Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Music and Philosophy and Ethics (WVH5)

As a world-renowned city of music - with active and increasingly growing popular, classical, jazz, electronic and experimental music scenes - Liverpool is an ideal location for pursuing the creative practice and study of music. The BA Music Program at Liverpool Hope University will offer students the opportunity to explore the many facets of performing, composing, producing, and intellectually engaging with music across a broad range of topics and genres, including popular, classical, jazz, electronic, and world music traditions.

The program benefits from a unique, creative scholarly approach that features: • An inclusive outlook towards genre that allows students to pursue their musical interests. • A wide-ranging approach to music study that develops diverse skills in performance, composition and academic study. • A variety of opportunities to perform in and compose for university ensembles, student-led ensembles, and other musically collaborative experiences. • A team with multifaceted interests in music that are pursued professionally beyond the university setting.

Philosophy and Ethics explores the big questions of life and morality. It challenges students to examine their assumptions, opinions and worldview.

Through close attention to the primary texts of philosophers such as Plato, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche, Liverpool Hope University's Philosophy and Ethics degree will help students learn to analyze and evaluate arguments, and to compose and communicate their own ideas in a reasoned way. They will have a grounding in the foundational questions of philosophy. As students progress, they will look in depth at philosophy of religion, political philosophy, applied ethics and issues of human personhood, artificial intelligence and animality.

The degree is taught by a core team of critical academics who are passionate about teaching and are internationally recognized researchers and writers. This degree will equip students with the intellectual skills and perspectives needed to face the ethical and ideological challenges of the contemporary world.