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BA (Hons) Journalism with Creative Writing

University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

If you love writing and reporting, our Journalism with Creative Writing degree course can help you turn your abilities with the written word into a fulfilling career.

You'll study, experience, and combine the complementary disciplines of factual journalism and creative writing. One day you might write a news report about a local charity or review a concert, and the next author a short story, a poem, or a play script.

You'll also develop research skills and learn about the structure and mechanisms of the industries you could end up working in – from getting a script approved to legal issues surrounding publishing news stories.

You’ll graduate ready to dive into a career in professional writing, with the skills and knowledge you need to get started in whichever writing field you choose.

General Eligibility

  • A levels – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112–128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent

  • T levels – Merit

  • BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM

  • International Baccalaureate – 25

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Placement year

On this course you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in the journalism, advertising, public relations or marketing industries.

You can also start your own business in your placement year.

We'll help you secure a placement that fits your career goals. You'll get mentoring and support to make the most out of your placement year.

2 Year 1

Core modules

  • Academic Skills and Career Planning

  • Journalism in Context

  • Media Law and Regulation (L4)

  • Reporting

  • Telling Tales

  • True Stories

3 Year 2

Core modules:

  • Feature Writing and Media Research

Optional modules:

  • Creative Writing and Critical Thinking

  • Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice

  • Factual Media Production

  • Feature Writing and Media Research

  • Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange

  • Finding Form - Fiction

  • Finding Form - Nonfiction

  • Finding Form - Speculative Fiction

  • Investigative Journalism

  • Mobile Journalism

  • Modern Foreign Language

  • Press and Public Relations

  • Professional Experience

  • Social Media and Journalism

  • Specialist Journalism

  • Student Enterprise

4 Year 3

Optional modules:

  • Dissertation

  • Journalism Special Investigation

  • Digital Media and Democracy

  • Fact and Fiction

  • Fan Fiction

  • Global Journalism and Human Rights

  • Magazines: Print Media in a Digital World

  • Money, Government and Power

  • Placement

  • Travel Writing: Global and Local Engagements

  • Writing Project (with Publishing)

Language Requirement

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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