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Philosophy, Politics, Ethics BA(Hons)

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Intro

What does ethics mean in a world divided by war and inequality? Can philosophy help us to answer the most pressing questions of the twenty-first century? Students of Philosophy, Politics, Ethics address a range of political problems in a critical, interdisciplinary environment.

Guided by internationally renowned staff, and taught in small seminar groups, you develop skills in public-speaking, debating, and critical analysis – this develops your capacity to solve real-world problems and is relevant for a wide range of careers.

The first year provides key skills and knowledge. In the second year you begin to specialise, choosing from option pathways. In the third year, you continue your option pathways and also carry out an independent project. Guided by a supervisor you will become an expert in your chosen area of research, preparing you for life after graduation.

Our student community is friendly and diverse. There are many opportunities each year to organise and attend events, where students meet and work with international scholars, politicians, activists and writers.

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Key facts

Location Brighton: Moulsecoomb

UCAS code LV25

Full-time 3 years

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The seminar format has given me the ability to think on my feet, the confidence to present my ideas to people, and the skills required to quickly and clearly articulate complex ideas. It's been really beneficial for interviews and job applications. I honestly can't recommend the course enough.

David, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics degree BA(Hons)

Course content

Course structure 

You will be taught in small, participatory seminar groups to foster skills in oral presentation, debating and listening. Every seminar is supported by a preceding lecture.

Your academic work will be supported by workshops that develop your academic and independent research skills.

Year 1
All degrees within the humanities programme area share a first year. Students take six modules that develop the skills central to our courses. These include topics such as historical and philosophical inquiry, cultures, democracy, narrative and society

Year 2 
In year 2, students choose two option pathways to follow for the rest of the degree. Pathways are a set of modules in a specialised area that give students a deep, critical engagement with the subject.

Final year
Students complete their year 2 option pathways and undertake a dissertation. Project findings are presented in an oral exam that tests skills of presentation, communication, discussion and debate.

Our courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis in order to make sure that what you learn with us is relevant and that your course enables you to develop appropriate skills. When you apply to study with us, we will inform you of any new developments in your chosen programme through Student View.

 

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Year 1

In year 1 of the Philosophy, Politics, Ethics degree course you take six modules that help develop the skills central to your course.

Modules

  • Philosophical Inquiry

    This module introduces you to key topics in philosophy. Studying moral and political philosophy will enable you to explore questions such as How can I act ethically? and Could a more equal society be built? Philosophy of science and epistemology will empower you to interrogate arguments behind various truth claims encountered today. You will explore Plato, Hume, Kant, Utilitarianism; inquire into the nature of art and freedom; and interrogate philosophy’s historical complicity in sexism and racism.

  • Democracy

    This module introduces you to the histories and contexts within which the concept and practice of democracy developed. You will study classical, republican, liberal, anarchist, Marxist, communitarian and global conceptualisations of democracy, in each case examining their relevance to our current political circumstances. You will explore the cultural preconditions for democratic freedoms and the representation of democratic values in different social and political movements.

  • Globalisation, Conflict and the Environment

    This module introduces key concepts, theories and questions in international relations and global studies. You will interrogate and evaluate the political implications of different approaches for the study of key aspects of our contemporary world. You will explore how concepts and theories are applied to contested global issues, such as environmental sustainability and war/conflict. 

  • The Politics of Representation

    This module introduces you to political, historical and structural approaches to the study of narrative and representation. You will critically reflect upon how the stories we encounter construct particular visions of our world. Focusing on issues of narrative, ideology, language and semiotics, you will explore textual and visual forms, including television and film, news media, the internet, imaginative fiction and photography.

  • Historical Inquiry

    This module will introduce you to the practice of historical inquiry through an exploration of various approaches to the study of crisis and conflict in the mid-twentieth century. You will explore the dilemmas that the study of conflict poses for global and transnational history; the impact of war and crisis on social, gender and race relations, and the international order; and the ways in which memories of this period act in the contemporary world.

