Our MA Journalism explores the opportunities and challenges posed by the digital revolution in gathering and presenting news.
Essential Info
You will have the opportunity to develop practical skills and produce innovative work and research. Through our experience in providing multiplatform journalism education and our culture of innovation, we are ideally placed to address the technological and cultural challenges facing 21st century journalism. On this Masters journalism degree, you will not only develop skills in digital journalism, but will explore deep, broad and innovative responses to the challenges posed by interactivity and convergence.
This postgraduate degree in journalism is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC).
If you choose to study on a postgraduate course at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, you will also benefit from being part of a vibrant international student community.
What You Will Study
The MA Journalism includes the following modules:
- Newsgathering/Writing Skills – interactive and converged journalism
- Law and Regulation – specific to the interactive/converged environment
- Academic Research Skills
- Relevant Media Theory
- Video Journalism/Online Production/Technical Digital Skills
- Major Project – a chance to pursue innovative approaches to the emerging journalistic environment
This journalism course culminates in a Masters-level dissertation module that can be an individual academic investigation or substantial piece of journalism practice.
Common Modules
The Faculty understands the importance of a strong grounding in research knowledge and skills, enterprise and innovation as part of a balanced postgraduate education.
We also recognise that each student has different requirements of their postgraduate experience.
You can choose to study one of the following three, 20 credit common modules. Each of these has a different focus, enabling you to select the module that will be most beneficial to you.
Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
This module aims to develop your knowledge of the methods to identify, develop and manage enterprise and innovation in the creative sector. It will then help you apply this to your own entrepreneurial project.
Research and Practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries
The focus of this module is on the development of research knowledge and skills, while also encouraging critical engagement with approaches to creative practice. You will also explore ideas, debates and issues in the creative and cultural industries.
Research Paradigms
This module focuses on research paradigms and their theoretical underpinnings. It also looks at key conceptual tools drawn from a wide range of subject areas relevant to postgraduate research in the creative industries.
How You Will Study
The MA Journalism degree is taught through lectures, seminars and project work. You will be expected to produce practical work on a weekly basis and a placement is a compulsory element of the course. Although the course will be taught in English, it is possible to submit work through the medium of Welsh. All staff teaching the journalism modules are professional journalists.
Learning Through Employment
Learning Through Employment is a University of Glamorgan framework that offers students who are already in employment the opportunity to gain credits towards a postgraduate qualification.
The programme is structured so that the majority of learning takes place through active and reflective engagement with your work activities, underpinned by the appropriate academic knowledge and skills.
All postgraduate courses at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries offer students the opportunity to undertake a 60 credit Learning Through Employment Research Project as an alternative to a traditional final dissertation, major project or production.
The focus of the project is an individual, organisational problem solving, knowledge-based approach.
As such, it has been is designed for practising professionals to provide them with the tools to succeed in the workplace.
This truly flexible approach means that projects can be based on an agreed area of work, benefitting students and employers, and because the majority of the project is carried out in the workplace, it can potentially be undertaken anywhere in the world.
For full details, visit our Learning Through Employment pages.
Possible Career Options
Successful completion of this MA Journalism degree will allow mid-career journalists and industry newcomers to provide potential employers with evidence of a skills-based but strategic approach to the new journalistic environment.
Additional Information
Facilities
Our purpose built ATRiuM campus in Cardiff features state-of-the-art facilities for audio and video production and editing, graphic design, studio recording and more. The building is an engine room for the next generation of media practitioners and thinkers. Read more on our facilities page
