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Food & Nutritional Sciences and Media & Communication (with Foundation Year)

Course details
  • BA (Hons)
  • 4 Years
  • Full-time including foundation year
  • 09/2026
  • Undergraduate
Course location
Hope Park

Course summary

This is a four year degree taught at our Hope Park campus. The Foundation Year aims to develop your skills so that after a year, you will be equipped with the necessary skills needed for studying the full BA Hons degree programme.

Media & Communication
If you want an exciting career in the media but also want to understand how and why the media reports and represents the world in the ways it does, studying at Hope is the next step for you. Media and Communication provides you with an opportunity to closely study and analyse the ways in which the media industry shapes and is shaped by our world. Our degrees are designed to help you become an industry leader who is equipped to take on the critical task of ensuring a more reliable, trustworthy media industry, and to work as a cross-platform media practitioner.

Our curriculum is taught by lecturers with a reputation for international research and by a practitioner who has made BAFTA and EMMY award winning programmes and animated films. Media and Communication at Liverpool Hope is underpinned by the notion of interrogating power. We believe that the media must always be held to account and has a responsibility to pursue social justice. Whether it be through journalism, digital and social media theory and applied skills, our aim is to produce graduates who will make a better world.

Food & Nutritional Sciences
Knowledge of food and nutritional science is becoming ever more vital, particularly given the increasing awareness of foods role in important issues such as health and disease and environmental sustainability. Consequently, individuals with expertise in these areas will play a key role in a diverse and wide range of professions, such as developing the safe, sustainable, and healthy foods of the future, creating public health nutrition strategies, and designing and implementing evidence-based nutritional guidelines. Our Food & Nutritional Sciences degree is focused on developing a set of practical, professional, and intellectual skills which are needed to develop a successful career in various roles across the commercial food sector and public health, as well as preparation for further study, working as a nutritionist, or pursuing a professional career in dietetics.

The course curriculum is broad yet deep and draws from the food, nutrition, and health sciences, as well as the social and behavioural sciences. There is also emphasis on elements including food product development and the food supply chain, health and wellbeing, sustainability, and the development of professional skills. You will be taught in our state-of-the-art Health Science building, which features specialist laboratories and equipment dedicated to the study of food, nutrition, and health. Those who decide to study for the Single Hons course will also be eligible for direct registration as a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with the Association for Nutrition (AfN).

You will learn from a highly committed team of research-active UK Registered Nutritionists (supported with additional expertise in food science and technology, the biological sciences, and public health). Our staff have a wide range of practical experience and are incredibly enthusiastic about both the academic subject and the quality of your student experience.

Modules

Please visit our website for information regarding the curriculum content.

Assessment method

Students are assessed via a number of methods. Please go to the course link provided for further information.

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

  • Course does not award QTS

How to apply

Apply by
14 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
NF16
Institution code:
L46
Campus name:
Hope Park
Campus Code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation
  • Year 1

International applicants

International applicants should refer to the International section of our website: http://www.hope.ac.uk/international

Open days

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

UCAS Tariff - 72 points

A level - DDD

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MMP

Access to HE Diploma

Qualifications must equate to 72 UCAS points.

Scottish Higher

Qualifications must equate to 72 UCAS points.

WJEC Level 3 Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales

This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications.

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

Qualifications must equate to 72 UCAS points.

T Level - P

Applicants must achieve a minimum of 72 UCAS points for entry on to this course. UCAS Tariff points can be made up from a range of qualifications.

There may be some flexibility for mature students offering non-tariff qualifications and students meeting particular widening participation criteria.

Please contact our Student Enrolment team directly for further information.

t: 0151 291 3899
e: admission@hope.ac.uk

Additional entry requirements

Other
GCSE grade C/4 in Mathematics, English Language and two sciences (Chemistry, Biology, Physics or double award science equivalents). You also need to have, or be studying towards, an A level in a science discipline.

English language requirements

IELTS (Academic), Score: 6 Additional Information: For International students, an overall score of 6.0 is required, with 6.0 in both reading and writing and no individual score lower than 5.5.

Historical entry grades data BETA

This section shows the range of grades students (with UK A-Levels or Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diplomas) who received offers were previously accepted with (learn more). It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place. Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England£9790Year 1
Northern Ireland£9790Year 1
Scotland£9790Year 1
Wales£9790Year 1
Channel Islands£9790Year 1
International£15225Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

For the Foundation Year element of your degree, fees for 2026/27 will be £9,535.
For the remaining 3 years of your degree, you will be charged the full Undergraduate fee each year.

Please note, some of our courses may have additional costs. Please visit the course webpage for further information.

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