  • Studying Cultures

    This module introduces fundamental concepts and methods in cultural studies. Through a case study of Britain in the counter-cultural period of 1968–74, you will explore conflicts involving questions of ‘race’, national identity, gender, class and youth. Focusing on the distinction between lived cultures and cultural texts, you will relate the practices and values of everyday life to the workings of ideology within narrative forms including girls’ magazines, a novel by Angela Carter and a James Bond film.

Year 2

In year 2 you will choose two option pathways to follow for the rest of your degree – one specialist pathway from the named degree and one from the wider humanities programme. As well as the pathways, you’ll take core modules and start the research for your final-year dissertation project.

Core modules
Critical Traditions in Western Thought 1 and 2 explore some of the key debates and concepts in history, culture, politics, and philosophy since the Enlightenment.

Option pathways
Choose one specialist pathway from:

  • Self and Society
    This pathway examines the roots of genocide and natural selection in Darwin’s evolutionary theory and the advances offered by Freudian psychoanalysis. From there you will consider the way the ‘respectable’ self is constituted through resistance to negative concepts such as madness, criminality and sexual perversion in the work of Foucault, and policed by the war on terror, torture and bioethics.
  • Morality, Politics and the Good Life
    This option begins by considering how Plato mapped out a ethical worldview in The Republic and asks what social justice requires of us in a contemporary global context. You then explore the moral and philosophical aspects of pressing social and political issues relating to the human body.
  • Critical Theory and Radical Politics
    This pathway introduces you to the history of critical theory and radical resistance movements. You start the emergence of critical thought in the Enlightenment and explore the development of this tradition through the French Revolution and the emergence of Marxism right up to the turbulent postwar era of the 1960s and 70s.
  • Politics, History and Ideology
    This option examines the dominant role and effects of ideology in modern world history. The year starts with a close study of the rise and fall of European global hegemony from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. It then moves to an exploration of the multi-faceted history of the Cold War.

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  • Race and Resistance
    This option focuses on racism, what it is, how it works and how it can be contested. You will start by studying the evolving conceptualisation of ‘race’, racism and strategies of resistance, and from there you will examine the diverse histories of racism and resistance through case studies, and study the post-imperial experience of ‘race’ in France and Britain.
  • Philosophy and Literature
    How do literary texts – fiction, drama and poetry – ‘do’ philosophy? In what ways do philosophical works engage with literature? Focusing on the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, you critically explore these questions in relation to shifting concepts of the individual in relation to ideas of reason, faith and freedom, liberty, transgression and expression.

And one from the wider humanities programme – you will either follow this option for all of year 2 or you can choose the Humanities Placement: Active Citizenship module and study the option pathway for a semester:

  • War, Violence and Mass Killing
  • Culture and Conflict
  • Terror and Terrorism
  • Literature, History and Social Change
  • Globalisation, History and Identity
  • Global Politics
  • Politics of the Past
  • Radical Histories
  • Contemporary Global Challenges

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Placement

During your second year you can choose to take the Active Citizenship module. This is a 50-hour professional work placement at a not-for-profit organisation.

Your placement could be at a local charity, a non-governmental organisation or a community organisation. Students have taken roles at organisations including Art in Mind, Pathways to Independence and Screen Archive South East.

The university’s Active Student service will help you to find the right placement opportunity, and you will be offered support in putting together your application and your CV and cover letter.

You will have fortnightly academic seminars where you reflect on the links between academic theory and practice, and on the skills you have developed on placement.

Final year

In your final year, you continue studying your option pathways developing and extending the work started in year 2, inviting deeper engaged reflection through seminar discussion and coursework essays on the broader themes you have examined.

