预科课程 在我们四年制的哲学和艺术史学士学位（包括预科课程）中，我们与您一起发展您特定学科的知识，并提高您的学术技能。在预科课程（称为零年级）期间，您会在这些领域获得全面的基础知识，为您在埃塞克斯大学（Essex）的三年制本科学习做好准备。我们的课程为期五年，使您在学习的第四年可以出国学习。该四年制课程包括基础年（零年级），然后再学习三年。在您的零年级期间，您将学习与所选课程相关的三个学术科目以及一个必修的学术技能模块，并且为非英语国家的学生提供额外的英语。
On our four-year BA Philosophy and Art History (including 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 (known as Year Zero) to prepare you for a further three years of undergraduate study at Essex. Our five-year version of this course enables you to study abroad during your fourth year of study.<br><br>This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study. During your Year Zero, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module, with additional English language for non-English speakers.<br><br>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.<br><br>After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with our School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies.<br><br>You study the disciplines of philosophy and art history together in order to appreciate the relationships between them with a degree of critical awareness. In so doing you are offered a unique approach to develop skills which are now vital in a society dominated by the visual image and visual forms of communication.<br><br>You will be taught by our expert staff in your very first year, a rarity in UK art history courses.