BA (Hons) History and Journalism
Bachelor's degree
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
In your first year, you’ll learn the foundations of Journalism and History. You can explore faith, magic and medicine and campaigns for freedom and equality. You’ll learn essential journalistic skills, learn about the media industry and think about the importance of behaving ethically.
In your second year, you’ll study news, features and radio in more depth alongside the history of journalism. You’ll be able to choose all your History modules. These include family life in the 18th century, crime and society in the 16th century and British imperialism. It’s totally up to you.
Work placement/study abroad option: Between your second and final year, you’ll have the option to study abroad or do a work placement for up to a year. Not only will this give you an amazing experience to talk about but will also give your CV a boost. If you’d rather go straight to your final year, that’s absolutely fine too. You’ll decide in your second year with us, so there is still plenty of time to think about this.
In your final year, you’ll do a final year History project known as a dissertation. You’ll do your own research on a topic of your choosing. You can even do an oral history project if you prefer this – a unique opportunity to combine your Journalism and History knowledge. For Journalism, you can specialise in online Journalism, global news reporting or make your own Journalism portfolio. This will give you the chance to gain work experience in a real news setting, such as a newspaper, magazine or newsroom.
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About this course
Ever wondered how past events shape the current world? You’ll learn how the past affects today’s world, how people learn (or don’t learn) from these events. You’ll see patterns and parallels between the past and present. You’ll critically analyse how events are told by different people.
The famous war reporter, Kate Adie, described journalism as “a ringside seat at history” and by studying both subjects together you’ll get the chance to think both about how past events were covered and how current news stories and features can help us understand both past and present better. You’ll start to learn to write and broadcast using journalism conventions while building confidence and communication skills through learning to write articles, blogs and broadcast. You’ll even take a module looking at some of the journalistic stories that have changed History alongside learning to be critical of what you read and how to avoid disseminating or being taken in by fake news.
The University uses a variety of teaching methods. For Journalism and History, you'll have interactive workshops with the occasional lecture. This course is about much more than sitting in a classroom. It’s about doing practical work to get you ready for a career, with employability skills built into all modules. It’s no wonder that 96.5%* of the University’s students are in work or further studies within six months of graduating. History and Journalism graduates have in the past gone into areas such as journalism, marketing, PR and the civil service.
UCAS points 104
A Level BCC
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Subjects
- Magic
- Online Journalism
- Industry
- Media
- Journalism Skills
- Radio
- Global
- Project
Course programme
Degree programmes are structured into levels, 4, 5 and 6. These correspond to your first, second and third/final year of study. Below you can see what modules you’ll be studying in each.
Level 4
Module
- Introduction to Media Communications
- Introduction to Journalism
- Journalism, Law and Ethics
- Global Media and Society
- Belief and Disbelief: Faith, Magic and Medicine, 1500 - 1800
- The Fight for Rights: Freedom and Oppression, 1790s-1990s
- Historians' Toolkit
- Africa and the World, 1450-1850
- Cashing In: Traders and Consumers, 1600 - 2001
- Introduction to Public History
- The Heritage Industry in Britain
- Leisure and Lifestyle: 20th Century American Music, Sport and Entertainment
Module
- Graduate Skills
- Journalism Skills: Features
- Journalism Skills: News
- USA 1861 to 1969: From Civil War to Civil Rights A
- Radio Journalism
- Social Media
- Hearth & Heart: Family Life in the Long Eighteenth-Century
- Propaganda in Twentieth-Century War and Politics
- Nation & Identity: Newly Independent States in Interwar Europe, 1918-1939
- Making a Historical Documentary
- Making Histories: Public History Work Experience
- Postcards from the Empire: Experiences of British Imperialism
- Maladies and Medicine in Early Modern Europe
- Crime and Society in England, 1550-1750
- The Age of the Cold War, 1945-1991
Module
- Online Journalism
- Journalism Skills Portfolio
- International Politics and Reporting Global News
Additional information
EU Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
BA (Hons) History and Journalism