Writing for Media BA (Hons)

Strong written-communication and technical skills are much in demand across the fast-evolving creative industries. This course gives you this winning combination of skills covering image sound and multimedia and opening up a wide choice of career paths.

This wide-ranging course offers you the opportunity to develop and create content across a range of genres and formats for diverse media including radio television digital and print. It prepares you to enter a range of creative-led businesses from small start-ups requiring agile and flexible workers to larger companies which communicate to their audiences through a range of platforms.

Units include practice in writing scripts journalism for both television and online and content for radio as well as developing your technical skills in audio and video. You also study units focusing on issues of intellectual property publishing and new directions such as trans-media storytelling.

Why choose this course?

• Develop excellent communication and professional writing skills which you can adapt flexibly according to platform audience and purpose
• Learn with an academic team that specialises in producing content for the media through text sound and image with expertise in radio television journalism digital and creative writing
• Take up opportunities to work in collaboration with other students on a range of projects
• Find an area of specialisation through producing your own special project leading to an end-of-degree portfolio of media work
• Put your skills into practice reporting for our news website or developing your own radio show for our on-site community radio station Radio LaB
• Gain skills that open doors to careers in areas such as content production and development marketing editorial advertising and research

To apply for a place on an undergraduate course (BA/BSc) you need to have completed your high school education (12 years) and have a pass equivalent to two UK A level passes and have the required English language qualification.

When you submit an application form you must remember to include photocopies of the following supporting documents. We do not need to see your original qualifications and certificates.

• A completed application form signed by you (an electronic signature is fine)
• Copies of your official academic qualifications and certificates including proof of your level of English Language (where relevant)
• A one-page personal statement. This should tell us why you want to study your chosen course.
• A copy of your current valid passport details
• Please submit copies of any UK Visa that you have held and any documentation relating to previous visa refusals from any country