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Course Overview

What you'll study?

This course will equip you with the all-around skills and knowledge needed to build a career as a journalist in magazines, whilst providing you with a deep understanding of the wider publishing business. First and foremost you will learn how to write, whether it’s an in-depth interview, a sharp news story, a daily blog or a snappy photo caption.

You will learn how to report, research, interview, and edit news stories and features. Using Adobe InDesign, you will develop an understanding of how to plan a page with text, photographs, and graphics, sub-edit copy, and write a compelling headline.

You’ll get to grips with mobile journalism, using a phone or tablet to record video and audio, and learn how to edit your material into packages. On news days and Newsweek, you’ll produce websites and magazines, working with WordPress, the storytelling platform Shorthand.com, InDesign, and Photoshop, as well as creating content for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

You’ll also examine the business side of magazines and have the chance to pitch your own idea for a new title to a panel of industry professionals.

To underpin your journalism practice, you will gain a solid grounding in media law, public administration, and ethics and regulation. You'll also have the opportunity to develop shorthand skills to the NCTJ standard.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

  • A good UK honors degree (minimum 2.1) and enthusiasm for, or experience of journalism.
  • Applicants with a 2.2 and substantial experience will be considered.

English Language Requirements:

Grade equivalent to IELTS 6.0

Pearson Test of English (Academic):

  • 54 (with no less than 51 in any element)

C2 Proficiency (formerly known as Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE):

  • Scores of 180 and above

C1 Advanced (formerly known as Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE):

  • Scores of 169 and above

Oxford Test of English (OTE):

  • 120 overall with at least 111 in each component

TOEFL iBT (including ‘Special Home Edition'):

  • Overall score of 62 with at least 10 Reading, 9 Listening, 17 Speaking, 19 Writing

LanguageCert* SELT B2 or LanguageCert International ESOL B2 Communicator:

  • 156 overall (scores for all 4 components added together) with at least 33 in each component

IGCSE and GCSE

The grades given for GCSE and IGCSE are considered equivalent to IELTS 6.5.

GCSE English

  • Grade C

We do not accept English Literature.

IGCSE English as a first or second language

We do not accept English Literature.

Requirements for international students requiring a student visa (Tier 4):

  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a First Language (Syllabus 0500): Grade C overall required, with at least grade 1 or 2 in Listening and Speaking when these components are reported separately.
  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a First Language (Syllabus 0522): Grade C overall
  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a Second Language (Syllabus 0511): Grade B overall
  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a Second Language (Syllabus 0510): Grade B overall with at least grade 1 or 2 in Speaking when this component is reported separately.

Requirements for students who DO NOT require a student visa (Tier 4):

  • Cambridge International Examinations (CIE)/AQA IGCSE English Language (First Language) – C
  • CIE IGCSE English Language (Second Language) – B
  • Edexcel IGCSE English Language A or B syllabus – C
  • Edexcel IGCSE English as a Second Language - B

Fees

UK Student Fee

MA Magazine Journalism

Full-time: £8500

Part-time: £4250

PGDip Magazine Journalism

Full-time: £5670

Part-time: £2835

International Student Fee

MA Magazine Journalism

Full-time: £15500

Part-time: £7750

PGDip Magazine Journalism

Full-time: £10335

Part-time: £5170


This information was accurate on : 07/04/2021
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