Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Digital Communication Course content

We provide a range of core practical modules designed to produce leading multimedia journalists capable of working across all digital platforms.

Our journalism subjects include:

• Radio and Television broadcasting
• Writing and publishing for digital media
• Social Media and Society
• Interviewing and Reporting
• Sports Journalism
• Magazine Journalism
• Limerick Voice news website and newspaper production

Our lecturers combine academic expertise with significant professional industry experience in a number of national and international news organisations, including The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, Ireland’s state broadcaster RTE and The Cambodia Daily International. Our adjunct professors include Fergal Keane, BBC Africa Editor. In a special seminar series, editors, correspondents, reporters and other media-interested professionals visit the University of Limerick to talk to journalism students about the media industry and employment opportunities. Our four-year programme includes a six-month work placement opportunity in a national or regional news organisation and an international study abroad placement.

Electives in Journalism and Digital Communication

You will study a core set of journalism modules throughout your 4 years on the course.

You will also have the opportunity to study 2 electives in your first year of the course, and then you will choose 1 of these to continue studying to the end of the course. There is more information on this in the Course Structure tab below. 

The pathways available are listed below. 

• Economics
• English Literature
• History
• Law
• Politics
• Sociology
• French or Japanese or German or Spanish

For more information, visit www.ul.ie/journalism