Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Academic Skills and Career Planning – 20 credits
- Digital Skills for Journalists – 20 credits
- Ethical Perspectives on Current Affairs – 20 credits
- Journalism in Context – 20 credits
- Media Law and Regulation – 20 credits
- Reporting – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Feature Writing and Media Research - 20 credits
- Government in Britain - 20 credits
- Mobile Journalism - 20 credits
- Advanced News and Investigative Reporting - 20 credits
- Social Media and Journalism - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange - 60 credits
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice - 20 credits
- Press and Public Relations - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Specialist Journalism - 20 credits
- Student Enterprise - 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Newsroom Production – 20 credits
- Placement – 20 credits
Optional modules
- Dissertation - 40 credits
- Journalism Special Investigation - 40 credits
- Digital Media and Democracy - 20 credits
- Global Journalism and Human Rights - 20 credits
- Magazines: Print Media in A Digital World - 20 credits
- Money, Government and Power - 20 credits
