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MA Global Journalism and Public Relations

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    MA 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time, 16-24 months (with professional experience)

Course Description

In our increasingly digital world, journalists are frequently called upon to report on diverse global issues and this master’s course prepares you for global journalism and public relations practice and analysis.

It covers all the areas of journalism, from legal and ethical issues to practical interviewing, writing, broadcast and web skills.

  • Benefiting from our current links with the media industry, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky, Africa-based media and online outlets here in the UK and elsewhere including USA.
  • The course is taught by experienced tutors with decades of practical journalism and public relations experience, and in addition you will have opportunities to attend guest lectures (subject to availability) by top as well as upcoming journalists and public relations practitioners including alumni.
  • Gaining hands-on experience, you will be expected to work as part of a team on group projects, such as a magazine (see our Magcloud site) and a global collaborative newscast themed around pressing contemporary issues.

Entry Requirements

Applicants should hold a good honours degree of 2:2 or above in any subject. Applications from candidates with relevant experience will be considered on an individual basis.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

Funding opportunities including scholarships available

Student Destinations

This course prepares you for a broad range of positions in regional, national or international journalism, media, communications and PR – as a researcher, reporter, writer, editor or presenter, for example.

Career prospects are vast and varied, from established national and international media outlets, broadcasting organisations, newspapers and magazines, to emerging broadcast contexts, such as web-based text journalism, web-TV and web-radio.

Our Faculty of Arts and Humanities Talent Team is on hand to offer tailored career and enterprise support if you wish to gain employment or take advantage of professional practice opportunities within course specific industries2. The course equips students for work in a wider range of careers that require transferable knowledge and skills such as global awareness, research, writing and communication with specific or general audiences including via various media. Our dedicated enterprise officers also can offer valuable assistance on how to begin as a freelancer/entrepreneur.

Module Details

With professional experience option

The professional experience opportunity enables you the opportunity to apply for optional professional experience in semester 1, which, upon successfully securing an opportunity, will extend the duration of your master’s to either 16, 20 or 24 months. The professional experience provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability.

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