Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Academic and Professional Skills
- Journalism in Context
- Law for Journalists
- Reporting
- True Stories
- Telling Tales
Year 2
Core modules
- Feature Writing and News Analysis
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
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)