Herts Academic Skills (HAS)

The HAS team can support you with skills development in areas such as writing, reading, researching, refererencing, critical thinking, organisation and time management.  We can also support students with the development of their English language and communication skills. 

The best way to keep up to date on all the support available to you is by adding the Herts Academic Skills home page to your Canvas dashboard. You can enrol yourself on our site via this link: Herts Academic Skills on Canvas

You can enrol and unenroll on the site whenever you like, or you can just visit via the link: http://go.herts.ac.uk/academic-skills

You can also contact us directly by email via HAS@herts.ac.uk

School or subject academic skills teams

• Health, Medical & Life Sciences (HMLS) 
  • LMS
  • HSK
• HAS - Business (formerly HBS CASE)
  • HBS
• Physics, Engineering, Computer Science (SPECS)
  • SASH
• Schools of Law & Education (SLE)
  • HAS 
• School of Creative Arts (CTA)
  • HAS 
• Maths 
  • Maths Support Service
• English language
  • HAS (English language development)

Herts Academic Skills – Getting Started

This is a very short micromodule that should be especially helpful at the start of your course.  The module:

• Introduces you to academic skills and encourages you to assess your skills and needs;
• Introduces you to REFERENCING and PLAGIARISM and allows you to practice the kind of writing you will be assessed on in your university assignments; this is non-compulsory, but if you complete the practice task, you will receive a grade and some feedback which will help you in your future work;
• Shows you how to start communicating effectively at university and gives you an opportunity to start connecting to other students.

LRC academic skills drop-ins

We have academic advisors in the LRCs most days who provide ongoing academic skills support

• Drop into one of the LRC Study Success Hubs to speak to one of our experts about your writing or any other element of academic skills (they are located on the orange chairs).
• Link to the drop-in schedule here. 

When you go to the LRC, it would be good to take the assignment with you so you can discuss it there with the member of staff.

One-to-one consultations 

You can also request a consultation with one of our academic advisors online via our email address HAS@herts.ac.uk. 

If you have any questions or requests, you can use the Canvas site CHAT function or you can email via HAS@herts.ac.uk.