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War and Conflict BA(Hons)

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Why do human beings engage in conflicts? Is it possible to end the cycle of violence? On this course you will critically investigate violent conflict including war, genocide, state violence, terrorism, as well as conflict resolution.

Drawing on philosophy, history and cultural politics, you will focus in particular on the war on terror, the Cold War, the two world wars, colonial warfare as well as genocide, torture and humanitarian intervention.

You will become an expert on the violent conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first century, with the knowledge to contribute towards resolution of global conflicts.

Interdisciplinary study is key to this course and you will develop analytical skills from several academic disciplines including philosophy, politics and history – and the capacity to apply these to real-world problems.

Teaching on the course involves lectures, small seminar group teaching and individual tutorials tailored to your learning needs.

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Key facts

Location Brighton: Moulsecoomb

UCAS code L252

Full-time 3 years

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Being taught in a small group, you learn and grow with your fellow pupils and become extremely close. Also, it was the most comforting thing to know that your tutors were always there for you. My favourite tutor constantly reminded us that you should never struggle in silence. I highly advise anyone to take a humanities course at Brighton if they have the drive to learn and think critically whilst being in the best of hands!

Alex Photiou, graduate

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 enable 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 you take six modules that help develop the skills central to your course.

Modules

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

War propaganda

Soviet propaganda from the Cold War

Year 2

In year 2 you will choose two option pathways to follow for the rest of your degree – one of the specialist pathways 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:

  • War, Violence and Mass Killing
    You are introduced to key historical, philosophical and political approaches to the study of war and conflict, examine the experience of warfare in the twentieth century and consider the place of violence in human society and politics. In the second semester, you draw upon these approaches to critically analyse both the origins and the conduct of contemporary wars in the Middle East.
  • Terror and Terrorism
    You will trace the history of terrorism and the use of political violence by both states and non-state groups to critically engage with contemporary discourses of the War On Terror. Case studies include the Israel-Palestine conflict, Algeria and decolonisation, and the New Left and revolutionary violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Culture and Conflict
    This option pathway explores the cultural politics of representation associated with violent conflict. You will study a variety of cultural forms including fictional and documentary film, literary fictions, and photography. You will develop key analytical and critical skills by focusing on representations of the Vietnam War, 9/11, and the Iraq wars. You will also debate the ethics, aesthetics and politics of representation in context of racialised violence, colonialism and state repression.

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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:

  • Literature, History and Social Change
  • Philosophy and Literature 
  • Politics, History and Ideology
  • Race and Resistance
  • Self and Society
  • Globalisation, History and Identity
  • Global Politics
  • Critical Theory and Radical Politics
  • Morality, Politics and the Good Life
  • 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.

You will also complete and submit a dissertation, drawing on your subject knowledge and research method skills, as you develop your own extended critical response to your chosen topic. 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 doing so you demonstrate your presentation, communication, discussion and debate skills.

Specialist option pathways

Culture and Conflict: Contested Pasts: Partition, War and Cultures of Resistance
You will consider the representation and remembrance of conflict in Northern Ireland, Lebanon and South Africa. Looking at literature, posters, film, memorials and personal testimony, you will explore the ways in which histories of conflict are rewritten and reinterpreted in the light of changing cultural and political concerns.

Terror and Terrorism: The War on Terror
You will study the war on terror from a global perspective, interrogating the different manifestations of counter-terrorism we see in the world today. You will assess whether these strategies are able to prevent terrorism and consider the forms of resistance deployed by those caught up in contemporary conflicts. 

War, Violence and Mass Killing: The Holocaust and Genocide
You'll explore the modern history of mass killing. Through a series of comparative case studies, including the Holocaust, Armenia, Yugoslavia and Rwanda, you will seek to understand the causes and consequences of genocide, the ideologies which produce it and consider what can be done to prevent future atrocities. 

War in Bosnia

War damaged buildings after the conflict in the former Yugoslavia

Meet the team 

Our staff are 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.

