If you have the potential to study at degree level, but you don’t meet the entry requirements, a foundation year can bridge the gap – laying the groundwork for entry into Year 1.

The units you’ll study are designed to build your confidence and bring you up to speed for the rest of your chosen degree. So, as well as the Academic Practice units, which help develop your study skills for learning at the degree-level, you’ll also study a selection of humanities units.

Once you have successfully passed your foundation year you will progress directly into Year 1 of your linked honours degree. This programme leads to the award of BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism.

The rapidly changing digital media and creative industries offer career opportunities in an extremely wide range of sectors including print journalism, digital publishing and editing, broadcasting, researching, media development, freelance writing, specialist journalism, working for news agencies, public relations departments and public sector press departments.

Previous graduates from our Information and Communications courses have been employed by new media companies not only across the North West, but also nationally.

There is also the opportunity to engage in further study and professional training, for example some of our graduates go on to study MA Multimedia Journalism at postgraduate level where you'll be taught by industry experts, with the choice to specialise and graduate with a bracketed degree title in one of the following areas: Data, Magazine & Longform, International or Broadcast.