Specialist option pathways

  • Self and Society
    This module begins by looking at Marxist and post-Marxist theories, concentrating on developments in Marx’s own thought and subsequent post-Marxist critique in the areas of art and aesthetics, culture, and education, and horizontalist social movements. We then focus on feminisms, from classical liberal feminism and second wave feminism in liberal, socialist and radical forms, to more recent developments in Black feminism, postmodernism and ‘queer theory’, ‘French feminism’ and the phenomenon of ‘post-feminism’.
  • Morality, Politics and the Good Life
    In the first term you'll explore surveillance, education, gender, welfare and poverty, and extremism and our everyday complicity in sweatshop labour, torture and war. The second term focuses on military intervention, female sweatshop labour, urban gentrification/slummification and peasant dispossession.
  • Critical Theory and Radical Politics
    During the first term, you'll focus on the emancipatory and political potential of bodies acting together, and the emergence of bio-political, materialist and post-feminist, queer and critical race theories. The second term is an exploration of emerging transnational resistance to dominant forms of globalisation; focusing on contemporary populist struggle between left and right in the Americas and Europe; decolonial studies and the politics of affect and identity.
  • Politics History and Ideology
    What is the role of the US as the dominant world power? This module explores the rise of the US global dominance in through the bipolarism of the Cold War and the subsequent era of neoliberalism, examining key debates about the end of the USSR, the effect of globalisation on the world order, and the strength of US power today.

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  • Race and Resistance
    This module considers the politics of inclusion and exclusion through the study of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the place of the Irish in Britain, contemporary Islamophobia and the politics of ‘race’ in the United States. Drawing on the black Marxism, Black Feminism, Critical Race Theory and ‘Whiteness Studies” we evaluate the Civil Rights movement; and other landmark events such as Hurricane Katrina; the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in 2008 and the rise of #blacklivesmatter.
  • Philosophy and Literature
    How and why does philosophy become pre-occupied with language, structure and its own status as text, and how does this lead a number of thinkers to explicitly theorise philosophy through literary writing? What would it mean to think the human through the condition that we share with (non-human) animals, rather than in opposition to them? What is a cyborg, and why has much contemporary literature and philosophy become preoccupied with this figure? What are the politics behind this decentring of the traditional subject of humanism?

In your final year of the Philosophy, Politics, Ethics degree you will also complete and submit a dissertation, developing specialist knowledge on your chosen subject and learning valuable research method skills. You also take part in an oral exam: drawing from a theme in your dissertation, you will prepare and deliver a presentation and take questions. In preparing for this you learn presentation, communication, discussion and debate skills, invaluable for job interviews and future employment.

Meet the team

Our staff are widely published in global politics, philosophy and history. You will be designated a personal tutor (normally the same throughout the degree) with whom you will meet regularly to discuss your academic progress.

Dr Clare Woodford, joint course leader

Clare’s research is primarily motivated by concern about the relationship between inequality and violence and unrest and how this plays out in advanced capitalist democracy. In a more general sense she is fascinated by concepts of social order and disorder; finitude and the edges of being and knowledge; the inter-play of faith, reason, belief and action; performance and politics and the varied ways in which social animals communicate with one another and both make themselves (or fail to make themselves) understood and how we seek (or fail to seek) to understand others. See Clare's full profile.

Podcast: listen to Dr Clare Woodford, Principal Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), discuss some of the issues in politics today and the undergraduate and postgraduate courses Brighton offers in politics and philosophy.

Dr Mark Devenney, joint course leader

Mark's main research interests are in contemporary political philosophy, with research expertise on critical theory. Mark has presented this work at conferences, in summer schools and in the form of publication across the world – his first book was Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory, an edited collection of works on terrorism and contemporary political theory. He has a forthcoming book entitled Towards an Improper Politics. He has been a visiting lecturer at Victoria University, New Zealand, and at the University of Essex. He has also been invited to present papers in the United States. See Mark's full profile.

Other staff who teach on the course include Dr Michael Neu, Dr Zoe Sutherland, Dr Joanna Kellond and Dr German Primera Villamizar.

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Here Dr Vicky Margree, Principal Lecturer in our School of Humanities and Social Science tells us about studying the humanities at Brighton and why the subject is so important at the moment in terms of global challenges such as climate change and racism.

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Careers

Prepare for your career  

In your career you need a combination of knowledge, skills, personal qualities and relevant experiences – and you’ll get all of this from your degree.

