**Overview** If prose is your passion, this Journalism with Creative Writing degree lets you keep your options open while you transform your talent with the written word into a successful career. You'll learn about and experience factual reporting and fictional writing, combining the complementary disciplines of journalism and creative writing. You might compile a news report about a local charity or review a concert on one day, then the next day work on a short story, poem or play script. You'll also hone your research skills and learn about the structure and mechanisms of the industries you could find yourself working in – from the process of getting a script approved to legal issues surrounding publishing news stories. You'll graduate ready to get stuck into writing professionally, equipped with the knowledge and experience you need to get started in whichever field of writing you choose. **What you'll experience** On this Journalism with Creative Writing degree course you'll: - Combine the factual world of journalism with the fictional world of creative writing - Learn how to research and write news stories and articles, and layout magazine pages - Study modules from our BA (Hons) Journalism course, which was awarded the Best Performing Undergraduate Course for 2017–18 and 2018–19 by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) - Get to grips with video as a journalistic and creative medium - Have the opportunity to take NCTJ exams, giving you further professional qualifications - Be taught by published authors of novels, poetry and screenplays, and journalists with written and broadcast experience in local, regional, national and international journalism - Learn about media law and industry code, and get a deeper understanding of the role of journalists in a democratic society - Develop the techniques you need to write effectively across many mediums, including magazines, TV screenplays, theatre scripts, and poetry - Have access to our industry-standard journalism newsroom, exclusively open to journalism students, which contains 25 Macs loaded with the Adobe Creative Cloud 2019 suite - Have the opportunity to work alongside students from related courses in TV and broadcasting, photography, and fashion, benefiting from their expertise and perspectives Transferable skills you'll learn, which you can use in all areas of your life, include: - Writing skills - Professional interview techniques - Communication skills - The ability to research and synthesise arguments and information - Presentation skills - Self-confidence **Careers and opportunities** When you finish this Journalism with Creative Writing degree course, our careers and employability service can help you find a job that puts your skills to work in the industry. In the last DHLE (Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education) survey published in 2017, 100% of our creative writing graduates and 95% of journalism graduates were in work or further study 6 months after graduation. **What jobs can you do with a Journalism with Creative Writing degree?** Previous graduates from our journalism and creative writing courses have gone on to work in roles including: - trainee reporter - social media editor - digital marketing executive - copywriter - theatre manager - editorial assistant

Core modules in year 1 include: Academic and Professional Skills, Journalism in Context, Law for Journalists, Reporting, True Stories, Telling Tales. Core modules in year 2 include: Feature Writing and News Analysis and Creative Writing and Critical Thinking. Your optional modules in year 2 include: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking, Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange, Smartphone Journalism, Investigative Journalism, Social Journalism Theory, Specialist Journalism, Press and Public Relations, Finding Form – Fiction, Finding Form - Non-Fiction, Factual Media Production, Professional Experience, Engaged Citizenship through Interdisciplinary Practice, Student Enterprise. Optional modules in year 3 include: Journalism Special Investigation, Journalism Dissertation, Global Journalism and Human Rights, Digital Media and Democracy, Placement, Money, Government and Power, Writing and Producing Magazines, Fan Fiction, Travel Writing, Fact and Fiction, Writing Project (with Publishing). We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

You'll be assessed through: essays, presentations, in-class tests, media artefacts (e.g. producing a video or magazine), practical and written exams, short stories, screenplays, a collection of poems, a public relations campaign, final-year dissertation. You'll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark.

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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.

Course code: P5W8

Institution code: P80

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
Cambridge English Proficiency		Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
PTE Academic	54.0	An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)	79.0	79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Cambridge English Advanced		Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Trinity ISE		Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

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EU	9250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1
Republic of Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
International	16200.0	Year 1

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Placement Year and Year abroad: UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 | EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)| International (Non-EU) – £1,800. Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation. For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees

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