Film and Visual Culture and Global Philosophies and Worldviews (Hons) Liverpool Hope University

Overview

The Film and Visual Culture and Global Philosophies and Worldviews (Hons) programme from Liverpool Hope University people who take this course will be well-grounded for the kinds of careers that involve understanding, advocacy and working with different communities – for example journalism, the law, policing, politics, education, human resource management.

Liverpool, of course, is like nowhere else on the planet; it has its unique accent, a biting sense of humour, and an amazing cultural life. And each community that passes through the city leaves something of itself behind, adding to the cultural mix that makes Liverpool a truly global city. That makes Liverpool the perfect place to study how people today deal with all those different ideas and conflicting opinions that pop into the apps on our phones and computers. The roots of Liverpool Hope lie in the work pioneers such as Catholic Archbishop Worlock and Anglican Bishop Sheppard to bring about community reconciliation in the city. 

So, Liverpool Hope is the perfect place to ask how people today find their way through our media-saturated world. Here How do people coexist with others whose worldview is radically different to their own? What makes for a global citizen? What can we learn from people who are very different from ourselves? What can the story and the people of this city teach us?

This Major gives you a chance to delve into these questions. You will explore what can be learned from the ‘wisdom’ of different traditions in our pluralist contemporary world - chiefly by asking how other people have worked through questions like these. This will take you on a journey across the world. You will study in depth how the philosophical and religious traditions of Asia have tackled these questions. You will also look at the ways that Western philosophers and Jewish, Muslim and Christian theologians have explored them. Along the way you will look at how people form - and reform their worldview. You will ask such questions as does scientism lead to a reduction in human capacity for engaging with reality?  Is the Western secularisation model fundamentally colonialist?

Career opportunities:

This degree has been designed to provide its graduates with a sound underpinning in dealing with a wide range of cultures and worldviews that would equip them for any job that required sensible and sensitive understanding of the complexity of world cultures.

Graduates are expected to go on to roles such as; teaching, policy bodies, charity sector, social sector, international organisations, working with global majority organisations both national and international, social marketing, heritage sectors, media and journalism, law and business or into paid or voluntary work in Churches or religious organisations - and to other professions that required an understanding of the role played by religion in contemporary society.