Program Description
About the course
If you want an exciting career in the creative industries, but also want to understand the role that Film and Visual Culture plays in wider society, studying at Liverpool Hope is the right choice for you. Film and Visual Culture is an intellectually stimulating degree that combines practice and theory, giving you the opportunity to both create and analyse a range of cultural texts - from fiction film and documentary, to photography and animation. This degree is underpinned by creative and critical practice. It is creative because it gives you the opportunity to develop practical skills in the fields of screenwriting, filmmaking (drama and documentary), photography and animation. It is critical because it involves the in-depth study of film history and theory, including the way in which cinema intersects with a range of social and political issues. You will graduate with a degree underpinned by academic rigour, but with the transferable skills needed to pursue a wide variety of careers in the creative industries.The degree is taught by leading international scholars and practitioners and you will also benefit from access to outstanding library resources and an extensive range of practical equipment and studio space. Extra curricula activities support the curriculum by widening critical and creative horizons. Recent activities on the degree include fieldtrips to the National Science and Media Museum, Tate Britain, and the Manchester Animation Festival. We also have regular group visits to local film screenings.- Study in the most filmed-in city in the country outside London.- Our local partners include FACT, one of the leading independent cinema venues in the North West.
Course structure
Teaching on this degree is structured into lectures, where all students are taught together, seminars of smaller groups of around 15-20 students, and tutorials which have typically no more than 10 students. You will also have the opportunity to have a one-to-one meeting with your tutor each week, as well as regular local and national fieldtrips.For the Film and Visual Culture part of your Combined Honours degree, you will have approximately 7 teaching hours each week in your first year, which reduces to approximately 6 teaching hours in your second and third years. On top of teaching hours, you are also expected to spend around 14 hours studying independently each week, as well as group study to prepare for any group assessments you may have.
