If you love music and want the knowledge, understanding, skills and flexibility to be able to communicate that passion as a career, our Music Journalism and Broadcasting degree is for you. The course will prepare you for a career with in the ever-growing number of niche music magazines, radio stations, music supplements in newspapers and music websites featuring audio and video. The course is delivered by experienced practitioners and academics and is structured around lectures, seminars, practical workshops and independent study. You'll have access to industry-standard technical facilities for researching and writing, recording and editing for radio, TV, websites and print publications. You'll focus on developing your ability to produce text, audio and video content to professional standards - with an emphasis on real-world publication and transmission. A fully assessed work placement in your second year further reinforces the real-world emphasis of the course. You'll also create, design and present your own show. Aired on our student radio station - and transmitted online both inside and outside the university - this will be assessed by radio industry professionals. The course will provide you with a full set of modern multi-media skills, including use of social media. It also gives you the flexibility to specialise in particular areas, such as radio, video/TV, online, writing, PR, academic study and music station management. You'll be assessed via a mixture of practical journalism, essays, exams, class tests, reports and presentations and a self-managed major project or academic dissertation. And you'll have the opportunity to sit the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) exams.

The music journalism and broadcasting award is designed to enable students to emerge with a wide range of career options by providing: ' employability skills for work in journalism and broadcasting and transferable skills for employment generally ' a creative and critical knowledge and understanding of music journalism and broadcasting through theoretical and practical elements of study ' a range of journalism and broadcast production skills to produce journalism and broadcast material to trade standards ' a flexible balance of communication skills, practical, intellectual and personal, to enable further study/training and entry to a wide range of employment in music journalism and broadcasting, allied trades such as PR and other careers in which communication is a prized key asset.