Magazine Journalism MA

Master

In Surrey

£ 8,185 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Surrey

  • Duration

    2 Years

You will be taught through a combination of lectures and seminars and practical workshops focusing on hands-on activities, such as writing, interviewing, subediting, magazine production, blogging, and writing and uploading copy for the web. In collaboration with other students, you will produce a magazine (print and online), and will undertake at least one placement on a published title.

You will also have the opportunity to study feature writing, design and production, journalism practices and the business of magazines. Finally, you will carry out a 12–15,000-word dissertation or a related practical project.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Surrey
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Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 7LB

Start date

On request

About this course

Our Magazine Journalism MA prepares you to work in the magazine industry. It gets you ready for anything you might come across: from writing features for a women's weekly or putting together a news story for a trade publication to making a video or building a brand. It offers detailed, hands-on grounding in core journalistic skills, including feature writing, news gathering and writing, design, production and media law. Context is provided through the study of the business of magazines, ethics and journalistic practices. You can choose to study Teeline Shorthand as an optional extra.

a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or equivalent in an essay-writing subject, demonstrating high standards of literacy; and/or
evidence of substantial and demonstrable professional commitment to journalism.

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Subjects

  • Magazine Journalism
  • Feature Writing
  • Writing
  • Production
  • Content and Context
  • Creating Magazines
  • Journalism
  • Journalism Dissertation
  • Journalism Project
  • Law

Course programme

Course structure

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.

Example core modules
  • Creating Magazines: Content and Context
  • Feature Writing
  • Journalism in Context: Law, Ethics and the Industry
  • MA Journalism Dissertation
  • Practical Journalism Project
Optional modules
  • Shorthand (Postgraduate)
  • Specialist Journalism: Business
  • Specialist Journalism: Fashion
  • Specialist Journalism: Sport

Additional information

Overseas Fee (not EU) 2019/20 -:  MA full time £14,500 MA part time £7,975

Magazine Journalism MA

£ 8,185 VAT inc.