You have the option to add a Year in Computing to your degree programme. This is a free-standing, self-contained year, offered to students from other Schools in the University and can be taken after Stage 2 or 3 (that is, between your second and final year, or after your final year). During the year you will work exclusively within the School of Computing, returning (if you took it between Stage 2 and 3) to your home School and registered degree, and ultimately graduating (if successful) with your current degree title augmented, becoming, for example, ‘History with a Year in Computing’.

This is a specially designed programme which will take you further than simply being able to code. By concentrating teaching around web technologies you will work with both back-room, business-focussed, and front-end, user-focussed, software: you will not only how to use advanced computer technologies, but also how they work.

Working with web technologies means you will be exposed to an entire collection of software. In the back room, this means understanding computer operating systems and networks, learning a programming language, storing and manipulating data, and integrating with a Web server. At the front-end it means producing web pages using HTML, CSS and Javascript that work well, look good and are easy to interact with.

For more details see https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/ug/year-in-computing.html or email YearInComputing@kent.ac.uk.