Welcome to the University of Hertfordshire's Getting Ready to Study at Herts module. Coming to university is an exciting time: there are new friends to make, skills to learn, hobbies to take up and so many discoveries ahead about your chosen subjects.

Students and staff have worked together on this module to help you prepare for what's to come and to offer some advice about making the most of your time with us. We’ll introduce you to some of the teaching spaces on both of our campuses and guide you through some of the many services available to support you once you’ve arrived.

Each of you come with the existing skill, knowledge and experience that earned you a place with us and we’ll help you build on that. One thing we’ve all been thinking about a great deal lately is the in importance of online communications. We’ll be looking in this introduction about how you can develop your digital skills to participate safely, flexibly and effectively online. You are also reading this on webpages which form part of our online learning environment. We use this across all our programmes, so getting used to it now will really help you when you arrive.

The ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing and complex world is just one of the University's Graduate Attributes – core traits which will offer you plenty of opportunities within and around your study programmes to develop will also be introduce here.

Ready to explore? Simply click on the Units (or on the left menu) and take a look at the videos, quizzes and information we’ve put together to give you a taste of the excitement that lies ahead.

This is a dynamic resource and we‘ll be updating it regularly. Please keep checking back and look out for news items released nearer your arrival date.

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