Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Academic and Professional Skills – 20 credits
- Introduction to Media Studies – 20 credits
- Journalism in Context – 20 credits
- Law for Journalists – 20 credits
- Media and the Image – 20 credits
- Reporting – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Court Reporting – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Essential Law – 0 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Feature Writing and News Analysis – 20 credits
- Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice – 20 credits
- Factual Media Production – 20 credits
- Investigative Journalism – 20 credits
- Media, Culture and National Identity – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Court Reporting – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Essential Law – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Essential PA – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Press and Public Relations – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Shorthand – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Sports Journalism – 0 credits
- National Council for the Training of Journalists: Video Journalism – 0 credits
- Press and Public Relations – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Propaganda – 20 credits
- Screen Media – 20 credits
- Smartphone Journalism – 20 credits
- Social Journalism Theory – 20 credits
- Specialist Journalism – 20 credits
- Student Enterprise – 20 credits
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules in this year include.
- Dissertation / Major Project – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Celebrity and Society – 20 credits
- Cultures of Consumption – 20 credits
- Digital Media and Democracy – 20 credits
- Global Journalism and Human Rights – 20 credits
- Journalism Special Investigation – 40 credits
- Media Fan Cultures – 20 credits
- Money, Government and Power – 20 credits
- News, War and Peace – 20 credits
- Placement – 20 credits
- Representing Science in the Media – 20 credits
- TV Talk Shows – 20 credits
- Writing and Producing Magazines – 20 credits
