Program Overview

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BA (Hons) Journalism

Overview

Are you passionate about storytelling? Are you bursting with ideas and questions? Do you want to make sure issues which matter to your community get the attention they deserve?

Why choose this course?

A BA (Hons) in Multimedia Journalism at the University of Wolverhampton will give you the tools you need to turn that passion into a career.

What's unique about this course?

• Journalism at Wolverhampton is part of the multi-million-pound Screen School.
• You will work in two new TV studios, a radio studio and a fully equipped newsroom which all match the standards of the big employers like ITV, the BBC and Sky news.
• You will be taught by award-winning broadcasters and journalists who continue to work in the industry and have up-to-the-minute knowledge and experience of newsrooms and broadcast technology.
• You will work in two TV studios, two radio studios and a fully functioning digital newsroom.
• You will make live TV new programmes, podcasts and news websites.
• You will be taught the tools to promote yourself as an online influencer and trusted internet news source.
• You will be supported in a work placement with a mainstream news outlet or public relations department.
• You will have opportunities to report at Premier League and EFL football stadia.
• You will receive comprehensive media law training, essential for securing a job in journalism.

What happens on the course?

You will spend your first year getting fully trained on the same technology used by the very best professional journalists. By the end of the year, you will have produced your first TV and audio reports. You will also explore some of the theory and ideas around modern journalism and get a firm grounding in Politics and how it interacts with our role.

Throughout your second and third years, you will be a full member of the team producing “WLV NEWS” from our studio complex on City Campus. Once a week, we run a professional digital newsroom producing a TV news programme, a radio current affairs show and podcast, a digital news platform, and social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok, all under the WLV News brand. You will join a roster and take on roles such as Presenter, Reporter, Producer, News Editor and Online Editor, and together you will produce high quality broadcast and online news under real-world conditions. By the end of your two years as a journalist on the WLV NEWS team, you will have a body of work with which you can impress potential employers.

Away from the newsroom, your second year will also include comprehensive legal training for reporters; a basic requirement for employment to all reputable news organisations.

We will also focus on the written word, and how to research and write great feature articles for magazines, newspapers, and online platforms, and on the unique discipline of photojournalism.

In the summer break between second and third years, we will support you to find a work placement in a professional newsroom or equivalent, and we will help you to make sense of the experience. As part of this module we will also help you build your online presence and brand as a journalist.

In your final year, as well as taking on more senior roles in the weekly WLV News team, you will get the chance to flex your creative muscles by independently producing a TV documentary or podcast focussed on an issue of your choice.

We also explore the world of public relations; how it interacts with the work of journalists and how it could also offer a fascinating career option for you.

In short, by the end of your three years active journalists will have given you will have hands-on experience of every area of a journalist’s working life, and researchers and academics will have led you through some of the most contentious and fascinating debates around the industry.

Additional Information

BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism

• The member of academic staff who leads this course is Gareth Owen.
• For more information about our facilities.
• Related Courses: BA (Hons) Film Production with Foundation Year

Wolverhampton School of Art

• For more information about the Wolverhampton School of Art: visit our home page.
• Discover more about our outstanding facilities – visit our facilities pages.
• Check out the work of our 2023 graduating students on our Degree Show page.

Why Wolverhampton?

We have a lovely campus here at Wolverhampton, with great facilities: two fully- equipped television and radio studios, newsroom, HD cameras, editing suites, and a dedicated enthusiastic team ready to help you at anytime. This course is designed to meet current industry standards for broadcast and print journalism, where the use of multimedia news packages is essential for delivering news to broad audiences. Our course offers placements, career advice and other networking opportunities for all of our students and considers the development of innovative and entrepreneurial skills to allow students to engage in local, national and international media, working in partnerships or as freelancers, and connecting them with employers and professional bodies.

You can showcase your work and start building your own audience by contributing to our students online news channel, check out the latest student work and follow us on Twitter: @weare_BCN.

Students from all years of the course can contribute to the news channel; we encourage you to work in teams to cover Radio, TV and Online media creation. It is a great opportunity for you to act like journalists in a controlled and safe environment.

Comment from our External Examiner:

"Each year the samples material I have read contained wonderful work from exciting modules with an impressive range of academic and practical assessment tasks. I appreciate that a great deal of work goes into how to achieve the best results from students. The internal markers applied impressive standards in grading, providing high-quality feedback and should be congratulated on the quality of the Course content."

What skills will you gain?

• Reporting for broadcast and online
• Live TV News production
• Radio and podcast production
• Video editing
• Audio editing
• Camera operation
• Script writing
• Media Law
• Personal brand-building
• Live presenting
• Employability
• Team Working

Course Fees and Finance

Location | Mode | Fee | Year
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Home | Full-time | £9250 per year |
Home | Full-time | £9535 per year |
Home | Part-time | £4625 per year# |
Home | Part-time | £4768 per year# |
International | Full-time | £14950 per year |
International | Full-time | £15995 per year |

Additional Course Costs

Additional Materials: £50 to 250 per semester - Prices vary according your subject of practice.

Additional Field Trips: £50 to 500 - Prices will vary according to location.

Additional Events: £350 - Degree Show/New Designers.

Costs will vary according to the medium and mode of your practice but considerations will be around materials, installation and presentation.

Further information on these additional costs will be provided prior to the start of your studies

Entry Requirements

Typical entry requirement: 96 UCAS points

• A Levels - grades CCC / BCD
• BTEC L3 Extended Diploma or OCR Cambridge L3 Technical Extended Diploma - grades MMM
• BTEC L3 Diploma - grades DD
• Access to HE Diploma (60 credits) of which a minimum of 45 must be at Level 3 (96 UCAS point equivalence, minimum 45 credits at merit)
• UAL L3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design or Creative Media Production & Technology - grade M
• QQI (Quality and Qualifications Ireland) Level 5 and Level 6

Use the UCAS Tariff calculator to check your qualifications and points

• If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
• International entry requirements and application guidance can be found at

Other Requirements

Those meeting the entry requirements may be shortlisted to attend an interview. Further details can be found at apply/4---after-youve-applied/subject-specific-applications/. Applicants will also be required to provide satisfactory reference.

Students must have studied a minimum of two years post GCSE level. However, it is expected that some applicants will be mature students with work experience, who wish to further their career development. These applicants will be processed through standard procedures, which may involve an interview as part of the process. Please see for further information.

What our students say

Funding

Tuition Fees Loan(Home Fee Status):

Most students will be able to apply for a loans to pay for these subject to eligibility. To find out more information please refer to the government Student Finance website.****Changes for EU students:

The UK government has confirmed that EU students starting courses from 1 August 2021 will normally be classified as having Overseas Fee status. More information about the change is available at UKCISA:

EU citizens living in the UK with 'settled' status, and Irish nationals living in the UK or Ireland, will still be classified as Home students, providing they meet the usual residency requirements, for more information about EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) ****Self-funding:**

If you don’t want to take out a loan to pay your fees or if you aren’t eligible to receive a loan, you might want to take advantage of the University’s scheme to pay by instalments: See How to pay.

For more information please contact the Gateway.****Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees:

If your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.

We must receive notification of sponsorship in writing as soon as possible, and before enrolment , confirming that the sponsor will pay your tuition fees.

Financial Hardship:

Students can apply to the Dennis Turner Opportunity Fund.

for help with course related costs however this cannot be used for fees or to cover general living costs.

Bursaries and Scholarships:

In addition the University also offers a range of Bursaries and Scholarships packages

You can find more information on the University’s Funding, cost, fee and support pages.