On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• JOU4000 - Programme Level Assessment

  Students will work in teams to produce content for the LTjournalism website, as a three-week live production exercise. It is expected that students will produce content demonstrating their learning outcomes in their programme, eg sports journalists will produce sports content. It is hoped to run a live newsroom throughout the three weeks, with tutors and an experienced journalist visiting lecturer to act as editors for the student reporters. There will be rolling deadlines so each team has to produce content throughout each week.

• JOU4412 - Professional Development and Placement

  This module supports students in understanding the different opportunities open to them in the workplace and the skills employers are looking for and helps them develop the employability skills required in the workplace. At the end of this module students will take part in an intensive two-week professional skills preparation block before undertaking an industry placement. As part of this module, students will also embark on intensive training in fast note taking using the journalism industry standard shorthand, Teeline.

• JOU4424 - Practical Journalism 1

  Students will learn how to find, research and write news stories in an appropriate style for different platforms. They will learn and practise interviewing skills. The sessions will be partly classroom-based in workshops but will include a lot of live reporting, and students will build a portfolio covering key skills. This module includes teamwork in the TV studio, video journalism, radio and digital skills.

• JOU4912 - Journalism in Society

  This module will look at the purpose of journalism, how it developed, and journalistic reporting in the present day, focussing on newspapers, and some of the issues and debates in this sector. As part of this, students will be required to learn about the history of the press and freedom of the press from the 17th century to the development of new technology in the present day, including multi-platform delivery and the use of user-generated content, and the subsequent implications for producers and consumers of news. It will look at the role which journalism plays in wider society. The module will go on to examine different types of journalism and ethical and other issues around the reporting and coverage of a range of specialisms, such as sport, science and/or crime reporting.

• JOU4942 - Media Matters

  Media Matters is an introduction to media law and covers the basics of the legal system, contempt and reporting restrictions as they affect sexual offences and crimes involving juveniles. A key part of the module includes visits to crown and magistrates' court to see how such laws are applied in practice. The module also covers regulation as it affects the print and broadcast media. Finally, it includes a brief introduction to defamation (a topic which is covered in more depth in levels 5 and 6).

• JOU4992 - Ethics and Society

  The module aims overall to introduce students to the social justice mission of Leeds Trinity University and invites them to consider a range of contemporary social issues, as well as their own personal and academic development. The module will help students to engage with a broad range of ethical topics and perspectives that are relevant to their specific programme. It will help students transition in to higher education and introduce the learning and teaching approaches at Leeds Trinity, allowing students to integrate their own learning from personal experience with an ability to engage in an empathic, ethical and compassionate way with the wider world. Core topics may include: -The Leeds Trinity University's mission -Diversity -Social justice -The Environment -Ethical leadership -Student led topics related to social justice and ethics. As it is a University wide module, we will be using a shared repository of materials which may be helpful to staff teams.

On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• JOU5052 - Radio and Podcast for Journalists

  This module provides an understanding of radio and its current context. It examines the different marketplaces / audiences relevant to radio and provides tuition in interview skills, writing for radio and the skills needs to compile, write and deliver a news bulletin.

• JOU5322 - Professional Development for Broadcast Journalism

  1.A professional development programme with special reference to employability in journalism and related sectors. The programme will comprise: - reflection on the nature of work and ethical issues related to it; - development of employability skills, including digital skills; - development of group work and team building; - interviews with Placement Tutor. 2. The Law element in the PDPM module will build on and enhance the study of Law and Regulation from Level 4, and will normally include topics such as reporting restrictions, contempt of court and defamation. It will also include a basic introduction to Public Affairs (central and local government, the monarchy and European Union). 3. An in-house live broadcasting period at the beginning of Semester 2, in both radio and television - outward facing, and using all the industry conventions associated with reporting, production and broadcasting. 4. Critical reflection and evaluation of this period of news days. 5. An element on Holding Power to Account, which will ensure students have a basic knowledge of the working of Public Affairs (government as it affects journalists). This includes a visit to observe a council meeting.

• JOU5404 - Practical Journalism 2: Newswriting

  Students will examine key areas of news reporting through formative and summative practical exercises in class, with articles published online. Includes use of authoritative sources, research, interview and writing skills. Students have free rein over geographical area and subject matter covered. In Semester 1 students take part in informal peer assessment and feedback exercises. In Semester 2 students are introduced to content management system/s and are required to create and display multi-media content, e.g. headlines, text, images, captions, hyperlinks and video, and promote their work via social media.

• JOU5912 - Journalism in Context

  Building on knowledge and understanding of the development of journalism and contemporary debates and issues in journalism studied at L4 in Journalism in Society, this module examines journalism studies in more depth and detail, introducing students to important theories and concepts in journalism studies about how news is constructed and presented, the wider, often less visible, influences on journalism (for example, structural or ideological), and the subsequent effects on the news and journalism that audiences receive. As part of this, the module will look at seminal studies and abstract concepts in the field, for example, primary definition, moral panics, and the propaganda model. In addition, students are also introduced to different approaches to carrying out media research and to apply their acquired knowledge of both theory and research techniques in an appropriate and relevant way to a research proposal, which will be used as the basis for a research project at L6 or the project for the Professional Learning Through Work module.

