History and American Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University is a thriving Department which combines high quality teaching with internationally recognised research. Students in the Department also have the opportunity to spend time in North America if they are taking American Studies as a single honours subject or combining it with History or another subject such as English.
The Department's programmes have been consistently highly rated in terms of their quality and variety. This includes outside assessors such as External Examiners and also internal quality audits. Teaching in History and American Studies has also been highly rated in the National Student Survey. In the latest NSS results American Studies at CCCU was given a 100% satisfaction rating by students for its courses. Teaching quality and feedback to students were also highly rated.
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008) amongst universities in Britain, 75% of the publications of staff within the Department were rated as internationally excellent or significant and the remaining 25% were rated as of national significance.
Both the History and American Studies programmes are broad in their scope. The former includes courses in medieval, early modern and later modern history as well as archaeology while American Studies students are able to focus on US history from the American Revolution to Barack Obama or take other courses in US politics, foreign policy, film, literature or art. American Studies students are also able to go on the annual American Studies trip to New York, San Francisco or Washington DC. (See Time in USA| for further details).