Film and Journalism (including Placement Year)
BA · The University of Essex · 4 years
About this course
Our BA Film and Journalism offers a creative, flexible degree with a strong foundation for employability, and is balanced between both disciplines. Our joint honours BA Film and Journalism at Essex offers a creative, flexible degree with a strong foundation for employability. Your degree is balanced 50-50 between the disciplines of Film and Journalism, but there will be many modules where the two disciplines come together, for example in modules such as ‘Documentary Filmmaking' and ‘Advanced Practical Journalism.' On the Journalism side, you will become thoroughly grounded in the theory and practice of journalism, develop your craft of writing and broadcasting skills to a high level, and make sound editorial judgements. You will gain investigative and analytical skills, learning to work effectively on your own and in teams to produce the best journalism. In Film you will study the histor
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