As a student on the Brighton Humanities programme you have the opportunity to develop wide-ranging subject knowledge and expertise in an area of your choice area through your final year dissertation.

You will be challenged and encouraged to become an effective oral and written communicator, confident in presenting work on your own and as a member of a group.

You will develop a range of transferable skills including the ability to

  • identify, synthesise, analyse and present information from a wide range of sources
  • critically examine arguments and develop original responses
  • listen, present and debate

Outside of the course you will have opportunities take part in subject-related conferences and events at the university, and to join the student-run Humanities Society which organises a busy annual calendar of expert speakers, debates and events.

Work-related experience

There are plenty of opportunities for activities outside of the curriculum. These include international conferences with world leading experts; publication in the student blog, and in student publications, and participation in Humanities Society events.

If you choose to take the placement module in year 2, you can gain valuable work experience in a professional setting. You’ll get to explore how issues covered in your course play out in practice and reflect critically upon how the concepts and theories you’ve studied inform, shape and are shaped by real-world organisations.

The placement is a great chance to make industry contacts and can enhance your employment prospects after graduating.

What can I do with a PPE degree?

Careers our students go on to include:

  • national and international politics
  • law
  • academia and teaching
  • media and journalism
  • global business management
  • development
  • charities
  • non-governmental organisations and the environment
  • the European Union and the United Nations. 

Further study 

This degree also opens up a range of postgraduate study options. At Brighton, for example, you could progress on to:

  • Globalisation: Politics, Conflict and Human Rights MA
  • War: History and Politics MA
  • Journalism MA

You could also choose to complete your PhD at Brighton alongside our researchers.

Supporting your employability 

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

  • Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
  • Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
  • Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
  • Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
  • Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
  • Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

Find out more...

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Employment demand for humanities graduates

The British Academy has compiled a report (May 2020) quantifying the demand for arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) skills in the workplace. It helps to answer the legitimate question of what the economic return is on undertaking a degree, both in time and money. 

According to the report:

  • As arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates progress through the first ten years of their career they are able make strong progress up the career ladder into roles attracting higher salaries
  • Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are employed in some of the fastest growing sectors including financial services, education, social work, the media and creative industries
  • Of the ten fastest growing sectors, eight employ more graduates from AHSS than other disciplines

This makes AHSS graduates at the heart of some of the most exciting, productive, largest and fastest-growing sectors of the UK economy.

Future skills demand

According to the report:

  • With the challenges the world is facing – climate change, global pandemics, the growth of populism – the UK needs the insights of the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) as much as those from science, technology and engineering (STEM)
  • Evidence within the report shows that Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are central to these challenges and changes – they will be vital in giving us the tools to examine and explain human behaviour, understand how society functions, learn from the past and apply those lessons to the present, and analyse the drivers and implications of a changing world and how different countries, places and cultures interact.

Entry criteria

Entry requirements

A-levels and BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level BBB–BCC (120–104 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DMM–MMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range.

International Baccalaureate
26 points, with three subjects at Higher level.

Access to HE Diploma
Pass with 60 credits overall. Humanities, history or politics courses preferred. At least 45 credits at level 3.

Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton, and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3. 

English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
Country name
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma (Myanmar)
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malawi
Malta
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian National Authority
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syria
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

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Visas and immigration advice

Applying for a student visa

Check out our step-by-step guidance.

Flexible admissions

When you apply to Brighton we want to hear about who you are. Grades are never the whole picture; we're interested in things like creativity, resourcefulness, persistence and the capacity to think big and find new ways of doing things. And we recognise that not everyone has the same background. That's why we treat everyone who applies as an individual. We recognise many qualifications and we care about all of your achievements and the experiences you've had that set you apart.

Find out more

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Fees

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,250 GBP

International (full-time) 14,300 GBP

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Humanities and Social Science in the 2022–23 academic year are listed here.

