Course summary

Are you a budding journalist keen to acquire practical journalistic skills? Do you want to gain a sophisticated understanding of the rapidly changing fields of journalism and media? If so, our BA Journalism and Media is ideal with its combination of academic analysis and practical teaching from experienced industry professionals. Why choose this course?

• This BA Journalism and Media gives you the opportunity to gain an independent, university-level qualification focused on strategic and advanced skills. Not only will you gain practical knowledge of the journalism field, but you will also gain the skills needed to build, manage and navigate a career within today's media landscape.

• The course offers you insights afforded by a degree that investigates the political, social and cultural dimensions of news and media as well as allowing you to master the full range of vocational skills required to work across different genres, mediums and platforms of journalism and media production.

• Acquire up-to-date skills and knowledge from experienced practitioners at the heart of London's global media industry and leading academic researchers in the field, such as Professor Tim Markham, Joel McKim, Scott Rodgers and Justin Schlosberg.

• Attend our dynamic programme of seminars, events and guest lecturers organised by affiliated research centres and networks.

• In film, media and cultural studies, Birkbeck offers an extensive portfolio of internationally respected courses that span a variety of academic disciplines and engage with journalism, media and cultural theory, arts policy and management, film and television studies, creative marketing, digital culture and East Asian cultural studies.

• We affiliate with a number of research centres and networks, including Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology and the Centre for French, Francophone and Comparative Studies.

• Birkbeck was ranked as one of the top four universities in the UK for its Art and Design research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

• an advanced critical ability in the use of theoretical perspectives

• research, analysis and project management skills

• fluency with academic concepts and theories.

• journalism

• media

• public relations

• creative industries.