Rebecca Noble, BA (Hons) History student, School of History

>>I chose to come to Kent because when I was looking at different university options, looking at the Kent modules there's a lot of flexibility and choice so there's only a couple of compulsory modules in first and third year and the rest is all optional, and I thought that was really lovely to be able to choose what you wanted to do. I also loved the campus, when I came on an applicant day, I loved the accommodation, the library is great, the centres on campus I really liked.

>>I liked Canterbury as a city, for history it's perfect, it's really historical but it's good for students as well, there's lots going on and it's a city you never get bored in.

>>First and foremost I chose history because I really enjoy the subject, I'm really passionate about it and it's good to do a subject you genuinely enjoy; it makes essay writing and reading a lot easier. The other reason is that I don't know what I want to do as a career and I found that, when I was applying for university degrees, history is a degree that gives you a lot of transferable skills, it's a degree that employers like: they know what they get out of somebody who has a history degree, skills such as communications, working to strict deadlines, essay writing, there's a lot of time management as well, so I think these skills, depending on the career I do end up going into, I think they'll be really beneficial.

>>A recent piece of work that I've done was a seminar presentation for my Civil War module, I found it really interesting because I had to study a wide variety of historians' opinions and what was interesting was there was so many different opinions as to why people allied with a certain side in the Civil War and trying to come up with what I believed was really interesting, and I think that's the great thing about a history degree, you're open to so many different interpretations and it really allows you to formulate your own argument and your own opinion and I think that was what was really interesting in that piece of work.

>>There's a lot of support available for you at Kent. So first and foremost for history students you're ascribed an academic adviser at the start of first year and this academic adviser stays with you for the whole three year study at Kent and they're really good because they get to know your strengths and weaknesses within your writing or presentation style and they can give you hints and tips on how to improve those.

>>The advice I would give a student about to study History at Kent would be to say yes to as many things as you can. The School of History itself is really good in that it provides so many opportunities through things like work experience, job opportunities on campus and saying yes to these things has given me experience in terms of growing myself as a character but also getting to know the lecturers and seminar leaders and I feel this has really benefited me.