History and Media & Communication

History and Media and Communication is a pairing that places two powerful analytical disciplines alongside each other, each illuminating what the other cannot fully see on its own. History gives you the tools to examine how people and societies have changed over time, how events were shaped by the forces of power, ideology and circumstance, and why the past matters to the present. Media and communication studies examines the platforms, technologies and institutions through which information and culture circulate today, and the effects that the structure of the media environment has on what people know and believe.

Together they develop a sharp and well-rounded capacity for critical analysis of how narratives about the world are constructed and contested.

At Liverpool Hope University this three-year full-time degree allows you to explore many periods and themes in history, from the Early Modern era to the present, including nationalism, imperialism, colonisation, decolonisation, gender and identity. You will be encouraged to engage with and challenge competing interpretations, developing the kind of historical thinking that recognises the past as a field of ongoing debate rather than settled fact. Your media and communication study will equip you to analyse the contemporary information environment with the same critical energy.

The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad and a work placement, giving you substantial professional and international experience alongside your studies.

Graduates from History and Media and Communication degrees are well suited to careers in journalism, broadcasting, content production, public relations, marketing and communications, as well as in education, heritage management, cultural organisations and public policy. The degree also provides strong preparation for postgraduate study in history, media studies, journalism, cultural studies or communications.