Acting and International Relations

Acting and international relations is an unusual but genuinely coherent combination, bringing together the rigorous physical, vocal, and interpretive training of performance with the systematic analytical study of global politics, diplomacy, and conflict. Acting develops your capacity to inhabit other perspectives convincingly, to communicate complex inner states through the body and voice, and to collaborate under pressure in creative environments. International relations develops your ability to analyse power, governance, and conflict across borders, to understand different national and cultural perspectives on the world's major challenges, and to work with evidence and argument in a discipline where multiple frameworks compete.

At Liverpool Hope University, this four-year, full-time degree includes a foundation year for students who benefit from additional preparation before the degree proper. A sandwich year provides the opportunity for professional experience in either performance or a field relevant to international relations, and work placements are embedded throughout the course. A year abroad is also part of the programme, giving you the chance to study both disciplines in a different cultural and academic environment.

A typical entry tariff of 104 points reflects the programme's accessibility for students with genuine aptitude and commitment across both fields.

This unusual combination produces graduates with a distinctive profile, comfortable with both analytical rigour and creative practice. Careers open to graduates span a wide range: acting, theatre, and screen performance, arts education and community arts, international development, journalism and broadcasting, cultural diplomacy, NGO work, public affairs, and roles in organisations that value both the empathic understanding of other perspectives and the ability to communicate persuasively. Postgraduate study in either performance or international relations is a further option, as is applied theatre, peace studies, or humanitarian action.