Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Media and Communication and Special Educational Needs (LP5H)

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.

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. Curriculum is taught by lecturers with a reputation for international research and by practitioner who have 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. Liverpool Hope University believes that the media must always be held to account and has a responsibility to pursue social justice. Whether it be through journalism, digital and social media theory and applied skills, their aim is to produce graduates who will make a better world.

Special Educational Needs (SEN) at Liverpool Hope University is an interdisciplinary subject underpinned by the work of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS). Studying Special Educational Needs at Liverpool Hope University will enable students to develop an understanding of the complex relationship between disability and society. They will explore the ways that disability studies can inform people's understanding of the medical and social models of disability and learn the importance of this in working with children with so-called special educational needs. The degree incorporates insights from education, the arts, humanities and health care, to ensure students gain a critical understanding of the relationship between disability and education.