One-Year Bachelor of Journalism

From your first class
to job-ready in nine months

Building on your existing undergraduate degree in any field, you will learn to think critically about the world around you—and find, verify and communicate accurate  information under tight deadlines. Working with state-of-the-art equipment, you will gather top-quality audio, video and photos, and write short- and long-form stories. You will learn how to do deep research, explore public records and penetrate secretive institutions.

You will learn about journalism ethical practices and legal issues, and keep up with rapid technological and practical changes in a digital-first world. You will also work with professors enriched by long journalism careers.

In our intensive, hands-on program, your work will be published on the award-winning news site, The Signal, providing residents of Halifax with an important source of local news as you learn. We celebrate the best work in the school with our annual journalism awards program. Along the way, you’ll build a portfolio of original work to show prospective employers.

The heart of the BJ program is the workshops, intensive six-week courses that function like real-world workplaces. You’ll learn everything from daily news reporting to video documentary and podcast production to investigative journalism.*

You’ll finish by putting your skills to work during an internship placement which for some of our students leads directly to a job.

It’s an intense and rewarding nine months.

BJ graduates go on to work in newsrooms, communications, government, private and non-profit enterprises and many other organizations that need to gather and make sense of complex information and then communicate it clearly.

*workshop offerings may vary year to year.