Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities
At the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities, we encourage our students to cross boundaries. Great innovation and progress happens when together we learn from other cultures, disciplines and perspectives, and reach beyond our comfort zone.
Our Foundation Year prepares students for the faculty's BA programmes, giving them the opportunity to connect complex ideas and explore their intellectual potential. We help students to think more deeply and critically, be more collaborative, and look at ideas from many angles.
We're home to areas of study that cross disciplinary lines, from the Centre for Japanese Studies, to the Publishing Project, the Media Suite, Digital Humanities and the East Anglian Film Archive. We also offer interdisciplinary postgraduate courses such as Gender Studies and Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies.
Courses
History of Art (with a Foundation Year)
Gain the skills you need to excel on a degree in History of Art with our Foundation Year pathway. Majoring in your chosen subject, you’ll be given a thorough...
Politics (with a Foundation Year)
You can gain the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to excel in a humanities degree with our interdisciplinary Foundation Year programme. At UEA, we...
History (with a Foundation Year)
Our Foundation Year course will equip you with everything you need to dive into the past and uncover the rich history of many different periods, countries and...
Philosophy (with a Foundation Year)
If you have a passion for Philosophy, but for whatever reason you don’t yet have the grades required for the three-year programme, our Foundation Year will...
Film and Television Studies (with a Foundation Year)
Our Foundation Year offers an alternative route onto our undergraduate courses. You’ll be given a firm and thorough grounding in the skills you’ll need to study...
English Literature (with a Foundation Year)
Our Foundation Year course offers an alternative route onto our BA English Literature degree, and equips you with everything you’ll need on your journey to...
Liberal Arts
Build a unique degree that is aligned with your own intellectual interests and career objectives. A Liberal Arts degree offers you a multidisciplinary university...
Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies
Are you curious about Japan? Would you like to know more about its place in the world and its cultural identity? Whether you are already familiar with some...
Gender Studies
Look at the world through the lens of gender. In the wake of the #MeToo movement and a much wider public discourse on many other gender issues, there has never...
Research

Language and intercultural expert awarded highest teaching accolade
Dr Leticia Yulita, who teaches Spanish and Intercultural Communication in the School of PPL, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, the highest...

Soviet-Ukrainian novelist and Fast Show comedian take centre stage at Noirwich Crime Writing Festival
The ninth Noirwich Crime Writing Festival returns in September, with a special line-up announced today (Wednesday 22 June) featuring an award-winning...

Academic awarded prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship
Dr John-Mark Philo, from UEA’s School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, has been awarded £1.2 million by UK Research and Innovation's Future Leaders...