Art, Design, Media & Music

Multi-Media Journalism at Bournemouth University

Advantages: Best reputation for a journalism course in the UK
Disadvantages: Not for the faint hearted - it's hard work!

I am a current, first-year student at Bournemouth University, on the BA (Hons) Multi-Media Journalism course. I felt that it was about time I told you about the university and the course, as I always have "Journalism student" in my about me section, and often mention the fact that I am studying it here. So without further ado, I shall explain the course. Location of the programme The Multi-Media Journalism course takes place on Bournemouth ...
...House. In the last couple of years, an extension was built on the building, and it now looks very similar to the BBC Television Centre building in terms of style. It has been decorated with commissioned photographs of the local area, as well as clever, artistic images that make you think - for example there is a picture of a bowl of spaghetti letters, and if you look carefully, you can spot some of the names of the courses on offer in the school. ...

Luvlylana 28.01.2009 · Read full review
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Its easy if you know how

Advantages: good department, good equipment, loads of guest lecturers
Disadvantages: Too wide a range of subjects, some evil maths, teaching on a superficial level

I'll start this of by saying that if you have any amount of intelligence or interest in design then this course is so easy it hurt's. When i was on this course i didn't go to one lecture for the last six months and i never went to anything on tuesday mornings for three years due to the cheapness of the alcohol at the student union on monday nights. Despite all this i still have a 2:2 in design and could have probably got a 1st simply by blagging ...
...year. This doesn't mean that this course is of a low quality. Bournemouth has one of the best design departments in the country, especially when it comes to CAD but one of the main problems is that most of the staff may have been designers at one point, but now they appear to be designers who were not good enough to stay in the industry and so became lecturers. The course covers a wide range of subjects including materials, CAD, corporate identity, ...

crustypaul 14.04.2001 · Read full review
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