LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY Undergraduate Prospectus 2016
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LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY Undergraduate Prospectus 2016 YOUR FUTURE STARTS WITH HOPE Open Days Our Open Days provide potential students and their families with a great opportunity to fi nd out about life at Liverpool Hope University. On the day you will be able to get advice on: Meet the team • Your chosen course You can meet the Student • Entry criteria and applying Recruitment team at UCAS fairs and • Funding your studies other events held around the UK. • Accommodation options The team can also arrange individual • Learning support or group visits to the University or • Planning your future career. deliver workshops at schools. There will also be guided tours of For more information, please contact Hope Park and the Creative Campus the Student Recruitment team: including the sports facilities, libraries, accommodation and t: 0151 291 3111 subject-specifi c areas. e: [email protected] Most importantly, there will be the chance to meet with current students who will be able to tell you what it is like to study at Liverpool Hope University. More information is available at www.hope.ac.uk/opendays Open Day dates • Wednesday 24th June 2015 • Saturday 27th June 2015 • Saturday 12th September 2015 • Saturday 3rd October 2015 • Saturday 24th October 2015 1 Hope Park 1 Gateway Building 2 EDEN Building 3 Hilda Constance Allen Building 4 Sheppard–Worlock Library 5 Residential Accommodation 6 Lecture Theatre Complex 7 Sports Hall 8 Business School 9 New Science Building for 2016 9 7 5 4 STAND PARK ROAD 3 TAGGART AVENUE 15 2 HOPE PARK TAGGART AVENUE TERENCE ROAD 6 1 5 OULTON ROAD 8 IRENE ROAD 5 WOOLTON ROAD GREEN LANE NORTH 5 CITY CENTRE Schematic maps, not drawn to scale The Creative Campus 1 Security Lodge 2 Residential Accommodation 3 Cornerstone Building 4 Capstone Building CITY CENTRE NEW ISLINGTON A580 CARVER STREET COLLEGE STREET SOUTH 3 2 1 SALISBURY STREET SHAW STREET SHAW THE COLLEGIATE COLLEGE STREET NORTH 4 LANGSDALE STREET HAIGH STREET SALISBURY STREET How to FindUs Hope Park More travel Hope Park Campus is situated on Taggart information Avenue, Childwall, Liverpool, close to Queens Drive (A5058) at the end of the For more information about travelling to M62. From the city centre, it is easy to get Liverpool, visit the following websites: buses from Queen Square Bus Station, National Rail which go to Childwall Valley Road or www.nationalrail.co.uk Woolton Road/Taggart Avenue. Broad Green Railway Station is situated just over a National Express mile away from the campus. www.nationalexpress.com Address for Satnav – Taggart Avenue Public Transport in Merseyside L16 9JD. www.merseytravel.gov.uk Liverpool John Lennon Airport The Creative www.liverpoolairport.com Ferries across the Irish Sea Campus www.poferries.com The Creative Campus is less than a mile www.stenaline.co.uk away from Liverpool’s main railway station, Liverpool Lime Street. Situated at the junction of Islington and Shaw Street, the campus is within walking distance of the station or a short bus ride from Queen Square Bus Station. Address for Satnav – Shaw Street L6 1HP. 4 Contents Open Days 1 Student Support 27 Campus Maps 2 Careers and The Employability Hub 31 How to Find Us 4 Development and Study Contents 5 Opportunities 33 Welcome to Liverpool 7 International Students 35 Bring This Prospectus to Life 9 Liverpool Hope Alumni Association 38 Why Choose Liverpool Hope? 11 What our Students Say 39 Seeing is Believing 13 Studying at Liverpool Hope 41 Academic Excellence 15 Course Information 43-102 Partnerships 16 Admissions Policy 104 Living in Liverpool 17 Terms and Conditions 107 Hope Park 20 Index 110 The Creative Campus 21 Study Combination Chart 111 Accommodation 23 Contact Us 114 Libraries 25 5 6 Welcome toLiverpool Hope University As the Vice-Chancellor and Rector of Liverpool Hope, I am proud of our reputation for high quality scholarship that is growing around the world. I am delighted to be part of this University. At Liverpool Hope, we pride ourselves on We are a community, where we support the academic formation of our students one another, celebrate each other’s and we are constantly working to ensure successes and work together to reach our you receive the best teaching and learning full potential. We are the only ecumenical experience. We believe that a supportive university foundation in Europe. Our learning environment will provide the best excellent academic record and supportive results and that individual care is the key pastoral care are complemented by the to success. beautiful setting of our campuses. We are incredibly lucky to be surrounded by a wealth of both historic and modern architecture and stunning grounds that make Liverpool Hope a very special place to study. I wish you every success as you start your university studies and look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool Hope. Professor Gerald J Pillay FRSA DL PhD DTheol Vice-Chancellor and Rector 7 8 Bring This