Foundations is organized into two Divisions, each offering one section of each course. However, students may also proceed into ANY other Faculty of Arts degree program and gain their degree in three years of further study. After completing their year in Foundations, students may, after separate application and acceptance, proceed into other Faculties such as Education , Science , or Commerce . Each year some 600 students enter first-year Arts at UBC with the intention of gaining admission into the UBC Commerce Faculty at the end of the year. Typically only some 100 students are successful, leaving the other 500 having to choose some other degree program.
Foundations allows students to keep the maximum range of options open for their second year.
The 18 Foundations instructors have been chosen for their class room excellence and their dedication to students. All 18 instructors teaching in the 2000-01 academic year will be continuing with the Program in September 2001. Among the benefits Foundations provides is exposure to, and faculty contacts in, a wide range of Faculty of Arts departments and subjects. Foundations thus enables students to make fully-informed choices about their degree programs and their ultimate personal careers. There is no separate application process for Foundations.