Journalism BA (Hons)
Education with the personal touch
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Journalism BA (Hons)
Duration: 3 years full time Course fees: £10,510* per year *These fees apply if you are starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fees as they can change. Costs can increase each year.
Start date: September UCAS Code: P500
The Journalism programme is convergent so practice modules will give you access to the student journalism website, Derby Sphere which serves as a publishing site as well as a learning tool. You'll have opportunities to work on real projects and will do location stories as a matter of course. We have great contacts with local radio, newspapers and TV. You may also choose to develop your skills by working for our student radio station, Dusted magazine, or the Sports website run by the Student Union.
Your career Why choose this course? You'll develop the knowledge and skills you'll need to become a multi-skilled multimedia professional, ready for a career in journalism, online or broadcast media production, PR, advertising, corporate communications, law and public administration or politics.
The Journalism programme is linked with current industry practice. We run Employability Days every year where industry editors across all platforms come to talk to students about work placements, and what they need from young journalists.
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Photojournalism and Reportage
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STAGE ONE
Reporting Reality
Professional Development in Journalism
Introduction to Public Affairs
Introduction to Broadcast News
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How you’ll learn
STAGE TWO
You will study research techniques, law and journalism theory. You’ll also do work placements throughout the course.
Introduction to Journalism
Reporting Practices
Media Law
Broadcast Journalism – Radio
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You'll also get a chance to concentrate on a particular journalistic genre, for example sports reporting, fashion or music journalism.
What you’ll cover
Journalism – Video
Shorthand
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Language – A qualification such as IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all areas) or TOEFL – 550 (paper based), 213 (computer based), 80 (internet based). See our website for other accepted qualifications or phone us: +44 (0)1332 591698.
On this course there's an emphasis on developing creative, versatile journalists with expertise in a variety of production techniques.
STAGE THREE
Entry requirements: Academic – 260 UCAS tariff points, of which at least 220 must be from your International Baccalaureate or equivalent qualification.
About the course
Print Production Project
Online Production Project
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SPRING
Where you will study: Derby Campus – Kedleston Road and Markeaton Street sites.
Convergence Portfolio
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Additional information
Options
All Journalism staff are industry professionals as well as lecturers. They all have many years experience as staff in media organisations and as freelance journalists, in print, stills, documentary, radio, TV and online media. Most of them also have national and international awards.
Stage two You’ll choose from: ▪ Work-Based Learning in Journalism ▪ Print Production ▪ Media Ethics ▪ Media, Culture and Power – European Cultural Studies ▪ Media Research Project ▪ Conflicting Images: News and the Media.
You'll be based at Markeaton Street, where you'll study in our excellent facilities which include two radio studios and a fully equipped television studio, video editing suites, Mac suites and an integrated newsroom equipped with the latest industry standard software.
Stage three You’ll choose from: ▪ Sports Journalism ▪ Management Experience in the Creative and Cultural Industries ▪ Independent Study in Journalism ▪ Case Studies in Law, Ethics and Diversity ▪ Cultures on the War on Terror ▪ Documentary and Factual: Poetics or Praxis ▪ Keeping the Peace: Conflict, Power and Diplomacy since 1945.
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The information in this leaflet was correct when we produced it, but please check our website for the most up to date information.
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