Bachelor of Arts - Film Studies and Journalism (Honours)

BA (Hons) Film Studies and Journalism joins critical film study to practical reporting craft: cinema history, theory and industry alongside news writing, feature journalism, media law and ethics, digital publishing and multimedia production, culminating in portfolio work and a research or journalistic project.

The combination is vocationally coherent — cultural journalism requires both the analytical depth to say something worth reading and the professional discipline to file clean copy on deadline — and assessment alternates between academic writing and published-standard journalism produced to real word counts and turnarounds.

The joint structure has a practical advantage worth naming: journalism supplies employable craft with clear entry routes while film studies supplies the specialist knowledge that turns a general reporter into a specialist correspondent, and specialists are paid better and made redundant less. Students should publish continuously across both strands from the first year. Five entry windows are recorded across September and January cycles, unusual flexibility for a joint honours degree, at the standard £16,800 arts-faculty fee, and student media provides the publishing outlet that builds a portfolio from the first term.

Journalism teaching covers the legal and ethical framework practising reporters work within, and students produce for real and simulated outlets, building the clip portfolio that editors ask for; January windows recorded across all cycles give applicants unusual timing flexibility.

Entry roles in entertainment media, content writing and communications pay £19,000–£24,000, with digital publishing hiring more openly than legacy titles. The honours degree carries Graduate Route eligibility for 18 months under post-2026 application rules, and dependants cannot accompany students on taught study.