**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/**Politics**Politics at Keele explores fundamental choices about power and how we are governed. Politics is not just the concern of politicians. It is about big issues such as the environment and human rights that affect every individual. Political activism and governmental decisions change lives and whole societies. You will engage in conversations around power, leadership, policies and political action and why they operate as they do.**Why choose this course?** - Global Top 300 for Social Sciences (Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings, 2022)- Opportunity to tailor your programme based on your interests and career aspirations- Discover diverse cultures through an International Year at one of our partner universities across the globePolitics at Keele seeks to understand society and the events and forces which shape it, engaging with questions of power, justice, conflict, legitimacy, accountability, and governance. You will explore why citizens are increasingly disillusioned with politics; what a democracy is; when and how it’s legitimate to protest; and the effects of different models of government. You can tailor your studies to your interests, whether theoretical, historical or oriented to specific issues.Our academics are active researchers, with expertise in environmental politics, European and American politics and international relations. Design your degree programme to pursue your interests and build your knowledge across a range of areas, ready to pursue a variety of routes after university.**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.

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