Media & Communication and Sociology

Media and communication studies combined with sociology offers a uniquely powerful analytical toolkit for understanding the contemporary world. Media studies asks how information and culture are produced, distributed, and received through different platforms, and how media shapes public knowledge, political life, and social identity. Sociology asks why societies are structured as they are, how inequality is produced and sustained, and how collective life organises itself through institutions, culture, and power.

As the current course description notes, Liverpool provides a particularly rich environment for studying these subjects: a city with a strong cultural identity and a growing media and creative sector.

This three-year full-time programme at Liverpool Hope University includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, giving you an exceptionally rich combination of professional and international experience alongside your academic studies. Liverpool's cultural vitality, its connections with music, film, and media industries, and its position as a city that has experienced the full range of social and economic change makes it a genuinely interesting place to study media and society. With a typical tariff of 88 points, the programme is accessible to students who are motivated and curious about how media and society interact.

You will study media theory and history, journalism and digital media production, social theory, the sociology of culture and everyday life, research methods, and the intersections between media representation and social inequalities of class, race, and gender. The practical placement and sandwich year experiences give you direct exposure to how media and communications organisations operate professionally.

Graduates from media and sociology programmes move into careers in journalism, broadcasting, public relations, content creation, social research, policy, the third sector, and a range of roles in the creative and communications industries. The year abroad and placement year often open international connections and direct routes into employment. Postgraduate study in media, communications, or sociology is a natural further step.