Year 1 (national level 4):
Core modules:
- Essential Sports Reporting (20 credits)
Gain an introduction to the roles of sports journalists. Learn the history and traditions of sports journalism, recent developments in the profession and current sports news issues. Develop an understanding of key sports, and how these sports are structured and run. Build your sports journalism skills writing content for the SportsByte website and learn techniques for analysing a variety of sports reporting.
- Online Sports Journalism (20 credits)
Discover a range of tools and techniques for publishing sports content online. Learn how to use a basic content management system to create a website and populate the site with a range of written, audio and visual content. Explore techniques for curating content, gathering user-generated content and interacting with audiences.
- Essential Media Law and Regulation (20 credits)
Learn the laws and ethical codes journalists must consider when preparing and publishing legally safe and ethically responsible content for print, online, broadcast and social media platforms. Explore areas including anonymity, libel, privacy, copyright, contempt of court and other statutes which affect journalistic practice and output.
- Media Histories (20 credits)
Trace the evolution of the mass media from the advent of print journalism in the 16th century, through the establishment of the press, radio and television industries to the multi-platform digital and online technology of today.
- Essential Journalism (20 credits)
Learn role of the journalist and the range of practical skills needed to produce news, magazine and sports content, including research, newsgathering, interviewing, copy presentation and writing style.
- Digital Storytelling (20 credits)
Develop digital skills for an online audience such as infomaps, graphics and other non-traditional storytelling techniques.