Our Joint Honours degree develops your linguistic skills and knowledge in communication, contemporary society, and culture whilst allowing you to acquire the skills to work in today's reporting environments. Studying Journalism at Worcester equips you with the skills to build a career in newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, or online and build a writing specialism. English Language at Worcester allows you to see how language shapes our worlds, brings thoughts to life, and forms our identities through linguistic and stylistic choices. This can be used to shape your journalistic style.
The Journalism aspect of this course will provide you with practical skills to work as a journalist or researcher, or in related communications jobs such as those in public relations. You will be well placed to progress to postgraduate study in journalism or in a wide range of other areas. Students have found employment in the following areas: radio presenting, both local and national, media research, journalism, event organizing, media planning, television, theatre, marketing, public relations, campaigns, teaching, and further study.
Many graduates of English Language Studies courses will take a postgraduate education course as a fourth year of study and enter the teaching profession. Others will find that the skills acquired through the study of English are particularly highly regarded in all professions where good communication skills are prized such as publishing, journalism, public relations, human resources, and web-based communication. English Language Studies provide continuous opportunities to develop employability skills and include work experience options. There is a range of opportunities to study for a semester abroad in Europe and the USA in the second semester of the second year.