BA (Hons) Journalism

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 100 years of combined journalistic expertise between them, you’ll be given a practical grounding in print, radio, photo, and online journalism. You’ll learn how to produce authoritative, incisive, and imaginative work. As you search for the inside track on the vibrant, important living story that is east London, you’ll find no better place to practice your journalistic skills. You’ll look at the problems, pitfalls, and potential for today’s journalism, studying its past and debating its future.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Academic Development
• Creative Portfolio
• Journalism Portfolio
• Narrative and Creativity
• Group Film Project
• Professional Development (Mental Wealth)

Year 1

• Essential Journalism
• Photo, Audio, and Video
• Media Law, Ethics and Regulation
• Production Journalism
• Broadcast Journalism
• Mental Wealth – Professional Life 1 (Rising East)

Year 2

• Mental Wealth Professional Life 2 (Rising East 2)
• Employment and Enterprise (work placement)
• Features (1): Interviews
• Brands and the Magazines Business
• Documentary (1): Publications (1)
• Reporting Politics and Society

Year 3

• Mental Wealth – Professional Life 3 (Rising East 3)
• Final Project: Development
• Final Project: Completion
• Aesthetics and Technologies: Publications (2)
• Features (2): Data and Visualisation
• The Long Read

Employability

Journalism is, of course, a competitive world to enter. You have a head start at UEL, though, thanks to teachers with exceptional contacts who know exactly what newspapers, radio stations, and other media outlets are looking for. Indeed, the track record of our graduates demonstrates that anything is possible. Sam Wostear, one of our first journalism graduates, went on to become Woman Editor of The Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling daily newspaper. Siobhan Breatnach, who earned an MA in Journalism at UEL in 2009, became the editor of the Irish Post within three years of leaving us. Ferdia Carr, who graduated in 2015, found work at ITN. Some of our graduates have gone into local or online journalism, contract publishing, or public relations. Others have chosen to continue their studies, taking an MA in Creative Writing or a Ph.D. in Journalism.