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.
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.
Students can study language and culture through the best and most compelling books and stories of the ages, they will learn to read the world around them actively and critically. Students will come to understand how texts work as well as the key elements of poetry, narrative, theatre and filmmaking. Reading texts from the medieval period to the present, from fiction and poetry to theatre, film, television and the Internet, they will discover how to analyse texts and genres in their cultural, historical and contemporary contexts. Through reading, viewing and writing they will discover how to reflect, imagine and create while learning to develop their voice as a writer. Through mastering different styles students will establish an understanding of how to write in different disciplines and for different purposes.
A major in English and Writing prepares students for any field in which careful reading, clear thinking, and persuasive writing are valued. The University of Tasmania emphases on textual analysis and writing skills conclude English a traditionally strong undergraduate major for any professions requiring advanced communication skills.