Rebecca Searle

This degree is led by Rebecca Searle, a historian who specialises in the experience and representation of war and conflict in the twentieth century. She has a wide range of teaching expertise including the history of state and non-state terrorism and Britain’s role in international conflict.

She is the author of Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War. Rebecca is also interested in political and economic conflict and her new research project focuses on the history of the housing crisis.

Find out more about Rebecca Searle

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Dr Michael Neu

Dr Michael Neu researches and teaches in political and moral philosophy, with special interests in the politics and ethics of violence. He publishes on contemporary just war theory, the Responsibility to Protect, sweatshops, torture and the notion of complicity. Michael completed his PhD on The Dilemma of Justified War at Sheffield University (2010) and was subsequently awarded the Political Studies Association (PSA) Sir Ernest Barker Prize for the best dissertation in Political Theory.

He has been teaching at Brighton since 2012 and is co-organiser, with the humanities undergraduate students, of the Humanities Society seminar series. His monograph Just Liberal Violence: Sweatshops, Torture, War (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018) was published in 2018, and he has a second book forthcoming (with Robin Dunford): Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique (London Zed Books, 2019).

Michael has also has co-edited and co-authored a volume on Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique (with Robin Dunford and Afxentis Afxentiou, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016).

Find out more about Dr Michael Neu 

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Eugene Michail

Eugene works on contemporary European history. He has researched on a range of war-related topics, such as: the collective memory of the Balkan Wars of 1912–13; the political aims of people's resistance movements during the Second World War; and the international reactions to the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.

He has a long experience teaching courses on the Holocaust, on Genocide, on Fascism and on Nationalism. Beyond his BA teaching, he is also degree leader for the MA in War: History and Politics.

Find out more about Eugene Michail

Andy Knott

Andy Knott is a political theorist with an interest in the role that war, conflict and violence has played in political thought, how and why these have been theorised and related to politics. His research expertise is in the field of political subjects, with a current interest in populism, on which he is currently co-editing a volume.

Find out more about Andy Knott

Tom Bunyard

Tom Bunyard teaches philosophy, critical theory and cultural theory across the Humanities Programme. His primary areas of research are the work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Hegelian philosophy and new readings of Marx.

Tom has a particular interest in conceptions and criticisms of modernity and Enlightenment, chiefly as regards their relation to the conflicts and totalitarianisms of the previous century, and to the politics of our own purportedly 'post-truth' circumstances.

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Dr Cathy Bergin

Drawing on a background in literary history and cultural discourse, Dr Cathy Bergin's primary research interests are in the politics of 'race' and colonialism in African-American and Caribbean writing, focusing on cultural formations and Communist politics in the twentieth century. She is particularly interested in the concept of 'rage' as the expression of black historical consciousness and agency.

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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 through your final year dissertation.

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

You will also 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 effectively.

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.

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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.

Graduate destinations  

Careers our students go on to include national and international politics, law, academia and teaching, media and journalism, and global business management. Students may also seek work in development, charities, non-governmental organisations and the environment, as well as 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

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.

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Entry requirements

A-levels or 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

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Applying for a student visa

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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.

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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. Over the last four years Moulsecoomb has undergone a major transformation, planned with accessibility, inclusivity and sustainability in mind.

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

On campus you’ll find professional-standard facilities and learning resources for all of our subjects and a brand new academic building Elm House, alongside the library, student centre, fitness facilities and the Students’ Union.

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 halls of residence across Brighton in the city centre, Moulsecoomb, Varley Park and Falmer.

  • Moulsecoomb campus is linked to Mithras halls and Varley Park. All halls are self-catered.
  • Varley Park offers a mix of rooms. It is around two miles from Moulsecoomb campus and four miles from the city centre. Public transport in the city is excellent, and there’s a shuttle bus between our Brighton campuses during term time.

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

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Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Park

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Relaxing in halls near the campus

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Students eating at the Hub

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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Course and module descriptions on this page were accurate when first published and are the basis of the course. Detailed information on any changes we make to modules and learning and assessment activities will be sent to all students by email before enrolment, so that you have all the information before you come to Brighton.

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Programme specification

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Programme specification

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