The Certificate in Foundation Studies in Tourism Studies will provide you with the knowledge, personal and inter-personal skills and organisational framework upon which to build your future undergraduate Tourism studies.

The primary aim of the course is to provide you with the knowledge base, transferable skills, communicative skills, and general competence to allow you to progress successfully onto the University of Malta's undergraduate Tourism Studies course. The course offers specific training in those core Tourism and Academic English areas where you will require further assistance and development. The course will provide teaching in the subject areas of history, cultural heritage, tourism, hospitality, psychology, communications, economics, accounting, business mathematics, statistics, basic research skills, reasoning, as well as academic English skills. Successful completion of this course will guarantee you a place on the undergraduate degree programme for Tourism studies. The primary aim of the course is to provide students enrolled in this course with the knowledge base, transferable skills, communicative skills, and general competence to allow them to progress successfully onto the University of Malta's undergraduate Tourism Studies course. The course offers specific training in those core Tourism and Academic English areas where these students require further assistance and development.

The course will provide teaching in the subject areas of history, cultural heritage, tourism, hospitality, psychology, communications, economics, accounting, business mathematics, statistics, basic research skills, reasoning, as well as academic English skills. In addition, you will be expected to attend regular tutorial sessions for all study-units. During the tutorial sessions, you will be expected to show adequate revision of the week's work. At the same time, tutorials are intended as scheduled directed learning sessions during which students will be able to apply theoretical and conceptual frameworks as well as practice verbal and written expressions.

This course will include continuous assessment to build up a realistic profile of the student's core abilities and competencies. Tutors will be required to assess students periodically. As the course progresses and the language and subject contents improve, you will be expected to show evidence of higher-level analytical and evaluation skills.

Skills such as the ability to apply their knowledge base and to show evidence of self-directed learning during tutorials will be assessed in the first and second semesters.

Student performance will be monitored continuously by the area coordinator and feedback will be provided through course tutors. This will allow an awareness of the student's approach to learning and the identification of students who are encountering difficulties, so that remedial action such as the offer of small group coaching can be provided.

Successful completion of this course will guarantee a place on the undergraduate degree programme for Tourism studies