Thread: Going back to school...

So I'm thinking of doing an MA in multimedia journalism. The course starts next September at Bournemouth University, so I've got time to save up the money I'll need to do it. Here's a description of the course:

Multi-skilling defines this groundbreaking Bournemouth course– the first in the UK to explore the full potential of multi-platform (convergent) news publishing. It is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

When you leave the course, you will be able to cover any news story for the web, for television, and for radio. You can take a story from one medium and transfer it into another – television to radio – radio to online writing. You can adapt and deepen stories, yet work to the sharpest deadline. And you will be able to edit video, audio and text into packages to international broadcast standards.. Employers are hungry for graduates who can adapt.

Graduates from the course go straight into national and local broadcast news, national and local newspapers, national magazines, and often enjoy an accelerated rate of promotion in their chosen profession. They have a wider choice of career.

Live news publishing, broadcast bulletins across the internet, news stories gathered locally and nationally – all go out from the course news website. Students in professional-standard newsrooms take key roles as editors, news editors, convergence editors, and reporters on the course news website.

As publishers and broadcasters consolidate after the explosion of the internet, core skills are more at a premium than ever. The equal mix of broadcasting and online writing in this intensely practical course sharpens the defining elements of cutting-edge journalism. Your work culminates in a multi-media online documentary project covering a current national or international issue in depth. Meanwhile, the rich mixture of international postgraduates and UK students engage with critical research and ethical controversies at the frontiers of global journalism.

Looks pretty awesome, right? What do you guys think, will this set me up with a decent job, or is it a waste of money?

Looks like it's down your alley, at least. You've always been able to take a current event and write it up so that the rest of us can read and understand it. I like reading your take on news articles and all that jazz. I have no idea about your job markets over there. Here in the states, it's a wonderful time to still be in school, waiting out the economy.

Thanks man.

It's better than a print journalism course, anyway. Just try to get some actual related work while doing your MA, so that you don't end up with just a degree and no real-world experience. Journalism, print or online, is really hard to break into and experience helps with that.

Eesh, paying to go to school? Glad I live in Finland. The only thing we need to pay for are our school supplies and books. And yes, that includes universities.

That's what you get for having high taxes.

This means you will complain about the media less?

Not a chance.

And you're not, however much you want to delude yourself, the media's representative on sb.

Well, I suppose you are now.

Probably because it's only one year of tuition and the rent on a house/flat! You don't have to live-in at university in the UK.

Tuition alone is astronomically expensive in America. Housing costs are just an inconvenience by comparison.

Originally Posted by Gosu

Well, I suppose you are now.

You never have been, you aren't, and you never will be, and it's retarded to apply the label to anyone, especially oneself.