COURSE: BA IN LANGUAGES (JOURNALISM)

This package is aimed at those interested in a career in journalism or the media. The knowledge base provides a broad intellectual, cultural, linguistic and literary context for this career field, as well as applied technical and skills training.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• Information literacy


• History


• Journalism


• Language, culture and communication


• Sociology

Second year subjects:

• Journalism


• Language, culture and communication


• Media law


• Drama (radio)

Third year subjects:

• English


• Journalism


• Information science


• Editing

Careers: translator, lexicographer, linguist, educator, journalist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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