BA (Hons) Global Communication with Business Management with a Foundation Year
Key Details
- Award
- Degree of Bachelor of Arts
- UCAS Course Code
- Q9NF
- Typical Offer
- CCC
- Contextual Offer
- CDD
- Course Length
- 4 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2027
Other Course Options
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Why BA Global Communication and Business Management with a Foundation Year at UEA?
Our BA Global Communication with Business Management with a Foundation Year will help you prepare for your future. Engage with a range of relevant, contemporary, real-world topics and build a strong starting point.
Why choose UEA
- Inclusive atmosphere: Receive personalised guidance and wellbeing support from lecturers who have won awards for their advocacy and pastoral care
- Strong starting point: Equip you for your degree by building strong research and communication skills
- Curate your learning: Sharpen your intercultural insight by combining different subjects and experiencing different academic methodologies
What is BA Global Communication and Business Management with a Foundation Year?
The foundation year is your platform on which to build a toolkit of essential communication and study skills. By forming your own goals and objectives you’ll have the know-how to engage confidently with your interests at degree level. Your learning is in your own hands.
You’ll have the opportunity to pursue your individual language interests within your modules and beyond the classroom. You can also take advantage of activities that develop teamwork, project management, and other practical organisational skills to support your future progress.
Careers
Career Pathways
After graduating with a degree in Global Communication with Business Management, or a similar discipline, there are many roles you could progress onto as you launch your career. For instance:
- Business Consultant: Analyse data, conduct interviews with clients and within companies. Prepare expert advice identifying key areas for change to optimise performance
- Marketing Manager: Combine your creativity and linguistic skills to create cross-language campaigns for a range of organisations
- Communications Officer: Multilingual graduates in NGOs, government or business environments are well-placed to provide cultural competency to companies’ communications
- Reporter: Write, research, and report stories for a variety of media outlets both at home and abroad
- Public or Media Relations Officer: By studying a combination of media, communication and business, you’ll be ideally placed to manage public messaging and media relations, bolstering organisational reputation
Career Support
During your foundation year, you’ll start your journey towards your ideal future career. We’ll help you identify how your academic interests and burgeoning attributes can link to real career possibilities. You’ll have access to networking opportunities, workshops, and personalised one-to-one appointments. No matter what stage you’re at with deciding on your next steps, you’ll be supported throughout your degree and beyond by UEA’s award-winning Careers Service, which offers guidance on CV writing, applications, internships and professional development.
Discover more on our Careers webpages.
After the Course
After successfully completing your foundation year, you’ll progress straight onto the BA Global Communication with Business Management degree. Alternatively, you can request to transfer onto one of a selection of other undergraduate courses within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This may be subject to taking certain required prerequisite modules. If you wish to move onto a degree with Creative Writing, you’ll need to submit a short portfolio of your writing (c. five pages) for approval by the creative writing team. You’ll have an Academic Adviser who will offer you support and guidance through this process. During your BA Global Communication with Business Management with a Foundation Year degree, you’ll develop your own set of unique academic interests and passions, allowing you to be well-placed to progress onto the course that’s the best fit for you. Use the foundation year as a springboard to the degree of your choice and take control of your future studies.
Study and Modules
Structure
During your foundation year, you’ll study a mixture of arts and humanities, language and communication-focused modules. This will ensure you can develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to achieve your full potential during the rest of your degree.
Learn how to manage a successful project. You’ll start with a seed of an idea and then follow it through to its completion, understanding the necessary stages in between. Together with your lecturers and peers, you’ll identify important themes in the Humanities, exploring how diverse media and forms of communication relate to their wider political, social, historical, and cultural contexts. For example, you might study ideology and myth, post-colonialism, gender and sexuality, or power. We also provide you with the space to practice necessary, core skills to build your confidence as you progress with your studies. For example, you’ll learn how to research, write, and properly reference your assignments, as well as how to make the most out of the amazing study and support resources that UEA has to offer.
