BA English Literature and Journalism
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: M
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and Journalism, Media and Culture. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Ethics & Professional Practice. The course provides studio-based training in radio, podcast, and television from the first year. Placement opportunities are available through the BBC Media Diversity Partnership, and students can enter for awards like the Natasha's Voice Prize for Original Broadcast Journalism.
Modules
- Introduction to Journalism
- Journalism Law and Ethics
- Introduction to Digital Techniques
- Literary Forms and Genres
- Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing
- Writing Worcester Past and Present
- Journalism Law, Ethics and Society
- Exploding the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice
- Broadcast Journalism
- Developing your Media Career
- Entertainment Journalism
- Magazine Journalism and Feature Writing
- Reporting Politics
- Broadcast and Social Media
- Social Media for Journalists
- Sports Journalism
- Movement and Migration
- Politics, Sex and Identity in the Early Modern World
- Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
- Gothic and Romantic Literature
- Spaces of Modernity
- Children’s Literature
- Work Project
- Advanced Digital Production
- Advanced PR & Comms
- Campaigning & Environmental Journalism
- Final Project
- Investigative Journalism and Research Skills
- Podcasting and Live News Production
- Work Placement
- Independent Research Project (Dissertation equivalent module)
- Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western
- Postcolonial Encounters
- Writing and the Environment
- War and Conflict
- Gendering Voices
- Literatures and Cultures: International Explorations
- Queer Bodies, Queer Texts
- Metamorphoses: Literature and Adaptation