BATH SPA UNIVERSITY / Courses BA / BSC COMBINED AWARD
Publishing
UCAS CODE: See page 83
Publishing is one of the UK’s largest creative industries. It is in the process of adapting its creative strategy and business to the challenges and opportunities that digital technology brings.
You will need to study another subject to study with Publishing Popular combinations include: Business and management NP14 Creative Writing WP84 English Literature PQ43 History VP14 For a full list of courses you can combine with Publishing, see page 83
Cross-fertilization of creative ideas, skills, and industry knowledge between universities and publishing companies has never been so important. The publishing industry needs people who can think creatively across a range of media, platforms, and markets to develop and promote innovative and engaging content. Why choose this course? Publishing involves conceptualising, shaping and producing content for books and magazines (print and digital); multimedia websites, tablets and mobile apps; ebooks and social media. Students learn to wrangle text, image and video; ideas, stories and information into meaningful and engaging forms. This innovative course will add a practical dimension to your study and enhance your employability by helping you develop a raft of transferable skills and a knock-out portfolio. Staff are experienced publishers and continue to practice, enabling continuous course updating and access to industry networks. You can opt to take Publishing as a Major, Joint or Minor subject within a Combined Award. About the course All students take a 40-credit core publishing module in each of the three years. These teach the essentials of contemporary publishing: writing and editing copy; creating professional blogs, websites and integrated social media; researching, developing and making digital publications and 01
presenting the results. Additional modules offer the chance to specialise, deepening your knowledge, and to work on larger personal projects.
Institution code: B20 02
Location: Newton Park campus Length: 3 years full-time; part-time available
Sample modules INCLUDE: Year 1: Introduction to Publishing; Copywriting and Text Editing (core); Digital Natives. Year 2: Contemporary Publishing: The Business of Publishing (core); Writing for New Media. Year 3: Digital Publishing (core); Professional Writing, Food Writing and Editing. Students work on live projects with organisations such as the National Trust and X Media Lab, the international digital think tank, and run the BSU student magazine MILK. You will learn through lectures, collaborative workshops, guided project work, tutorials and software training. The course base, the Publishing Lab, has excellent industry standard facilities including Mac suites with the latest software, and a range of camera equipment, iPads, iPhones and Kindles. Optional Graphics modules are taught at one of our other campuses. We also run industry skills tests (introductory and intermediate levels) in copyediting and InDesign layout software. Careers Publishing skills in editorial, production, marketing and digital, and collaborative working and project management skills are extremely transferable. Graduates will go on to a variety of roles within the publishing
Tuition fee (2013): £9,000 per year (subject to annual inflationary increase) No. Of places : Variable number as part of a Combined Award Assessment: Through coursework. There are no written exams.
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Graduate profiles Alex Goddard, 2009 graduate, Production Controller, Random House. — “I wouldn’t be where I am today without the broad skills and wealth of knowledge I gained and the excellent staff who run it.’
industry, but also into a wide variety of organisations and companies from business and cultural to charities, education and fashion. Graduate Internship Scheme: Parragon Books Bath-based Parragon Books is a world-leading publisher of illustrated non-fiction books across print and digital. Six fully-paid graduate internships across editorial and digital are available for publishing students to apply for.
01 P ublishing students working on the Social Media Experiment at the international X Media Lab digital conference 02 ‘The practical skills I gained on the Publishing course led to a job working on children’s picture books.’ Sarah Morris, Editor, Barefoot Books, Oxford, 2010 graduate 03 Publishing students run the student digital magazine, MILK
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Typical offers: 260–320 UCAS Tariff points
Rebecca Mears, 2010 graduate, Senior Community Manager, Mumsnet. — “Social media networks are massive. In my interview I was able to speak about blogs with a degree of knowledge due to this course.’ Kara Rennie, 2012 graduate — “It was great to go straight into a three-month Editorial Assistant (Cookery) internship at Parragon Books. Now, I’m working in idyllic Dorset setting up a digital media strategy for a school. The Digital Publishing module was invaluable, enabling me to work in digital environments and develop useful contacts.” Nina Camacho, 2012 graduate — “I landed a job at Future Publishing as Production Assistant for Mollie Makes – a magazine I read, love and have wanted to be a part of since it started. The course allows you to select creative projects to gain the experience you need to land that dream job. Very supportive tutors who helped me discover and develop my strengths; three years well spent!”