emancipation
• Gender and sexuality
• Thought, emotion and culture
• Human creativity
• Artificial Intelligence

Environmental & Health Science

Examples of the topics that may be studied in this strand are:

Environmental Science

• An introduction to important ecosystems
• Tourism, environmental economics and the natural environment
• Environmental degradation, pollution and environmental management
• Sustainable development – the environmental, social and economic fundamentals
• Laboratory-based practical work and student-led, tutor supported fieldwork

Health Science

• Theoretical and practical explorations relating to biology of the natural world
• Homeostasis
• Human anatomy and physiology
• Energy balance in the human body

Block 2

Social Science

Examples of topics you may cover during lectures, seminars and tutorials in this strand include:

• What is Social Science?
• Studying Social Problems
• Politics and Welfare
• Young People and Society
• Who Gets What? - Social Justice
• Social Divisions
• Health and Social Care
• Work and Employment
• Forms of Social Control
• Understanding Social Issues

Business

Examples of topics you may cover during lectures, seminars and tutorials in this strand include:

• What is business? What is management?
• People in organisations
• Skills for Business
• Business in Context
• What is Marketing?
• Markets, Customers and Consumers
• The Marketing Mix (The 7Ps - Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Physical Evidence, Process)
• Information requirements of business
• Financial Reporting
• Contemporary issues in finance and economics
• Interpreting Financial Statements

Mathematics, Computing & Psychology

Examples of topics you may cover during lectures, seminars and tutorials in this strand include:

Psychology

• How do we investigate behaviour?
• What different approaches do we use in psychology?
• How do we apply psychology to real world issues?
• Considering our internal (brain/cognition) and external worlds (context)

Mathematics and Computing

• Introduction to coding and logical thinking
• Math toolbox for scientists: calculus and statistics
• Functions in mathematics and computer science
• Introduction to artificial intelligence and virtual reality

Block 3

Enhanced Learning

Examples of the following skills may be developed in seminars and tutorials as we explore the Education, Humanities, Social Science and Business curriculum:

• Becoming a learner at HE level
• Time management and planning
• Information retrieval and evaluation
• Reading at HE level
• Academic writing and criticality
• Structuring academic work and note taking
• Referencing and proof reading
• Team work
• Presentation skills

Applications for our Degree with Foundation Year must be made through UCAS. When making an application, you will need to specify which degree you wish to continue onto once you have completed your Foundation Year programme.

Please view our Degree with Foundation Year A to Z for a full list of all available programmes.