Dance and Sport & Physical Education BA (Hons) (with Foundation Year)

DANCE

This dance degree is designed to achieve excellence in dance, focusing on performance and choreographic practices that shape you into an adaptable, reflexive, and independent dance artist. Throughout the dance course, you will foster creativity, develop your signature practice, and engage with a diverse range of techniques and theories to build knowledge, skills, and understanding.

With project-based learning, professional placements, and opportunities for large-scale performances, the dance course offers hands-on experience in multiple contexts. You will regularly create and perform work across professional platforms, touring, community, and educational settings. This dance degree also connects creative practice with the wider historical, philosophical, and cultural frameworks of the field, establishing dance as a discipline that continues to influence and inform Performance Studies today.

Hear from student Frances Shephard about what it's like to study Dance at Hope.

SPORT & PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Our Sport and Physical Education degree gives you deep knowledge of how sport, physical education, and activity affect individuals and society. You will explore the impact of sport at various levels, from grassroots to elite. This includes individual, team, organisational, and community aspects. You’ll explore these topics using both practical and theoretical methods. Areas include:

- Sport psychology

- Performance and technique

- Sport analysis

- Sport management

- Sociology

- History

- Coaching science

At Liverpool Hope University, you gain practical and theoretical skills based on solid research. You will explore various principles and practices in different sports. The Sport and Physical Education degree covers important topics. These include applied and theoretical sport psychology, performance, technique, and management. It also touches on sociology and coaching science.

Throughout your studies, you’ll examine how sport, physical education, and activity influence individuals and society. You’ll also discuss ethical issues related to competition, participation, health, and well-being. Your instructors are experts in their fields and published academics. You will have full access to our advanced Health Science Building and Sports Complex, featuring research spaces, teaching labs, a strength and conditioning suite, and a fitness centre.