BA (Hons) Writing for Media

Strong written-communication and technical skills are much in demand across the fast-evolving creative industries. This course gives you this winning combination of skills, covering image, sound and multimedia, and opening up a wide choice of career paths.

This wide-ranging course offers you the opportunity to develop and create content across a range of genres and formats for diverse media including radio, television, digital and print. It prepares you to enter a range of creative-led businesses from small start-ups requiring agile and flexible workers to larger companies which communicate to their audiences through a range of platforms.

Units include practice in writing scripts, journalism for both television and online, and content for radio as well as developing your technical skills in audio and video. You also study units focusing on issues of intellectual property, publishing and new directions such as trans-media storytelling.