Course summary
This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview Are you a budding critic, publisher, or journalist? Our BA (Hons) Journalism with Media Studies degree course gives you a critical understanding of the media field while providing a grounding in journalism disciplines and techniques. You'll learn from published media researchers and expert journalists, as well as using professional-grade media analysis and production facilities. You’ll also develop transferable skills you'll be able to use in any profession. With the option of taking industry placements and the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) qualifications, you can tailor your study on this course to fit your ideal journalistic or media career. Course highlights
- Get further professional qualifications by taking National Council for Training Journalists (NCTJ) exams
- Refine your practice by learning from published media researchers and journalists with written and broadcast experience in local, regional, national and international journalism
- Learn more about the journalism and media industries by meeting visiting professionals from industry bodies – past guests include Dream Team FC, The Times, Novara Media, Sky News, and the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street
- Gain valuable industry experience by taking optional placements throughout your degree
- Enhance your teamworking skills by collaborating with other students on other courses within the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Capture information at up to 100 words per minute by taking shorthand training
- online, newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalism
- social media
- public relations
- marketing
- corporate communications
- publishing
- teaching (with further study)
- campaign assistant
- editorial assistant
- PR and marketing assistant
- trainee reporter
- journalist
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Academic Skills and Career Planning (20 credits)
- Global Screens (20 credits)
- Introduction to Media Studies (20 credits)
- Journalism in Context (20 credits)
- Media Law and Regulation (L4) (20 credits)
- Reporting (20 credits)
- Feature Writing and Media Research (20 credits)
- Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture (20 credits)
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice (20 credits)
- Factual Media Production (20 credits)
- Investigative Journalism (20 credits)
- Media, Culture and National Identity (20 credits)
- Mobile Journalism (20 credits)
- Press and Public Relations (20 credits)
- Professional Experience (20 credits)
- Propaganda (20 credits)
- Screen Media (20 credits)
- Social Media and Journalism (20 credits)
- Specialist Journalism (20 credits)
- Student Enterprise (20 credits)
- Celebrity and Society (20 credits)
- Cultures of Consumption (20 credits)
- Digital Media and Democracy (20 credits)
- Dissertation (40 credits)
- Global Journalism and Human Rights (20 credits)
- Journalism Special Investigation (40 credits)
- Magazines: Print Media in a Digital World (20 credits)
- Media Fan Cultures (20 credits)
- Money, Government and Power (20 credits)
- News, War and Peace (20 credits)
- Placement (20 credits)
- Representing Science in the Media (20 credits)
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through:
- essays and close textual analysis
- in-class tests
- media artefacts
- seminar presentations
- a 10,000-word dissertation
- post-placement assessment
- Year 1 students: 22% by written exams and 78% by coursework
- Year 2 students: 17% by practical exams and 83% by coursework
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 - 120 points
A level - BBB - BBC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 25 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H3
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - M
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £9250 | Year 1 |
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
International | £17200 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP