Liberal Arts Journalism BA Hons with Integrated Foundation

A liberal arts degree gives you the freedom to focus on the subjects that most interest you. You’ll concentrate on a major area of study while maintaining a breadth of learning spanning the arts, humanities and social sciences.  

Liberal Arts with Integrated Foundation incorporates an extra year of study to prepare you for your undergraduate degree. Once you have completed the foundation year, you will progress directly on to the three-year BA (Hons) Liberal Arts (Journalism) degree.

The Journalism Major

The Journalism Major combines theory with practice to prepare you to successfully work in today’s multi-platform, globalised 24/7 media industry.  

Hands-on experience in a newsroom environment will develop your reporting and production skills on multiple platforms. This broad approach will give you the opportunity to investigate real life issues and train you to tell stories with skill and passion.  

You will be expected to keep up with current industry debates and also learn how journalism relates to other media activities such as public relations, marketing and advertising.  

Elective modules will help you understand the breadth of this discipline and also give you a broad skillset.   

Options to learn a language and study abroad at one of our international partners will help expand your learning and global outlook.   

This Major will train you into a multi-skilled, multimedia professional, ready for a career in journalism and across the media and communication industries.

Minimum entry requirements for Level 3 students

One of the following qualifications: 

• 5 GCSEs at grade A-C or equivalent
• US High School Diploma with a minimum GPA of 2.5 
• Equivalent qualifications as deemed acceptable by the University

English Language requirements

We require proof of English Proficiency. For example, we ask for:

• IELTS: Overall score of 5.5, with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component
• GCSE/IGCSE English, grade C / 4 (for IGCSE certificates, please provide the Supplementary Certifying Statement with the breakdown of component grades).

You’ll graduate with a wide range of skills valuable in any workplace, including critical thinking, cross-cultural understanding, communication, teamwork and problem-solving – ready to become an engaged, thoughtful and well-informed global leader.  

Industry-active academics and our Graduate Outcomes Team can help to connect you to world-renowned companies, where you’ll build workplace skills and connections you’ll lean on throughout your whole career. 

Liberal Arts alumni have a high rate of employment and occupy various high-profile positions across academia, entrepreneurship, finance, politics, law, management, the arts, marketing, PR, psychology and consultancy. 

Many Liberal Arts graduates also pursue postgraduate study at Regent’s, launch successful enterprises and expand existing family businesses, while making the most of Regent’s lifelong career support and innovative entrepreneurial space.