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Magazine Journalism at Kingston University - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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Open days

26Jun
Kingston University postgraduate virtual Open Event
Postgraduate

Course summary

Reasons to choose Kingston

  • Kingston has a successful partnership with magazine publisher Haymarket, which offers placements, joint projects and job opportunities.
  • You will produce an online and print magazine. For the last three years it has been shortlisted for, and/ or won, the national Student Publication Awards.
  • Our popular design classes will cover professional training in both InDesign and Photoshop. You will produce video journalism and podcasts as well as having access to the new media lab at our Knights Park campus and the new library’s dedicated magazines/journals area.
About this course This course features hands-on activities such as feature writing, interviewing, sub-editing, magazine production, blogging, and writing and uploading online copy. In an editorial team, you will produce two magazines and a magazine website and undertake a placement on a published title. You will also have the opportunity to study magazine design, production, fashion and sport or data journalism. Finally, you will carry out a 12–15,000 word dissertation or a related practical project. Example modules
  • Creating Magazines: Content and Context
  • Feature Writing
  • Journalism in Context: Law, Ethics and the Industry
For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.

Modules

Example modules: Creating Magazines: Content and Context; Feature Writing; Journalism in Context: Law, Ethics and the Industry. For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.

Assessment method

Assessment typically comprises exams and coursework (such as essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation). The approximate percentage for how you will be assessed on this course is as follows, though depends to some extent on the optional modules you choose. Type of assessment: Coursework: 92% Exams: 8%

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Periodicals Training Council

Entry requirements

We normally expect candidates to have: a 2:1 or above honours degree or equivalent in an essay-writing subject, demonstrating high standards of literacy; and/or evidence of substantial and demonstrable professional commitment to journalism.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £17700 Year 1
England £10900 Year 1
Northern Ireland £10900 Year 1
Scotland £10900 Year 1
Wales £10900 Year 1
International £17700 Year 1

Additional fee information

Please visit the course provider webpage for further information regarding additional course costs.
Magazine Journalism at Kingston University - UCAS