BA (Hons) Sports Journalism

Our course offers an exciting but practical, hands-on approach to learning how to report on sport. By the time you finish your degree, you’ll be fully trained as a multi-platform journalist, ready to write for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the internet, and mobile apps. During our course, you could end up interviewing the England cricket captain. Or reporting on a Football League match. Or being taken on a tour of Wembley or Sky Studios. Or, here in London’s Olympic heartland, writing a feature from the University of East London’s £21 million SportsDock facilities for our website, Rising East. Guided by expert lecturers and tutors who are all working sports journalists, we aim to develop your passion and knowledge of sport so that you can deliver and share it with others.

Foundation Year(If Required)

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

Year 1

• Essential Journalism
• Photo, Audio, and Video
• Media Law, Ethics and Regulation
• Production Journalism
• Broadcast Journalism
• Mental Wealth: Rising East 1

Year 2

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

Year 3

• Mental Wealth: Rising East 3
• Final Project: Development
• Final Project: Completion
• Aesthetics and Technologies: Publications (2)
• Features (2): Data and Visualisation
• Reporting the Politics of Sport

Employability

The professional grounding you receive in all areas of sports writing will arm you with the skills needed to help secure many different types of jobs within the sports business. After earning their degrees, our students have gone on to work not just in sports media but in other areas connected to the sports world. For instance, recent graduates now work for organizations such as media management company Red Bee, public relations firm Weber Shandwick and Coral bookmakers. Our work placements and the chance to learn from journalists who have made their names at organizations like BBC Sport, talkSPORT radio, Sky, and World Soccer magazine open up invaluable pathways for your future. They’ll offer you the chance to earn valuable contacts, as will your close ties with the athletes you’ll be lucky enough to meet during your course. For example, in 2012 our students worked with TeamUSA before the Olympics. Since the Games, we’ve maintained close contacts with UEL’s elite sportsmen and women who train at the SportsDock center, including sprint stars Adam Gemili and Bianca Williams and leading swimmer Aimee Willmott. One of our recent graduates now works in the marketing and communications department at SportsDock.