Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Contemporary Fashion Design and Media and Communication (CF31)

Contemporary Fashion is a dynamic practice-based course that explores a breadth of current themes and issues from inclusivity to adaptable fashion. Centered around the exciting possibilities of adorning the body and exploring materials, students will learn about the fundamentals of designing, making and understanding the role that fashion plays in wider society. The course will encourage individuality, collaborative working and support diverse career trajectories.

Students will be taught by established practitioners and have access to a vast range of equipment, workshops and studios. They will be immersed in a professional environment that enables rich interdisciplinary approaches at undergraduate level. This includes working with live briefs and competitions, as well as engaging with established national and international contacts.

As a Combined Honours Degree, this program offers an exciting opportunity to combine students' fashion practice with other subjects, which will influence their individual approach to fashion and can be tailored to individual interests.

Media and Communication provides students with an opportunity to closely study and analyze the ways in which the media industry shapes and is shaped by the world. Liverpool Hope University's degrees are designed to help them become an industry leader equipped to take on the key task of working towards a more reliable, trustworthy media industry, and to work as a cross-platform media practitioner.

For students who choose to take Media and Communication, they explore the history and theory of film and other visual media, such as photography and animation, and the cultural and creative contexts in which they are produced and consumed. Liverpool Hope University also thinks one of the best ways to study creativity is by making things, so students have the opportunity to make films (drama, documentary or animation), produce photographic portfolios, work in a studio and write screenplays. The university's curriculum is taught by lecturers with a reputation for international research and by a practitioner who has made BAFTA and EMMY award winning programs and animated films.

Media and Communication at Liverpool Hope University is underpinned by the notion of interrogating power. The university believes that the media must always be held to account and has a responsibility to pursue social justice.