入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：Applicants should possess a higher education degree of at least lower second class honours (2:2), or a non-UK qualification recognised by the University as being equivalent to this.
英语要求： IELTS score at least 7.0
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 £14,409.00
课程特征 Course Features：
The programme focuses on the academic study of journalism, but also offers opportunities for the development of professional skills through optional modules in the second semester and through research. The degree provides insights into how journalism is changing in a globalised context, exploring key debates and issues in journalism studies today. The degree also provides training in the use of a range of research skills in journalism studies, to support academic scholarship in their chosen field of journalism studies.
课程内容 Course Content ：
You will study the following areas:
Political Communication
Mediatised Conflicts: The Politics of Conflict Reporting
Putting Research into Practice
Introduction to Journalism Studies
International Communications and Journalism
Core Modules
Mediatised Conflicts: The Politics of Conflict Reporting
Introduction to Journalism Studies
International Communication and Journalism
Putting Research into Practice
Political Communications
Optional modules include:
Media Law; New Media & Politics; Reporting Business, Finance & Economics; Insurgency into the 21st Century; Global Crisis Reporting; In the Editor’s Chair, International Relations for Journalists; Reporting Health and Science; Development Communications.
Dissertation
The MA Journalism Studies gives students the opportunity to conduct their own original research, as it requires completion of an academic dissertation of between 15 20,000 words. Students will plan their dissertation and develop a research proposal during a first-semester research retreat in rural Wales. Individual dissertation supervisors will be allocated after this retreat. Students will also develop their research skills through the core module, Putting Research into Practice, and through regular meetings with their dissertation supervisor.