Foundation Welcome Guide : Arrival and your first week

It's important that you enrol as soon as we invite you by email so that we can allocate you to a group and set up your timetable. Invitations to enrol will start to be sent out after Thursday 29 August.

If you enrol before Tuesday 2 September, you should receive your full personal timetables by Friday 5 September. Following enrolment your timetable will initially only show sessions for everyone on the course. In person, on campus and small group online sessions will only be added to your timetable in the weeks after you enrol.

Once you've enrolled, you'll be able to set up your student login to access your email account and more information via the myAUB portal and we'll email you to let you know the time and date for your first on-campus session.

If you have any questions about your timetable or need your timetable group changing then please contact the Foundation Office.

We're looking forward to meeting you all on campus soon. We'd recommend that you make sure you're available to attend on campus or online sessions throughout the whole of your first week (when you get your timetable, you'll have more information about which days you'll be taught and which days you'll have free). At the start of this first week, you'll need to be on campus to meet your course team and fellow students.

Groups and meet-up times and locations will be listed below in August so don't forget to check back!

Please note: Your group number will be confirmed once you've completed your enrolment and gain access to your AUB email account and calendar.

All students will be starting on campus on Monday 8 September at 09.30.

Your first day will consist of:

• A 20-minute welcome session from your course leader.
• A tour highlighting some practical places around our campus.
• Face-to-face registration, where we'll check your details and complete your enrolment at AUB.
• A break to explore on your own and get to know your new coursemates.
• Meeting your course team.

Your course team will let you know of any other activities linked to your course for the first week and make sure you understand your timetable.

During your first day, you'll attend a face-to-face registration session, where we'll check your details and complete your enrolment. You'll need to bring along your identity documents. There are more details about what documents you'll need on the "Next Steps" tab.

If you received a Welcome notebook from us in the post, you should also bring along your Registration Passport. Fill in your name clearly and your AUB ID number to help streamline your registration. Don't worry if you didn't get a notebook or if you've lost your Registration Passport - we'll have some spares available for you to fill in and use on the day.

When you have completed face-to-face registration, you'll be able to swap your Registration Passport for your physical AUB student ID card. This will also be your library card for the duration of your course.

You must bring proof of ID to your registration session. Please refer to our enrolment guide for more information about accepted types of ID and get in touch if you have any problems with bringing along your ID.

We'll also be checking that you have payment set up for any Tuition, Registration or Materials fees. You can find out more about these fees including the links to make payment before you start the course on our Foundation Fees webpage.

During your foundation year you'll be encouraged to move outside your comfort zone and push beyond the boundaries of your knowledge and understanding where exciting opportunities await you. It'll be a year of intense and hard work, where you'll be genuinely challenged while expanding your abilities and refining your progression choices. You'll make friends and collaborate with others, whilst demonstrating your creative ambitions and commitment.

We would ask of you that you use this year to take risks, break creative rules, allow the chance to lead at times and above all have fun!