Digital Creativity and Computer Science

DIGITAL CREATIVITY

Digital Creativity at Liverpool Hope is for students who want to make creative work with technology. You will explore how digital tools can be used across art, design, music, performance, games, interaction and immersive experiences. 

This is a hands-on creative technology degree where you will develop practical projects using areas such as motion capture, haptic feedback, interaction design, data sonification and visualisation, animation, sound design and creative coding. You will learn how to experiment with software, hardware and digital systems, while also building the confidence to explain your ideas and understand the creative choices behind your work. 

Practical seminars act as creative labs, giving you space to test ideas, solve problems and build original digital outcomes. Lectures and tutorials help you understand the artists, designers and technologists shaping contemporary digital culture, including debates around creativity, ethics and new technologies. 

If you are interested in digital arts, creative technology, interactive media, content creation, sound, visuals, performance or user experience, Digital Creativity helps you build a distinctive creative practice for the future. 

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Computer Science gives you the skills to create the systems that people use every day. From web applications and cloud platforms to machine learning models and secure digital services, you will start coding to enable you to build a portfolio of practical work. From day one, you will be programming, working with languages and technologies such as Java and Python before developing your skills to C, JavaScript, React and cloud platforms including AWS.  

As you progress, you will design and build web applications, train and evaluate machine learning models, study computer networks and security, analyse algorithms and learn the mathematics that underpins modern computing.  

In your final year, you will undertake a research dissertation, study emerging topics taught by staff researching in areas such as AI in agriculture and human health, haptics, spatial computing, virtual reality, internet of things, cryptography and software engineering and cybersecurity. 

You do not need to arrive at Liverpool Hope University as an expert; you will receive close academic support in small-group teaching making a real difference to your professional development and future employability. We start with the fundamentals and build your skills step by step. A Year in Industry option is also available, giving you the option of a year in professional employment between your second and final year of your undergraduate degree.