Journalism (International) For Media Professionals - MA - Full-time Distance Learning

This cutting-edge course has been designed to reflect current developments in the media industry worldwide. It is intended to help journalists, communications and media professionals break into new areas of practice or enhance their global mobility and career progression. You will join a global community of media professionals reflecting on your current practice and expanding the scope of your professional expertise. The course will build on your personal experience to directly inform and develop your daily practice with assignments to suit your individual career goals.

If you are a journalist or work in the communications and media sector, MA International Journalism for Media Professionals is specifically designed to help you enhance your global mobility, progress up the career ladder and move into new domains of professional practice. On this course you will join a community of media professionals around the globe in reflecting on your current practice and in expanding the scope of your professional expertise. The flexible delivery of this unique curriculum will enable you to continue to work as you study. One intensive on-campus residential week in Scotland’s thriving capital is combined with distance learning in virtual class- and newsrooms featuring the latest technology. Learning activities will build on your experience, and directly inform and develop your daily practice. Assignments will be tailored to suit your individual development goals. Tutors and mentors with substantial industry experience will support you in developing leadership attributes as well as the ability to apply advanced journalistic skills across a wide range of platforms, including television, radio, online, print and social media. Project work will strengthen your ability to work across geographical and cultural boundaries and help you acquire new areas of specialist expertise. You will explore innovative forms of media practice in a rapidly evolving global industry and engage with a variety of approaches to developing creative leadership and entrepreneurship. Your learning will be underpinned by modern research into global journalism and media practice. You will develop the ability to analyse the industry with academic rigour and appraise political, economic, regulatory and cultural influences in different global regions. This course will develop your ability to: practice advanced journalistic skills across a wide range of media platforms expand the scope of your professional expertise into new specialist domains engage in cross-culturally suitable international professional practice explore creative forms of media practice in a rapidly evolving global industry exercise creative leadership, thought leadership and entrepreneurship apply rigorous academic analysis and informed judgement to your practice establish strategies to progress your career and network on a global scale strengthen transferable skills, including problem solving, planning, team work, time management, cross-cultural interaction and use of social media View Full Screen

What's involved You’ll learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, studio and newsroom sessions and through independent study. Learning will take place during one on-campus residential week as well as in an international virtual learning environment. If studied on a fulltime basis, this course can be completed within an academic year. You have the opportunity to engage in part-time studies, in which case the duration of studies should not exceed twelve trimesters. Part-time students will be guided by a tutor to put together an individualised programme of study. To find out more about part-time possibilities, please contact Natalie Fournier. Trimester 1 Cross-Platform Journalism and Media Practice, Global Current Affairs across Cultures, Leadership & Entrepreneurship in the Media. Trimester 2 Specialist Journalism (choose two of the following options): Reporting Global Finances, Investigative Journalism, Documentary Film Production. Professional Industry Placement. Trimester 3 Production Dissertation. For more detailed information about the course, please contact Natalie Fournier. For more detailed information about journalism studies at Edinburgh Napier University, including student testimonials and photos of students in action, visit www.edinburghnapierjournalism.com.

Requirements at a glanceEntry to the courseYou need an Honours degree, and you need to have worked for a minimum of one year as a journalist, media practitioner, communications specialist or information officer.Instead of an Honours degree, you may have a degree-equivalent qualification. Substantial experience gained in the journalism, communications and media industries can be counted in place of an Honours degree.Every applicant will be asked to provide evidence of industry experience as well as of suitability for the degree, in form of a portfolio of copy, or a showreel.Fees TableFees 2012/132013/14 Home/EU£570£570per 20cr PC/PDHome/EU£350£35060cr DissertationOverseas£1,550£1,614per 20cr PC/PDOverseas£1,050£1,08060cr Dissertation Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.