There will be a range of subject-specific topics for you to choose from throughout your foundation year. You may choose to focus on history, literature, visual cultures or politics. Alternatively, you could opt to study a language. By combining disciplines, you’ll be able to investigate key areas of media, language and communication while gaining an interdisciplinary perspective. This is your opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in subjects closely tied to the rest of your degree or even try something new.
For information on subsequent years of your degree, please see the full BA Global Communication with Business Management course.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 20)Optional B Modules
(Min Credits: 0, Max Credits: 40)Optional C Modules
(Min Credits: 20, Max Credits: 60)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning, and Assessment
Teaching and Learning
We’ll provide a supportive and rewarding learning environment. You’ll study with dedicated lecturers from UEA’s Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities alongside colleagues with expertise in Languages and Communication. Together, they’ll help you shallow out the curve between your previous learning experiences and your future degree programme. Modules are delivered through a variety of methods, with a range of study tasks to prepare you for the different types of learning and teaching you’ll meet later on.
Through seminars, workshops and interactive sessions, you’ll develop key skills in areas such as teamwork, essay writing, research, and critically evaluating scholarly arguments, alongside developing your language knowledge. Your foundation year will be taught by award-winning lecturers who are specialists in their fields. Our teaching is informed by cutting-edge subject research and a strong commitment to innovative and engaging teaching practice.
Your foundation year will be an intensive course. You’ll need to work independently between classes to make sure you’re fully prepared for your taught classes and assessments. We’ll help you to make the most of the resources and facilities available to you at UEA. We’ll support you as you develop your ability to study independently, cultivating skills that will be of great benefit in your degree, and your later career.
Assessment
During your foundation year, you’ll be assessed in a variety of ways. This might include essays, posters, group presentations, reflective work, and if you choose to take a language, oral and written tests. This will allow you to explore different learning styles and become familiar with the format and expectations of degree-level assessment.
We use innovative methods to enable you to learn from your peers as well as from teaching staff. This will help you to build confidence in your abilities and develop into a more independent learner. You’ll receive feedback, allowing you to continue to develop, hone, and improve all aspects of your written and language-based work over the year.
You’ll also benefit from the support of one of the course lecturers as an adviser. You’ll attend individual tutorials to ensure you’re progressing well and are achieving your full potential.
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
UK fee-paying students only. The entry point is in September each year.
We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.
You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.
- English and Mathematics
All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade C or grade 4.
In place of Mathematics GCSE we can also consider Functional Skills Level 2 Mathematics.
We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies(opens in a new window) page.
- Contextual Offers
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes(opens in a new window).
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
A Levels
CCC
Contextual offer: CDD
BTEC
Level 3 Extended Diploma: MMM
Contextual offer: MMP
Access to HE Diploma
Access to Humanities & Social Sciences pathway. Pass the Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
T Levels
Obtain an overall Pass.
- Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements
We welcome applications from students with non-traditional academic backgrounds. If you have been out of study for the last three years and you do not have the entry grades for our three year degree, we will consider your educational and employment history, along with your personal statement and reference to gain a holistic view of your suitability for the course. You will still need to meet our GCSE English Language and Mathematics requirements.
International Baccalaureate
28 points overall
Irish Leaving Certificate
6 subjects at H4
Scottish Highers
BBCCC or above.
A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable
Scottish Advanced Highers
DDD
A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components)
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies(opens in a new window) for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
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- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.
- Progression
Once enrolled onto a course at UEA, your progression and continuation (which may include eligibility for study abroad, overseas experience, placement or year in industry opportunities) is contingent on meeting the assessment requirements which are relevant to the course on which you are enrolled.
Progression from a Foundation Year may also be dependent on meeting the prerequisite module requirements of the course you wish to progress to. Please note subsequent changes to study or course can affect your tuition fee liability and the amount you are required to pay.
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Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2027/28 are:
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UK Students: £5,760
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International Students: £24,250
We estimate living expenses at £1,171 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here(opens in a new window).
Scholarships and Bursaries
We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships(opens in a new window) for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.
How to Apply
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