**The world of news and journalism is changing at an unprecedented rate. This programme offers an individual and innovative blend of contemporary, multi-media journalism that ensures you will be prepared for the future of a rapidly developing news industry.**
You’ll learn a range of cutting-edge digital skills to help you investigate news stories. You’ll also learn how and why good journalism matters by putting it in its wider cultural context.
**Why study BA Journalism at Goldsmiths?**
- Learn from media professionals with extensive industry experience and leading academics involved in ground-breaking research.
- Work on a real-world news website (EastLondonLines), covering breaking news stories that really matter to the local community.
- Develop an arsenal of digital skills, and learn to integrate them with a core of essential reporting and news-writing skills. Digital skills taught on this programme include: Video Journalism, Data Journalism, Mobile Journalism and Web programming
- Get training with a range of digital video equipment to support your practice, including DSLRs, and ENG (electronic news gathering) cameras.
- Produce a long-form news feature on a subject of your choice, which will allow you to bring together all the digital and news-writing skills learned over the course of this degree.
- Build up a portfolio of work, get advice on careers and work experience, and benefit from our close links with London’s thriving world-class media industry.
- The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies is ranked 7th in the world for Communication and Media Studies (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).
Course Details - Modules
Whatever kind of journalist you are seeking to become, we will give you the right combination of practical skills and the wider understanding to launch a successful career in this new, digital, multi platform world. The programme draws on the award-winning expertise of our MA Journalism and MA/MSc Digital Journalism programmes, many of whose graduates are in key positions in the news media.
The programme delivers a range of journalistic and technical skills – including news writing, web programming, data visualisation and video reporting – as well as more theoretical underpinning, giving students essential background in media law, public affairs and the wider context of journalism and the media. We aim to provide an inspirational learning experience in which theory and practice influence and enrich each other in the production of original, creative and intellectual work.
Year 1
All modules in your first year are compulsory:
Introduction to Power, Politics and Public Affairs
Introduction to Digital Methods in Journalism
Introduction to Multimedia Journalism
News and Culture
Key Debates in Media Studies
Introduction to Video Reporting
Digital Methods in Journalism
Year 2
You will take the following compulsory modules:
Data Journalism and Visualisation
Journalism and Society
Media Law and Ethics
News and Power in a Globalised Context
Feature Writing
Video Reporting
Multimedia Journalism
Year 3
You take compulsory modules:
Final Multimedia Project and Portfolio
You also choose a combination of option modules Or a dissertation and one option module.
Arts and Fashion Journalism
Radio Journalism in a Multimedia Context
Asking the Right Questions: Research and Practice
Photojournalism
Structure of Contemporary Political Communication
Work Placement (Media)
The City and Consumer Culture
Embodiment and Experience
Media Geographies
Media, Ethnicity and Nation
Media, Ritual and Contemporary Public Cultures
Social Media in Everyday Life
Digital Venture Creation
Data Mining
Archaeology of the Moving Image
Journalism in Context
Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Course Details – Assessment Method
You’ll be assessed by a variety of methods, depending on your module choices. These include coursework assignments such as extended essays, reports, presentations, practice-based projects or essays/logs, group projects and reflective essays, as well as seen and unseen written examinations.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
P500
Institution code:
G56
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject specific modules.
With three Higher Level subjects at 655
You should have Grade C/Grade 4 (or equivalent) or above in GCSE Mathematics.
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
7.0
with a 7.0 in writing.
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
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Fees and funding
Additional Fee Information
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Provider information
New Cross
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Lewisham
SE14 6NW
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