BA Journalism and English
Entry requirements
A level: BBB at A-level including English (Language, Literature or combined)
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and Journalism, covering both subjects equally over 3–4 years. The first year introduces core journalism skills across various platforms, while the second year develops these on digital and broadcasting platforms alongside optional English modules. In the third year, students complete either a Journalism or English dissertation and a group project to develop a website.
Modules
- Multi-Media Journalism Project 1
- Multi-Media Journalism Project 2
- Journalism Placement
- Investigative Journalism
- Freelance and Entrepreneurial Journalism
- Crime Journalism
- Space Journalism
- Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Reporting Panics
- Political Journalism
- TV News Production
- Environmental Journalism
- Advanced Sports Journalism
- Content and Podcast Creation
- Writing for PR
- Queering the Renaissance
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Weird Fiction/Weird Film
- Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
- The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
- Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
- Modern European Fiction
- Tragedy
- Bodies and Minds from the Victorians to the Present Day
- Writing for Laughs
- Medieval Worlds
- Multi-Media Journalism Project 1
- Multi-Media Journalism Project 2
- Journalism Placement
- Investigative Journalism
- Freelance and Entrepreneurial Journalism
- Crime Journalism
- Space Journalism
- Adolescence in American Fiction and Film
- Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time
- Writing Voices
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- Writing Prose Fiction
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Reporting Panics
- Political Journalism
- TV News Production
- Environmental Journalism
- Advanced Sports Journalism
- Content and Podcast Creation
- Writing for PR
- News Basics
- Journalism Ethics and Regulation
- The Novel Around the World
- Features Journalism
- Podcasting and Radio Journalism
- Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- Digital and Social Media Journalism: Context and Practice
- Critical Perspectives 1
- Critical Perspectives 2
- Researching Journalism
- Introduction to TV and Video Journalism
- Post-Truth Journalism
- Freelance Journalism
- Political Communication
- Chaucer’s Worlds
- Diversity in Contemporary American Literature
- Using Stories
- Gothic
- Magazine Journalism
- Journalism Perspectives
- Data Journalism
- Sports Journalism 1
- Journalism Studies
- Advanced Creative Writing Skills
- Global Voices and the Publishing Industry
- English and Education
- Arts Journalism
- Your Career and Other Stories