Welcome

Foundation Year

Head of programme

Emma Folwell

Emma Folwell

The foundation year team welcomes you to Newman University! We’re looking forward to meeting you and working with you in your first year at university. You’ll be assigned a personal tutor once you’ve enrolled and you can expect to hear from them with more information about your welcome to Newman. You will be introduced to the core teaching team in the first few weeks of study. However, you can expect to work with a number of tutors and experts throughout your degree.

Emma Folwell is Head of Introductory Programmes at Newman. Emma is currently working on a project exploring transnational ideology in the mid-twentieth century. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Award 2018/9, supporting research and teaching at Elon University, North Carolina in the spring of 2019.

You can contact Emma with any questions you may have about studying Foundation Year: e.folwell@newman.ac.uk.

Module Information

From September to December, for your first semester at university, you’ll be working on two modules. One will involve exploring big concepts including education and identity. You’ll be working with your personal tutor and tutor group to develop your confidence and the academic skills you need to succeed in higher education. In the other module, you’ll be working with lecturers from your degree subject to develop your understanding of the foundations of your chosen degree.

Semester 1 Timetable

For on campus activities students are split into groups at enrolment. Each group will have its own timetable. In addition to your subject times below you will also be allocated a seminar group which will involve 2×2 hour seminars, plus a 1 hour seminar each week. There are also three hours of online activities to complete each week in your own time, and you’ll see these on your timetable. Normally classes will be distributed across 3-4 days per week between 9:00am-17:00pm.

Full details of your individual academic timetable will be available on mynewman after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login.

Subject sessions:

Education: Wednesdays 9:00-11:00am

Criminology: Mondays 10:00am-12:00pm

Youth (Youth Work, Working with Children, Young People & Families & Working with Children, Young People & Families and Counselling): Tuesdays 15:00-17:00pm

Psychology: Wednesdays 11:00am-13:00pm

Health & Social Care: Fridays 9:00-11:00am

Law: Thursdays 15:00-17:00pm

Humanities (English, Applied Writing, History, Theology): Mondays 9:00-11:00am

Sport: Mondays 10:00am-12:00pm

Business & Accounting: 9:00-11:00am

PRE-COURSE ACTIVITIES AND READING LIST

There is a pre-induction course which will give you a chance to find out more about your foundation year, and the services available at Newman: Preparing for University.