BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism with Foundation Year

Module: 3HU005

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to the concept of multiculturalism and national identity. It uses texts from a range of humanities based sources but focuses on the philosophical concepts of self and other and traces media reactions to the notion of multiculturalism and identity in the UK, especially in the contemporary era.

Module: 3GK012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.

Module: 3GK013

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.

Module: 3GK014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.

Module: 4MZ026

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module provides you with an introduction to some of the key concepts and debates in the study of journalism. The module explores the current topics that affect how our ever-changing media industries operate and will familiarize you with the key critical theories and theorists and the main strands of thought that articulate the academic study of journalism and that explain the on-going transformations of its practices, organizations, storytelling forms and news agendas, adoption of new technologies, news values and regulatory and legal frameworks. This module also supports you in developing academic skills that will underpin your work throughout the BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism programme.

Module: 4MZ024

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to the required knowledge and skills for identifying, gathering, covering and writing news for print, online and broadcast news media outlets. A range of activities will be undertaken which will enable you to examine and demonstrate an initial understanding news structure as well as key drivers for news production.

Module: 4MZ030

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces students to concepts and ideas about public affairs and their daily coverage by news media in the UK. The modules discuss topics such as Parliament, elections and public sector and the way in which journalist must cover those following legal and political frameworks. A range of activities will be undertaken, which will enable students to demonstrate an initial understanding of how the practice of journalism shapes and impacts on the way in which the public sector is reported.

Module: 4MZ023

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will give you a level of understanding of radio journalism as well as the need for journalists to be multi­skilled practitioners in the news radio landscape, where news media platforms has convergent into one main digital and online medium. It aims to provide you with a clear understanding of the working practices brought about by the proliferation of news radio forms, genres and digital technologies.

Module: 4FI006

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to introduce you to a variety of factual genres encompassing national and trans-national perspectives. As hybridity is seen now as an essential characteristic of factuality, this module analyses the boundaries between fact and fiction in various popular factual formats and examines a variety of critical approaches and perspectives by scholars and practitioners of film and media in relation to the production of documentary and reality TV.

Module: 4MZ027

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This hands-on module introduces you to the basic stages of TV news production, including basic techniques of news gathering and interviewing, ability to spot a story, techniques of knowing who to ask, what to ask, how to ask, where to find out, and how to find out, speed, accuracy, filming and editing techniques, etc. The module aims to develop the editorial skills required to produce different news formats (underlays, upsounds, packages), from the research brief to the final output. Every week you will use broadcast standard recording equipment to produce short news items on relevant local issues. The module also develops writing techniques, in particular styles for TV news and scripts, getting the facts right, getting the right angle, meeting deadlines and adhering to Media Law, and presenting news techniques, accents and diction, posture, breathing, gesture, etc.

Module: 5FI008

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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