The School of Creative Arts

🎉 We’re #1! The School of Creative Arts has been crowned the Best Creative School in the UK at the 2024 Global Rookies Awards! 🏆✨ This win also celebrates the world-class facilities that bring ideas to life Together, we’re redefining creativity! #RookiesAwards

📢 The National Student Survey is NOW OPEN for all final year students. The annual NSS survey gathers feedback of final year students across the UK. The survey asks about their university and course experience. Students can access the survey online at thestudentsurvey.com

7 films from our Digital Animation course have been selected at ARUCAD Cinematic Seeds Festival in Cyprus on Feb 23rd! Here's a clip from ‘Eden’ which is just one of the films that's nominated. Other nominations include: Animus Bonez Headlights Heavy Hands Rebirth Shrooms 👏

Each week, our Music and Film & TV students record live music videos with professional bands - all as part of our Propeller Music Sessions🎸🎬 Here’s a sneak peek of an original song written and performed by Ollie Moore, a BSc (Hons) Songwriting and Artist Development student!

This week our Sociology department held a Staff-Student Forum which was a brilliant opportunity to bring together staff and our Year 1, 2, and 3 cohorts for a community-building social.  #Sociology #Humanities #SchoolOfCreativeArts #Community #UniOfHerts

🎉 We are very pleased to announce that 8 films 🎬 from our BA (Hons) Digital Animation course have been selected for the VisiOn Festival! A huge well done 👏 to everyone involved — an incredible achievement!

Students and staff nominations for the Dean's Awards 2026 are NOW OPEN! 🏆 Scan the QR code to VOTE NOW! *Voting is open to current students and staff only. #UHCreatives #UniofHerts #DeansAwards

Creative Freelancing Week is taking place Mon 2nd – Friday 6th Feb 2026! ✨  It will include online workshops , drop-in sessions , and the chance to hear from successful freelancers and their top tips on how to thrive in the creative industry as a freelancer!

Our BA (Hons) Model Design and Special Effects students were very lucky to get a visit from Robotics! Student, Theo Hamilton-Holbrook has been developing these robots as an alternative to therapy dogs. The plan is to have our 2nd year students involved in future development!😍

💡 Our final-year BSc (Hons) Music Production and Promotion students recently spent the day at the d&b Immersive Technology Experience Centre at the Science Museum, exploring how cutting-edge spatial audio is shaping the future of live sound and AV production. ⌨️

It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it... Or is it? 📷 From forensic linguistics to language policy and planning, lexicography, AI language models and more – our highly vocational BA (Hons) English Language and Liguistics course is ranked one of the best in the UK!

The brilliant Brandie shared her experiences studying a BA (Hons) Sociology degree at Herts. ⚡️📷 Brandie already has her dream role lined up for when she graduates! 📷📷#SociologyDegree#Humanities #CareerGoals #StudentSuccess #Sociology

Andy, who studies BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics, talks about their passion for the subject and what’s next🗣️🔮 This course can lead to a wide range of careers including teaching, journalism, publishing, marketing, PR, policing, media, HR, law, speech and more.

What course is Chloe studying? 🧐 Answer correctly and you get immunity from Santa's naughty list🙋‍♀️🎅🏼 #StudentSuccess #StudentInterview #WhatDegree #PresentandPowerful

We were so proud to welcome Herts English Literature graduate, Laide Sadiq, back onto campus this week!🎥🎬 A star in more ways than one 💫🤩 #PresentandPowerful #Humanities #EnglishLiteratureDegree #EnglishLiterature #GraduateSuccess #DreamCareers #EnglishLit #UniLife

Final year BA (Hons) Philosophy student, Ella, talks about her course and the importance of loving what you do. 😍 A fantastic ambassador...Great work Ella 👏 We’ve had lots of amazing success stories from our Humanities degrees, and can’t wait to see what Ella does next. 🎓

If we were all as happy as our BA (Hons) History students were in the National Student Survey*...What a wonderful world this would be! ❤️🌎 #StudentSatisfaction #PresentandPowerful #HistoryDegree #StudyHistory #Humanities #HappyStudents #History

We caught up with undergraduate English Literature and Language student, Danni, whose goal it is to become a secondary school teacher. 🎓 We think you'll do a fantastic job Danni and can't wait to see where your journey takes you next 👏 #EnglishLiterature #EnglishLanguage

Some books can change how we see the world. 🌎📚 For our BA (Hons) Sociology Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Dr Arndt Emmerich, that book was “Gang Leader for a Day” by Sudhir Venkatesh. What book changed you? 👀📖 #SociologyDegree #GangLeaderForADay

Love asking questions and seeing the world in new ways? Our BA(Hons) Philosophy degree could be your calling. 🧠🌎 Learn from passionate teachers as part of a close-knit community, whilst building skills that employers value. ✅ Applications now open for September 2026 entry😍

First up in our What the Book series: Twilight 🖤 Chosen by English Literature & Creative Writing tutor Dr Kaja Frank - proof that the books that change us don’t always look how you expect. What was a book that 'changed your life'? #PresentandPowerful #WhattheBook #EnglishLit