This degree offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.We teach the next generation of talented journalists. This degree gives you all the skills you need to go behind the headlines and build a career as a journalist in the age of the internet.Choose our foundation year route if you want to strengthen your knowledge and skills before you progress to stage one of the BA (Hons) Journalism degree.Gain substantial practical experience of researching and producing powerful print, audio, video and online stories.Get to grips with the latest techniques and technologies which are transforming journalism in an era of digital news.Hone your skills in our outstanding facilities which include TV and radio studios as well as a fully equipped newsroom.Take the chance to specialise in a journalistic genre of your choice – from film to fashion, sport to crime, science to politics. This course develops the broad range of knowledge and skills you need to become a multimedia professional, adept in the production of content for print, online and broadcast outlets. Our graduates have gone on to work for magazines and local newspapers BBC, commercial and community radio and BBC and commercial TV. Others have set up their own digital businesses or worked for online agencies.You’ll be prepared not only for a career in journalism, online or broadcast media production but also for roles in PR, advertising, corporate communications, law and public administration or politics. The research and communication skills of a journalist are highly transferable to a huge variety of graduate level jobs.5 Years with optional placement year