Launch
During Launch week you’ll undertake activities that bring together students from across the course – these can include ice breaking events, talks, trips, “find a story” exercises and also helping new students integrate via a buddy scheme.
Reporting Your World
Your passion within journalism – whether it’s sport, music, politics, fashion or something else – can be unleashed in this unit, where you’ll be able to build on your enthusiasm and turn it into something where you have real expertise, contacts and authority.
Working in the Creative Industries
For graduates to be successful in the workplace you need to possess suitable knowledge and skills, resilience and a positive attitude towards the world of work. This unit focuses on developing your employability and enterprise skills and equips you with competencies needed for your future career.
Reporting Power
How does power work on a local, national or international level? In this unit you’ll discover how it constrains and liberates and how it affects every aspect of how we live our lives. Reporters can support people by helping to crack and demystify councils, rules and processes - it’s a reporter’s major strength. As a journalist it’s vital you’re familiar with the parameters of power, and how to build that knowledge into the work you produce.
This unit also prepares you for the National Council for the Training of Journalists’ (NCTJ) Public Administration exam and the Broadcast Journalism Training Council’s requirements in this area.
Reporting Legally
From copyright, data protection, sources, contempt of court and defamation, there are a range of legal constraints on journalists. You’ll learn about these constraints via high profile court cases that have shaped the way stories are reported, and you’ll learn about how the law has evolved to cover changes in technology, such as the growth of social media.
This unit is based on the legal system of England and Wales and looks at how IPSO and Ofcom add an extra layer of regulation.
The News Reporter’s Toolkit
You’ll learn about how newsroom operates and get to know the different roles in contemporary newsrooms, including camera crews and photographers and have a chance to perform several of them in broadcast news production days.In the process, you will witness the importance of clear, distinct visual imagery, both photography and graphics and use your skills to capture still frame images you can build into engaging and original story montages.
You’ll continue to produce compelling photo-journalism but, this time, you’ll recreate it for a variety of platforms including social media and newsletters. You’ll also learn about the life of a freelance photographer and how to work for different audiences.
Documentary
You’ll work in groups in production roles to make a documentary or short film, using your skills to investigate your chosen subject and then film on location or deploy other techniques to tell your story. In your team, you’ll develop factual work through development and realisation of a treatment or concept and shape your film for a specific audience.
ATOM activities
You’ll choose a series of small activities to complete that boost your learning. These can be from any subject area, broadening your horizons and encouraging inter-disciplinary learning and development.
PLE Digital Outcome
Your Personalised Learning Experience (PLE) Digital Outcome is a purposefully edited, self-directed record of your constructive, engagement with and presence on, digital media platforms across the year.