Program Description

Why you should study this course

We help you to acquire the essential knowledge and practical skills needed for a successful automotive journalism career.

• You will get used to working with multiple forms of media – generating traditional print, audio and video content, all the while embracing new technologies and creating parallel digital content, including social media, blogs and web-based content.
• You will have access to our newsrooms equipped with industry-standard media production software, and professional equipment from our dedicated Media Loan Shop. Our media facilities include professional-standard radio studios and a state-of-the-art specialist TV studio, The Tank4.
• Our links with the automotive media and motor industries have helped students to secure work placements and internships for students with Autocar, Top Gear, Ferrari, EVO, Autosport and many more2. One student worked at Ferrari’s UK press office to support a prestigious annual event held at Silverstone, including production of the event programme. Others have worked with automotive websites on coverage of motor shows or helped out on cover photo shoots for car magazines.
• Graduates have secured jobs with Autocar, Autocar India, Auto Express, BBC Top Gear, Pistonheads, CAR Magazine, Car Throttle, What Car? and many other automotive media. Others have gone into automotive PR with brands like Honda, Hyundai, Volkswagen and SEAT, and with specialist automotive PR agencies.

On successful completion of this course, you should know how to:

• Create automotive content to professional standards, for digital, broadcast, print or social media.
• Understand how automotive journalism works and how it relates to the automotive industry.

You should be able to:

• Apply a wide range of journalism and communication skills and knowledge to the production of automotive content to professional standards.
• Work creatively, sustainably and independently within professional situations, employing a range of journalism strategies and techniques.
• Critically evaluate and analyse the broad range of factors that impinge upon professional and creative activities within automotive journalism and the broader communications industry.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and successfully engage with a range of audiences, genres and media platforms within automotive journalism.
• Feel prepared when applying for job roles within automotive media.

The Automotive Journalism MA prepares you for work as an automotive journalist with consumer or business-to-business media or as a content creator for automotive marketing, social media and public relations. Coursework assignments and deadlines are designed to mirror industry practice as far as possible to equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to work in a professional multi-platform environment. This course is designed to prepare you for specialist automotive journalism roles with consumer and business-to-business automotive websites, or as a content creator in automotive marketing and public relations.

Admission Requirements

• Indian Students-Students must achieve 60% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree or 55% in a 4 Year.Undergraduate Degree Students from the following Universities will be considered with 55% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree (unless applying for Health and Life Science courses): Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (Madras), Anna, Amity, Andhra Pradesh, Aligarh Muslim, Pune, Bangalore and JNTU.
• Arab Students-Students who hold a Bachelor’s Degree should have an average grade of 60% or above. Students who have an average grade of 70% or CGPA of 2.5 out of 4 for the Postgraduate Research programmes with a satisfactory research proposal.

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	6

Remarks:

 Indian Students IELTS Waiver::- 65% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand)