Journalism, Media etc. in Scotland

Okay, so i'm thinking of a career in the media, with journalism, or something along those lines. Film and photography is also a big interest of mine.
I'm finding it pretty hard to find a course in a well known Scottish University which would kinda tick the boxes for me? Or am i being too fussy?

and, hi, i'm new :biggrin:

and did i hear that Inverness was going to "try" and have its own university or sommin' like that?

Cheers.
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Reply 1

sarahleslie1

Welcome... though you might want to consider leaving now before addiction sets in :smile:

Strathclyde does Journalism, and it's quite well-known; but I'm not sure what other Scottish uni's outside old polytechnics do.

Reply 2

thomasross

I'm in first year at the moment doing "Publishing with Journalism" at RGU at the moment, but I don't think they are running it after this year... They do "Media Studies", "Communication with PR" and "Journalism" though - and I think those are still running. We have been mixed in with Media and Comm with PR for all of our modules so far, and for three/four next semester and have found it quite interesting, though there is more specialisation in later years. As its RGU I think they try to make their course more vocational rather than too theoretical - which I like as you get to actually do the stuff. Its good that its in the Business School too for similar reasons.

If I remember rightly from when I was applying, napier in Edinburgh do a lot of courses along similar lines to these as well.

What's happening with Inverness (or "Universty of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)") is that its a project made up of a whole load of colleges in the Highlands, working towards becoming one multi-campus university spread across. It isn't yet a university, but they do provide "University level education" or degrees, and recently have been granted the ability to issue their own degrees - previously their degrees were issued by Aberdeen, Strathclyde and the Open University. It will probably be quite a number of years yet before they can actually become a university though.

Hope that helps.