Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Media and Communication and Tourism (PN38)

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 programmes 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.

Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and has become one of its biggest sources of employment. Liverpool Hope University's Tourism degree looks at tourism from both management and academic perspectives. It looks at issues such as the structure of the tourism industry; impacts of tourism on people and the environment; the emergence of new forms of tourism to rival the package holiday; tourism destination management and global tourism development.

Liverpool Hope University's degree curriculum embeds material which aims to not only provide an in-depth, up-to-date knowledge on tourism, but also to refine critical thinking and develop students' key transferable skills. The university works closely with local tourism stakeholders to ensure the Tourism degree benefits local societies.