BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism (Full Time)

Do you want to be a journalist? This degree is designed for 21st Century journalists, professionally trained to excel in all areas of journalism.

Course overview

The Multimedia Journalism degree at Southampton Solent University trains you in all areas of multi-platform journalism, enabling you to produce stories for the web, print, and broadcast media. The emphasis is on your practical skills, writing stories, recording and editing interviews - being a journalist from day one.

Journalism is about telling stories, but it is also about changing the world around you. The skills on this course are underpinned by current multimedia theory and critical analysis, so when adapting your practical skills you are able to produce relevant professional content in a deadline-driven environment and build your reputation as a journalist.

Students on this degree are also fully prepared to undertake the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) preliminary examinations, giving added professional recognition to your studies.

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Industrial focus

With strong regional and national media links your progress and development as a working journalist is enhanced by real live briefs from industry and publishing assignments to ensure the skills you are learning and using are relevant and meet industry demand.

Solent Creatives, our professional agency at Southampton Solent University, gives you the opportunity to realise your potential. Working on live journalism projects breeds confidence, builds your portfolio and makes you even more employable.

Students on this course can go straight into employment as a journalist in regional and national press, local, national and international broadcasters and digital radio stations. The skills you learn can also lead to a wide range of career options involving production, editing and writing.

Course content

Year 1

Writing for multi-platform media, audio recording and editing, video recording and editing, photography, media law and shorthand.

Year 2

Producing multimedia news and feature packages, advanced news and features writing, multimedia theory, sub-editing and content management systems.

Year 3

Final Major Project, Professional Practice running a live website, advanced multimedia theory.

Why choose this course?

• If you want to be a journalist, look no further. The skills on this course are exactly what editors want. You can work in print, broadcast and online areas of the journalism industry
• Practical skills and theoretical discussion is balanced to allow you to understand your role as a journalist and to become the objective and ethical journalist that can be trusted by the public.
  International study trips to Paris (Year 1) New York (Year 2) and Beijing/Tokyo (Year 3).
• Links with more than 30 work placement partners, including Sky, BBC, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Express, Grazia, Now and Vogue.

Assessment

Course assignments, essays, exams, portfolio building, 'live' projects, presentation and Year 3 project. 

Key career skills

Creative thinking, writing, presentation, teamwork, IT, analytical skills. 

Projects/work experience

Students are expected to research and plan work experience during the year. You will also work with the ‘Solent Creatives’ agency on live projects in the south of England to build your portfolio and run the course website and social networking links to the degree. 

Student profile

Mara Petrescu

"On this course we get to act like real journalists. We have had several guests visiting our course, including journalists Richard Cartridge (BBC) and Pete Clifton (MSN UK) who talked to us about what it means to be a journalist and what should we expect out of it. The lecturers make every seminar and lecture an opportunity for us to “go out there” and be where the story is which is great.

"I chose to study this course at Solent because you get the chance to know all the areas that journalism and media have to offer. You study a bit of everything including magazine journalism, writing for a newspaper, radio broadcasting, television, photography, which helps you to choose which area to work within in the future.

"I would recommend this course to all the students who want to explore journalism in its complexity. You get to work with genius lecturers who are still working journalists, meet all sorts of brilliant, famous people working for the BBC, Sky, or well-known publications and start practicing the actual job as a journalist from the very beginning."

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