Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Academic Skills and Career Planning - 20 credits
- Journalism in Context - 20 credits
- Media Law and Regulation (Level 4) - 20 credits
- Reporting - 20 credits
- Telling Tales - 20 credits
- True Stories - 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Feature Writing and Media Research - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Creative Writing and Critical Thinking
- Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange
- Smartphone Journalism
- Investigative Journalism
- Social Journalism Theory
- Specialist Journalism
- Press and Public Relations
- Finding Form – Fiction
- Finding Form - Non-Fiction
- Factual Media Production
- Professional Experience
- Engaged Citizenship through Interdisciplinary Practice
- Student Enterprise
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules
- Finding Form - Fact and Fiction - 20 credits
- Writing Project (With Publishing) - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Journalism Special Investigation
- Journalism Dissertation
- Global Journalism and Human Rights
- Digital Media and Democracy
- Placement
- Money, Government and Power
- Writing and Producing Magazines
- Fan Fiction
- Travel Writing
- Fact and Fiction
- Writing Project (with Publishing)