• JOU5972 - Television News for Journalists

  The module runs over two semesters. In the first semester, students will be introduced to digital camera and editing equipment of industry standard. They will learn key news writing and production skills. In the second semester, they will move on to produce a feature package.

On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• JOU6174 - Digital Media Portfolio

  This module allows students to pursue an individual journalism project which brings together the skills they have developed during the course of their studies, with particular emphasis on writing video and audio skills but also allowing students to use photographic skills to pull together a project which requires them to demonstrate an ability to identify a niche audience, and plan and produce suitable content for multi-platform delivery. Students will have the opportunity to take forward the audio and visual skills acquired in levels 4 and 5 and to particularly develop skills in relation to producing stories for an on-line audience. Students will demonstrate their employability skills and professional readiness by preparing a professional portfolio and undertaking a mock job interview.

• JOU6214 - Advanced Broadcast Journalism

  This module expands on skills learned in the Level 5 Broadcast Journalism module, and pulls in other relevant journalism skills from the two previous years overall. It stretches students to extend their news production skills and journalistic skills by engaging with the production of television and radio news artefacts and programmes. The module will begin with a three week industry placement in the early part of Semester 1. This placement will enable students to apply their learning from Levels 4 and 5 in the workplace, and students will be closely monitored throughout the attachment period to ensure that they use the opportunities offered to maximum advantage. To this end students will be required to maintain an attachment log in which they record their daily activity and reflect on their experience. In television, students will go on to work toward longer-form television pieces which combine their news production skills learned in level 5 semester 1 with their feature news production skills learned in level 5 semester 2 and use them to produce a television news and current affairs programme which extends their news bulletin production skills and brings in more considered news features and programme production skills. In radio, students will develop their production skills to produce longer form programme packages and, working as a team, a radio sequence programme (or programmes) in which each team member has a clearly identifiable contribution. This will require students to understand the conventions of packages, voice pieces, bulletins and/or location reports and similar devices in styles suitable for given audiences. Students must also apply an advanced understanding of the requirements, conventions and regulatory regimes applicable to different broadcasters and content providers. During the module, students will take part in 18 live news days - 2 radio planning days and 1 production day in Semester 1, 5 multimedia days during Journalism Week and 10 TV newsdays (5 planning and 5 production) in Semester 2. These will be University-based and linked to either assessment production or live events. Broadcast Journalism students will be given voice coaching in a mixture of group and individual sessions.

• JOU6352 - Professional Learning Through Work

  This module enables students to develop and negotiate learning outcomes and assessment modes that provide the flexibility for them to apply theoretical understanding and practical work based development to a chosen context. This could include a work based project or intervention or an alternative professional development project within their work setting. Students will be expected to negotiate a project with their employer or prior placement provider organisation that meets the needs of both the employer and Leeds Trinity University

• JOU6522 - Public Affairs

  Content for this module follows the NCTJ Diploma syllabus for Essential Public Affairs. Public Affairs examines the structure, finance operation and responsibilities of local and central government, as well as European government and looks at constitution in the UK, the monarchy and issues of devolution. It covers the electoral system in the UK, discusses how governments and local authorities are held to account and helps develop an understanding of how to access information from public bodies. It also looks at the workings of key frontline services, namely the NHS, education, social services, planning and environmental bodies, highways, transport and the emergency services. Throughout the module, you are encouraged to develop an interest in public affairs, identify issues of interest to news audiences and understand how to translate those issues into a journalistic format.

• JOU6902 - Law for Journalists

  TThe main principles of English law affecting the media, including the laws pertaining to contempt, copyright, defamation, privacy, human rights, court reporting, access to information and terrorism. The module will cover key legal areas which crop up in day-to-day reporting and also reflect changes in legislation / case law which impact on journalists.

• JOU6912 - Journalism Research Project

  This module will require students to utilise the research methods they have been taught at Level 5 and apply them to a research project in a chosen specialist area relevant to journalism. It follows directly on from Level 5 Journalism in Context and the research proposal which students submit at the end of their second year. In the Journalism Research Project module, students develop their proposal into a full piece of research, delivered through a final project report. The module includes initial refresher sessions as students consider what has changed with regard to their proposals since submission in Level 5. This will be followed by guidance on how to structure the project. Thereafter students will work independently to produce a research project, through supervision.

• MFC6142 - Advanced Documentary Production for Journalists

  In this module, students will have an opportunity to build on the editorial and technical skills learned on previous modules, in order to devise, research and produce a ten-minute documentary film, for their career portfolio. Sessions will provide a theoretical understanding of the nature and role of documentaries and an insight into the impact they can have, as well as practical aspects of contemporary documentary production - such as devising and researching programme ideas, finding key contributors the preparation and execution of single-camera location filming and story-telling in the editing process. It will culminate in an intensive period of self-directed team-based production, during which students will work in teams with students from the MFC 6044 module, to create a ten-minute documentary film to a professional quality (together with a 'legal binder' of industry-standard production documents). They will also supply an individual critical analysis of the finished film, their individual role in it, what they learned and how they would improve their performance in the future.