Journalism (Including Placement Year)
BA · The University of Essex · 4 years
25% of this course's students did not continue past year one. Worth asking the university about directly.
About this course
Our BA Journalism course equips you to become a journalist with the news awareness, story-getting and story-telling skills to flourish. This course equips you to become a journalist with the news awareness, story-getting and story-telling skills to flourish in today's multimedia journalism environment. We live in a connected world with instant access to whatever news we want, whenever and wherever we want it. We don't have to wait for the newspaper to hit the streets or for the evening news bulletin; anyone with a smartphone can be a reporter, able to record, edit and publish whatever they like. The challenge for professional journalists in this digital age is to provide news and information that can be trusted, meeting the demands created by new technology and changing habits without sacrificing core professional values. Our degree has been designed with the future needs of this rapidly
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