Acting and Media & Communication

Acting and media and communication together prepare you for a creative and professional landscape in which the boundaries between performance, content creation and audience engagement are increasingly fluid. Acting trains you in the core craft of bringing characters to life across stage and screen, developing voice, movement, text analysis and the collaborative discipline that professional performance demands. Media and communication gives you the analytical and practical tools to understand how messages are made, distributed and received across different platforms, and to work creatively within those systems.

At Liverpool Hope this three-year full-time programme combines performance training with the study of media industries, digital communication, journalism, film and the theoretical frameworks used to analyse them. You will develop skills in acting through practical workshops, rehearsal and performance alongside academic work in media studies and communication theory. The programme includes a sandwich year, providing an extended professional placement that could be in performance, broadcasting, production, digital media or a related industry.

A year abroad gives you an international perspective on both the performance traditions and media landscapes of a different culture. Work placement experience is built into the degree. A typical entry tariff of 104 points reflects the programme's accessible and practice-focused character.

Graduates of this combined programme are well placed for careers in acting, directing, presenting, broadcasting, digital content creation, social media management, public relations, arts administration and education. The combination of performance craft and media literacy is particularly valuable in a professional environment where performers increasingly need to understand and navigate the platforms that carry their work to audiences. Postgraduate study in theatre, media, film or performance is an option for those who want to develop their practice or pursue research, and the placement and year abroad experiences give graduates a meaningful head start in a competitive creative industries job market.