Year 1 (Credit Level 4)
PRACTICE
You learn about the basic structure and requirements of news organisations, and develop core journalistic skills such as research, reporting, and writing news and features, for print, broadcast and online media. You also learn online and multimedia news gathering and presentation skills.
ANALYSIS
There are two compulsory analysis modules in the first year, Media and Society, and Story, Sound, Image and Text, which introduce you to the frameworks in which the media operate and some of the major theoretical tools for analysing them. They consider the place of the media in society, politics, arts and culture.
Year 2 (Credit Level 5)
PRACTICE
In the second year you develop further skills in production, design and writing, creating features, news and multimedia content for newspapers, magazines and websites. You can choose from two sets of option modules, one focusing on specialist journalism in different subject areas, the other on broadcast journalism and online media.
ANALYSIS
In the first semester, you take two compulsory modules, Media Transformations, and Network Society and the Media. You then have a choice of analysis modules, taking at least three over the course of Year 2 and Year 3.
We currently offer:
Advertising and Promotional Culture
Audience Studies
Celebrity Culture and the Media
Contemporary Issues in Media Policy
Creativity
Cultural Industries and Media Markets
Law and the Media
Media Around the Globe
Multiculturalism and the Media
News and Public Opinion
Sex, Violence and Censorship
Year 3 (Credit Level 6)
PRACTICE
In the third year, you take a compulsory module, Final Journalism Project, in the media of your choice, and a specialist journalism module.
ANALYSIS
You normally choose one more analysis module to gain the required credits for your degree (see Year 2 for details of options). To complete your analytical work, you produce an academic dissertation on any subject concerned with media or journalism.