Entry requirements: Normally a first or second-class Honours degree in a related subject or professional experience in the area of study
Full-time: 1 year
Programme Leader: Chris Horrie
Email Chris.Horrie@winchester.ac.uk
If English is not your first language: IELTS 7.5 (including 7.5 in writing) or equivalent
Start dates: September
Application process: UKPASS (full-time applicants only) or Direct Entry Application Form (part-time applicants only)
The programme has been developed with the assistance of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) and an industry advisory panel composed of regional and national figures with expertise in television, radio, newspapers, magazines and online and journalism training. Study and training proceeds rapidly from the classroom to the studio and newsroom where, together with extended periods of work attachment, students experience the reality of working journalism.
• The Business of Journalism: Markets, Audiences, Advertising, Funding
• Teeline Shorthand
• Web Audio and Video Production Skills/Interactive Online Digital Magazine Production
• Radio and Television News Production and Presentation
• UK/EU Public Affairs/News Sources
• Media Law and Regulation
• Video Documentary Production
• Live Production Project – Winchester News Online
A wide variety of teaching methods is used including tutorials, seminars, lectures, workshops and demonstrations. Practical work takes place in a purpose-built multimedia newsroom and studio designed and constructed to industry standards.
There is an emphasis on continuous assessment of practical skills. The media law and public affairs modules are assessed by examination. Practical work is assessed in the studio in individual group and feedback sessions. All students create a course blog, which acts as a portfolio of work completed, a means of exchanging ideas with tutors and other students and a way of receiving feedback and advice on their work.
Dissertation
An Academic Dissertation/Major Individual Journalism Project enables students to study one aspect of the profession of journalism, or an aspect of its likely future development.
There is an option to do this by means of a traditional supervised academic dissertation, or as a series of linked in-depth pieces of journalism.
Graduates are equipped to begin professional careers as staff or freelance journalists in the newspaper, magazine, radio, television and online industries.