Prospectus toLife To discover more about a course, scan the QR code on the relevant course page. 1 2 DOWNLOAD APP If you don’t already have a QR Reader, download the app onto your smartphone or tablet device. WATCH THE VIDEO Scan the QR codes to visit the webpage for each course and watch the videos. You can also view all the course videos and more on Liverpool Hope University’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/liverpoolhopeuni1 9 10 Why Choose Liverpool Hope? We believe Liverpool Hope is a very special place to learn, a place that offers excellent academic standards combined with the pastoral care and support of a collegial community. Here are just a few reasons why you should make Liverpool Hope your university of choice. Scholarly Traditional yet excellence modern We pride ourselves on scholarly We are proud of our rich heritage but we excellence and strive to be the best in are not stuck in the past. We combine the everything we do. best of our history with the contemporary to create a dynamic institution that moves with Well-rounded the times. education A beautiful setting Education is more than studying and Our University offers incredible campuses we provide our students with the support with beautiful grounds and architecture. to develop skills and interests beyond their studies. Christian values Celebrating the We are proud of our Christian foundation and individual are open to those of all faiths and of none. We are a real collegial community and Research-informed each person within our University is treated as an individual. teaching We bring together research excellence and top-quality teaching in all of our departments. 11 Discover more Scan this QR code with your smartphone or tablet to watch a fi lm about the University and hear why our students chose Liverpool Hope. 12 Seeing is Believing Building on the success of recent years, we continue to be a University with ambition, ensuring our students get the best teaching and learning experience possible. 1 University of Manchester 2 Lancaster University 3 University of Liverpool 4 Liverpool Hope University 5 University of Salford Ranked 4th for research intensity in the 6 Liverpool John Moores University North-West 7 Manchester Metropolitan University 8 University of Central Lancashire source Times 9 University of Chester Higher Education 10 Edge Hill University 11 University of Bolton 12 University of Cumbria Average UCAS entry points in 316 2012/13 313 311 310 306 301 Liverpool Hope Liverpool Plymouth Portsmouth Ulster Edge Hill Chester 13 Over 1 London Business School £50 million 2 The University of St Andrews invested in buildings from 3 The University of Manchester 2008 to 2014 Imperial College of Science, 4 Technology and Medicine 5 The University of Warwick 67% 6 Courtauld Institute of Art of academic 7 The University of Bristol staff have a doctorate, 8 The University of Sheffield placing Liverpool Hope in the top 20 of 162 9 The University of Oxford universities with the most 10 The Queen's University of Belfast Doctoral-qualifi ed staff 11 University of Durham source HESA Staff in 12 The University of Aberdeen Higher Education 2012/13 13 The University of Liverpool 14 Institute of Education 15 The University of Nottingham BEST 16 The University of Southampton RETENTION 17 University of London (Institutes and activities) RATE 18 Liverpool Hope University against benchmark 19 The University of York of all universities in 20 The University of Birmingham the North-West in 2013 6:1 92.8% of students either in Ratio of applications to places employment or further secured at the University in 2014 study after six months of graduation in 19:1 July 2013 63% Ratio of applications to places for Social Work in 2014 of graduates awarded a First or Upper Second Class Honours in 2013/14 14 Academic Excellence Liverpool Hope places great emphasis on the bringing together of research excellence and top-quality teaching. This is facilitated by a community of academics and scholars who are of the highest calibre, with experts recruited from around the world. In the national Research Excellence The University has a number of research Framework (REF), more than a third of centres. These include, but are by no research produced at Liverpool Hope means limited to: was rated as world-leading (4*) or • The Andrew F. Walls Centre for the internationally excellent (3*). The Times Study of African and Asian Christianity Higher Education’s analysis of the REF • The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre has also ranked us fourth in the North- for War and Peace Studies West for research intensity. For more • The Social and Ethical Enterprise information about our REF success, visit www.hope.ac.uk/REF Development Centre (SEED) • The National Centre for Christian Education This research excellence informs our • The Centre for Applied Research in teaching to enable our students to develop Security Innovation (CASI) into rounded and employable graduates • The Social-Economic Research Centre who can take their places confi dently as (SERCH) global citizens in the 21st Century.