  • For some assessments you may be required to print large format posters for presentations at a cost of £5–£10 per poster.
  • Most coursework submissions are electronic but you may wish to print notes and should budget up to £100 for printing.
  • Course books are available from the university but you may wish to budget up to £200 to buy your own copies.
  • Some courses include an optional placement module for which students will need to cover the costs of travel to and from the placement and DBS checks as required.
  • For the Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling PGDip and Psychotherapeutic Psychodynamic Counselling PGDip, the following course-related costs are not included in the tuition fee:
    • Supervision fees: £1,170 for each full year. Estimated based on £45 per hour with fortnightly meetings. In some agencies, supervision will be provided at no cost. Where students have to pay, the cost will only begin when supervision begins.
    • Personal counselling/therapy: £2,000–£2,800 over the course. Estimated based on £40 per hour.
  • For a number of courses you will have the opportunity to attend field trips and off-site visits. These are optional and are not required to pass your course but under normal circumstances we would expect a budget of approximately £150 per year will cover the costs of particular trips. The amount spent would be based on location and number of trips taken.
  • You will have access to computers and necessary software, however many students choose to buy their own hardware, software and accessories. The amount spent will depend on your individual choices but this expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses.

You can chat with our enquiries team if you have a question or need more information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

Info

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2023–24.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

Location and student life

Campus where this course is taught

Moulsecoomb campus

Two miles north of Brighton seafront, Moulsecoomb is our largest campus and student village. Moulsecoomb has been transformed by a recent development of our estate. On campus you'll find new Students' Union, events venue, and sports and fitness facilities, alongside the library and student centre.

Over 900 students live here in our halls, Moulsecoomb Place and the new Mithras halls – Brunswick, Goldstone, Hanover, Preston and Regency.

Moulsecoomb has easy access to buses and trains and to all the exciting things happening in our home city.

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Accommodation

Brighton: Moulsecoomb

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students.

Halls of residence
We have self-catered halls on all our campuses, within minutes of your classes, and other options that are very nearby.

You can apply for any of our halls, but the options closest to your study location are:

  • Mithras Halls are stylish new high-rises in the heart of the student village at our revitalised Moulsecoomb campus with ensuite rooms for more than 800 students.
  • Varley Park is a popular dedicated halls site, offering a mix of rooms and bathroom options at different prices.

Want to live independently? We can help – find out more about private renting.

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Modern accommodation at Moulsecoomb

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Relaxing in halls near the campus

Student Union social space

Student Union social space at Moulsecoomb

Local area

About Brighton

The city of Brighton & Hove is a forward-thinking place which leads the way in the arts, technology, sustainability and creativity. You'll find living here plays a key role in your learning experience.

Brighton is a leading centre for creative media technology, recently named the startup capital of the UK.

The city is home to a national 5G testbed and over 1,000 tech businesses. The digital sector is worth over £1bn a year to the local economy - as much as tourism.

All of our full-time undergraduate courses involve work-based learning - this could be through placements, live briefs and guest lectures. Many of these opportunities are provided by local businesses and organisations.

It's only 50 minutes by train from Brighton to central London and less than 40 minutes to Eastbourne. There are also daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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Maps

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Support and wellbeing

Your course team

Your personal academic tutor, course leader and other tutors are all there to help you with your personal and academic progress. You'll also have a student support and guidance tutor (SSGT) who can help with everything from homesickness, managing stress or accommodation issues.

Your academic skills

Our Brighton Student Skills Hub gives you extra support and resources to develop the skills you'll need for university study, whatever your level of experience so far.

Your mental health and wellbeing

As well as being supported to succeed, we want you to feel good too. You'll be part of a community that builds you up, with lots of ways to connect with one another, as well having access to dedicated experts if you need them. Find out more.

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Sport at Brighton

Sport Brighton

Sport Brighton brings together our sport and recreation services. As a Brighton student you'll have use of sport and fitness facilities across all our campuses and there are opportunities to play for fun, fitness or take part in serious competition. 

Find out more about Sport Brighton.

Sports scholarships

Our sports scholarship scheme is designed to help students develop their full sporting potential to train and compete at the highest level. We offer scholarships for elite athletes, elite disabled athletes and talented sports performers.

Find out more about sport scholarships.

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Programme specification

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Programme specification

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