Course Overview

During our four-year BA History and Literature (including the foundation year), we work with you to develop your subject-specific knowledge, and to improve your academic skills. You receive a thorough grounding in these areas during your foundation year to prepare you for a further three years of undergraduate study at Essex.

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.

In your history modules, you discover both the early modern and modern periods and explore challenging questions concerning the impact of political, social, and cultural change on individuals, social groups, and regions.

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers a varied, flexible, and distinctive curriculum focused on developing your abilities in literature, as well as film, creative writing, and drama. As part of our creative, practice-based approach, we encourage you to form your own critical and artistic responses to texts. We offer you the chance to write your own story in response to studying Arthurian Literature; to edit never-before-edited sonnets from the 16th century; and to hold history in your hands by working with our valuable collection of original books from the time of Shakespeare.

General Eligibility

UK and EU applicants:

• All applications for degree courses with a foundation year (Year Zero) will be considered individually, whether you

• think you might not have the grades to enter the first year of a degree course;

• have non-traditional qualifications or experience (e.g. you haven’t studied A-levels or a BTEC);

• are returning to university after some time away from education; or

• are looking for more support during the transition into university study.

  Standard offer:

• Our standard offer is 72 UCAS tariff points from at least two full A-levels or equivalent.

• Examples of the above tariff may include:

• A-levels: DDD

• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: MMP

• T-levels: Pass with an E in core

International & EU entry requirements

We accept a wide range of qualifications from applicants studying in the EU and other countries. Get in touch with any questions you may have about the qualifications we accept. Remember to tell us about the qualifications you have already completed or are currently taking.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 5.5 overall.