BA (Hons) Journalism (With Foundation Year)

This extended course is perfect if you want a degree in Journalism but you don’t meet the standard entry requirements. First, we prepare you for your degree during the foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. Then you can go on to do the full undergraduate degree. On our increasingly well-regarded journalism course, we develop enquiring minds so that you will be the ones to report tomorrow’s stories and find the answers to today’s questions. If you want to become a journalist and explore what journalism is and where it’s heading, this is the perfect course for you. Guided by staff with 150 years of combined journalistic expertise between them, you’ll be given a practical grounding in print, radio, photo, and online journalism.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Academic Development (Core)
• Creative Project (Core)
• Ways of Seeing (Core)
• Narrative and Creativity (Core)
• Group Film Project (Core)
• Professional Development: Mental Wealth (Core)

Year 1

• Narrative 1: Narrative fiction (Core)
• Documentary 1: Documentary and Representation (Core)
• Aesthetics and Technologies 1: Practice as research (Core)
• Media Cultures (Core)
• Professional life: Mental Wealth – Agency 1 (Core)
• Social Media & Branded Content Design (Core)

Year 2

• Narrative 2: Advanced narrative (Core)
• Documentary 2: Experimental Documentary (Core)
• Employability and Enterprise (Core)
• Professional life: Mental Wealth – Agency 2 (Core)
• Celebrity & Influencer Marketing (Core)
• Digital Research in Practice (Core)

Year 3

• Final Project Development (Core)
• Final Project Completion (Core)
• Content Design & Execution (Core)
• Self-Branding; Identity & Social Media (Core)
• Aesthetics and Technologies 2: professional practices (Core)
• Professional life: Mental Wealth – Agency 2 (Core)

Employability

We pride ourselves on teaching such a range of key skills that you’ll find many doors to stimulating future employment open to you after graduation – and not just in advertising. UEL graduates have gone on to succeed in other areas such as market research, marketing, and public relations. That is, in part, down to the contacts you can make during the course. Many students have managed to land jobs after making an impact on employers during their work placements. UEL advertising graduates have the advantage of enjoying a wealth of industry knowledge together with a deep understanding of consumer culture. So it’s little wonder our graduates are in demand to work in a range of promotional industries.