Course units
We are committed to ensuring that your skills are set within an ethical framework and are embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into this course.
Multiplatform Journalism (20 credits)
This unit will introduce you to the core practical journalism skills of research, interviewing, reporting and pitching, along with basic legal principles.
You’ll also develop skills in idea generation and development, primary and secondary research, understanding audiences and their interests through data and analytics, narrative, editing, and promoting work on social media. Throughout this unit, you’ll produce a portfolio of journalistic work for submission.
Critical Perspectives: Audio and Video Journalism (20 credits)
You’ll explore ethical, theoretical and contextual issues relating to Audio and Video Journalism exploring a dynamic area of research into podcasting, audio narration, the aesthetics of radio, short form video use in journalism (explainers, journalism for TikTok and other social media platforms), VR and its use in journalism, among others.
Short-form Video (20 credits)
In this unit you'll develop in-demand skills in mobile video journalism, learning how to shoot, edit and embed eye-catching short-form video for social media to build engagement with online audiences.
Audio and Video Journalism Practice (20 credits)
You’ll develop skills in a range of journalistic forms relating to Audio and Video Journalism, focusing on primary and secondary research, building narratives and promoting your work on social media. Building skills in longer-form content creation in audio and video, you'll learn how to produce engaging podcasts from first idea to final production using our specialist suite of studios, while video teaching will move from mobile to digital cameras and green-screen studio production. You'll develop location shooting, creative production and editing skills, ultimately crafting your own video documentary feature.
Collaborative Unit (20 credits)
This unit is designed to enable you to identify, form and develop collaborative working relationships with a range of potential partners. These could include other postgraduate students at LCC or UAL; postgraduate students at other Higher Education institutions; or external organisations such as cultural or community groups, NGOs, businesses or charities.
The nature of this collaboration will involve working on a project with outcomes agreed by your tutors, and will take the form of group work that can happen within the College or digitally/remotely.
Audience, Editing and Platform Management (20 credits)
In this unit, you’ll develop skills in multimedia platform management through taught sessions from staff and industry professionals, and by working in one or more editorial roles on the Artefact multimedia brand which includes a print magazine, a regularly updated live website, and audio, video and social media channels.
You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your chosen specialism through your practice.
Final Major Project (60 credits)
You’ll put the skills and knowledge developed during the course into action.
In the first part of the unit, you’ll develop ideas for your personal project and submit a written proposal for an individual journalistic product or portfolio in a medium or media of your choice that’s also relevant to your specialism. You’ll also produce a reflective report looking at your development as a journalist and the direction for your future career.
In the second part of the unit, you’ll work with a supervisor to produce the project, which will be supported and evidenced by a reflective document.
