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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Parkside Building Campus
Full Time
SEP
4 Years
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Parkside Building Campus
Full Time
SEP
4 Years
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
City Centre Campus
Full Time
SEP
4 Years
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This course will prepare you for a career in journalism by providing you with the knowledge and cutting-edge skills required to be a professional journalist. You will become an agile, independent reporter working across multiple platforms with the ability to understand the democratic role of journalism in society, ensuring a diversity of stories are told. The course will enable you to become an adaptable journalist capable of working in innovative, engaging and entrepreneurial ways.This course has been designed in close collaboration with leading industry experts and researchers in journalism. Through a range of complementary modules, you will learn a diverse set of journalistic skills for all news platforms and understand the wider issues that face the journalism industry. The course will prepare you for everything from live reporting to interviewing key figures, enabling you to ask the difficult questions required to cover the key contemporary issues that make up an ever-changing and increasingly diverse news agenda.
Exam type
A levelA level:
CDD Grades / Points required
Scottish Higher:
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Scottish Advanced Higher:
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UCAS Tariff:
80 Grades / Points required
Access to HE Diploma:
Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.
GCSE/National 4/National 5:
This course does not require evidence of GCSE qualifications. Please see A Level, BTEC and other level 3 requirements below. Grades / Points required
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:
24 Grades / Points required
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017):
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016):
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):
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T Level:
Pass (C and above) Grades / Points required
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£9,535 per year
Students from Domestic
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£9,535 per year
Students from England
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£9,535 per year
Students from Scotland
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£9,535 per year
Students from Wales
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£9,535 per year
Students from Northern Ireland
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£17,690 per year
Students from EU
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£17,690 per year
Students from International
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