Bachelor of Art Multimedia Journalism

In Year 1, you'll learn how to find and write original news stories and make TV and radio reports. You'll also learn the crucial role journalism plays in society as well as the fundamentals of media law and ethics.

During Year 2, you'll enhance the skills you've developed in Year 1 and learn how to tackle the day’s news agenda as a team.

You'll undertake a professional work placement between Years 2 and 3, allowing you to build professional contacts and experience. You'll choose who to pitch yourself to according to your own interests. Previous students have been placed with national and local organisations such as ITV, BBC, London Fashion Week, New Musical Express, Daily Express, Fabulous magazine, local newspapers, press offices at organisations such as Gillingham Football Club, and specialist magazines such as Surf Girl or Good Food magazine. Some students go back to work for their placement provider after they’ve graduated. For example, one student was actually offered a job during her placement with ITV; she finished her degree and went straight back to them.

Year 3 is devoted to building an impressive portfolio to showcase your skills to future employers.

Building contacts and strategies for entering the professional field of your choice is all-important, so we have a wide range of visiting professionals, including some of our former students who are now in senior positions in journalism.

Alongside the key practical skills, we'll also teach you to think and evaluate the contemporary media scene and the role of journalism in society. You'll be forming your own views on a number of controversial and exciting issues in journalism: what are the limits to press freedom? How should the industry be regulated, if at all? Can newspapers survive the digital revolution?

The University has general minimum entry requirements which all students must meet before they register with us.

At the point of registration onto the first year of a degree, we require you to have achieved:

• a minimum of two A Levels or
• a BTEC National Diploma or
• a combination of BTEC and A Level qualifications equivalent to two A Levels, such as a BTEC subsidiary certificate and one A Level or
• an Access to Higher Education Diploma or
• an International or Welsh Baccalaureate or
• a Higher National Diploma/Higher National Certificate or
• a minimum of two Advanced Highers from Scotland or
• the Irish Leaving Certificate or
• the European Baccalaureate Diploma or
• an equivalent overseas qualification.