The programme is divided into a series of modules that cover the key practical skills and theoretical background. There are no optional modules or alternate pathways.
The four practical modules focus on the basic journalistic skills common to different media: news and feature research and writing, interviewing, image, video and data skills print and online production techniques. You will learn how to apply these skills across all platforms.
In the summer term, you work in groups to produce magazines. In the past, these have won the annual Periodical Publishers Association competition for student magazines.
There are four lecture-based theoretical modules in which we give you the background theoretical knowledge to become expert practitioners. These are:
- Journalism in Context, which places journalism in the wider political and social context
- Media Law and Ethics, which delivers a grounding in legal issues
- Politics and Power, a module that delivers a basic grounding in how government and public sector operate
- Asking the Right Questions, which teaches advanced research skills for journalists, and is delivered by expert guest speakers
- Practice modules are largely assessed by portfolios of your work, while theory modules are all assessed by essays or written research work.
