Dance and Psychology BA (Hons) (with Foundation Year)

DANCE

This degree is designed to achieve an excellence in dance, focusing on performance and choreographic practices you will learn to become an adaptable, reflexive, independent & critical dance artist. You will foster your creativity and discover your signature dance practice. You will be exposed to a diverse range of dance techniques and theories designed to develop your skills, knowledge and understanding. You will undertake project-based learning, professional placements and work towards large scale performances.

You will have regular opportunities to create work and perform in a variety of contexts, professional platforms, touring, community and educational settings.  This focus will develop creative practice and develop awareness between the wider historical, philosophical and cultural practices of the field, while locating dance as an independent discipline that has influenced and informed Performance Studies today. 

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

PSYCHOLOGY

The importance and relevance of psychology to all areas of life and society continues to grow, meaning that an undergraduate degree in psychology will prepare you for a diverse range of careers. The Psychology courses at Liverpool Hope University equip students with knowledge and understanding of human thinking and behaviour. The single honours BSc Psychology course has a focus on applications of psychology and students are supported in their development of skills to apply psychological knowledge to real-life settings. As an alternative, a combined honours Psychology degree at Liverpool Hope allows you to study psychology alongside one of over thirty other disciplines (e.g., Tourism, Criminology, Geography; see the list on the combinations tab for the full range of Psychology combined honours courses) meaning you can choose to study psychology in a way that matches your interests. 

Accredited by the British Psychological Society, the single and combined honours Psychology courses provide an in-depth scientific knowledge and understanding of the core areas of psychology. You will be supported by a friendly team of experienced and research-active lecturers to acquire skills of critical thinking and independent learning. The transferable skills developed through the course will be relevant to a variety of sectors including healthcare, the criminal justice system, education, and marketing.    

You will have the opportunity to enrich your degree through a series of extra-curricular activities, such as working as a research intern, supporting your peers as a mentor, and applying psychology outside the University (e.g., working in groups on an outward-bound retreat and teaching in another country as part of our Global Hope network). You will also have access to the School of Psychology labs where you can gain first-hand experience of specialist psychology techniques and equipment, such as eye-tracking, EEG, and observational methods.