**Foundation Year**Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.**International Students**For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/**Law with Social Justice**Explore societal challenges and develop your knowledge and awareness of social justice alongside studying foundational legal subjects. You will develop your legal knowledge, exploring fundamental legal topics alongside specialist social justice modules. Practical opportunities such as our Community Legal Outreach Companion Keele (CLOCK) initiative will allow you to develop your communication, analytical thinking and self-confidence.**Why choose this course?**- Global Top 250 for Law (Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings, 2023)- Study the seven foundations of legal knowledge required by The Bar Standards Board- Wide range of career enhancing opportunities: Legal Advice Clinics, Community Legal Outreach programmes, practical legal skills competitions and placement schemes- Tailor your degree to your interests and career aspirations, through an extensive choice of modules- State-of-the-art facilities including a moot courtroom and dedicated law library Our Law with Social Justice programme reflects the School of Law's commitment to socio-legal scholarship, challenging inequality and promoting social justice. This programme enables you to study an LLB that develops your knowledge of foundational legal subjects and provides a range of specialist modules on the theme of social justice.Throughout this programme you will enhance your critical thinking and develop your research and legal writing skills. You will analyse legal and non-legal resources and effectively communicate opinions, judgements and arguments, while developing an expertise in the role of law and policy in delivering social justice. You will develop your skills through both classroom based and practical experiences, allowing you to demonstrate the application of law in real-world scenarios.**About Keele**Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Foundation Year