Bachelor of Arts - English Language and Journalism (Honours)

BA (Hons) English Language and Journalism joins linguistic analysis to professional reporting craft: grammar, style and discourse analysis alongside news writing, media law and ethics, multimedia production and the deadline discipline of newsroom work.

The pairing is vocationally shrewd because journalism’s least-discussed skill is language accuracy under time pressure — headline writing, house style, legally safe phrasing — and language-trained journalists make fewer of the errors that cost publications money and credibility.

At £13,750 the course is markedly cheaper than DMU’s literature-based journalism pairings while teaching the same practical journalism modules, an anomaly preserved from the source and worth checking at offer stage. Five separate intakes appear in the portal export, covering September and January across the listed cycles.

Practical counselling for this route should stress output over theory: journalism recruitment operates on published clips, and the students who write for campus and community outlets from the first term arrive at graduation with a portfolio their classmates spend a further year assembling. Shorthand practice deserves the same early start, since it remains a genuine hiring criterion at many British newsrooms and takes months of daily drilling to become useful. Communications and public relations should also be presented honestly as the destination absorbing most journalism-trained graduates, typically at higher starting salaries than newsroom roles, and the media-law grounding taught here is precisely what those employers value.

Newsroom entry pays £19,000–£23,000 while communications and PR roles start higher and hire more of these graduates in practice. Completion of the honours degree confers Graduate Route rights for 18 months under post-2026 application rules, with dependants excluded throughout taught study.