Media Studies and Journalism
Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied as a single subject or in combination with another programme.
Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.
What will you learn?
The Media Studies and Journalism study program offers a comprehensive study that is focused symmetrically on theoretical and analytical knowledge, critical-reflective skills and creative skills. The study not only prepares students for journalistic work but also provides them with the broadest theoretical and methodological background necessary for their further follow-up in M.A. studies. Two features of the curriculum are unique: 1) the updated curriculum corresponding to the ever-accelerating transformation of the journalistic profession and 2) a strong emphasis on the systematic skill training of students. Students complete basic theoretical subjects focused on communication, media and journalistic theory, social science methodology, ethical and legal norms and the history of communication; students gain professional experience in practical seminars focused on creative drill; students create own media products through simulated and project-oriented learning in the training medium; all the acquired knowledge and skills will then be accredited in the obligatory all-semester practice in the media.
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Practical training
An obligatory part of the program is a 12-week professional practical training. The practice is in the medium and at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism accompanied by supervision by professional journalists and lecturers of the department. The training typically takes place in the fourth semester of the program but can be completed in one of three possible terms throughout the academic year. The training is based on specialized journalistic skills, according to the type of chosen media. The professional practice offers students an important opportunity to link previous theoretical lessons and practical seminars at the department with real work in real editorial conditions. The main goal is to allow students to cope with the real work in the field during the three month training in the media. Students are comprehensively acquainted with the daily work routine of a particular institution. The knowledge acquired in this institution is consistently reflected in their work under the guidance of teachers. At the same time, students learn to work inside and outside the institution. On the theoretical level, students acquire appropriate knowledge not only about their own organization but also about various functions of corporations, state administration, local government and other public sectors. The reflection of the practice, which involves consulting the supervisors and elaborating a reflexive-analytical report, is primarily focused on three full-day seminars led by the department's lecturers. Practitioners not only acquire and consolidate their practical skills and routine creative and editorial practices, but also increase their knowledge qualitatively through a reflexive dimension. This greatly extends the career prospects of graduates and significantly increases their competitiveness compared to others who do not absorb such a cycle – the linkage between theory and practice (in addition to a three months of daily work in the media).
Overview of the places where the training can be practiced (selection):
Czech Television (as well as web editors, or social media reporting)
Czech Radio
Czech Press Office - Editorial Office Brno
Hospodářské noviny, iHNed.cz, Aktuálně.cz
VLM Dailies (newsrooms in almost every district)
MF Dnes, iDnes.cz, 5 plus 2
Právo, Novinky.cz
Press Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR)
Hospodárske noviny (Slovakia)
Daily N (Slovakia)
SME (Slovakia)
Pravda (Slovakia)
New Europe (Belgium)
An optional part of the program is a professional practical training focused on non-journalistic communication skills, such as PR.
Further information
http://www.fss.muni.cz/?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/kmszfss/
http://munimedia.cz
Career opportunities
Graduates of the program find job in the state, public and private sectors. They can act as journalists in print media (newspapers, magazines, publishers); electronic media (radio, television) and online media. At the same time, they are prepared to work in the executive positions in all the above-mentioned types of media organizations as well as in communication agencies. The program also enables them to work in public relations as a press spokesperson or as a media adviser. They are partly ready for the work of media analysts, working in research agencies and analytical departments of media companies. Bachelor study prepares students for new jobs on the labour market establishing the tradition of a new profession of mediologist or media expert, reflecting the ever-changing market trend in media field. Systematic preparation in this direction is, however, strongly held in the master's study as the main aim of education. Graduates of the bachelor's program can also build their career in the field of education (e.g. at the level of primary and secondary education) as experts in mass communication, who are able to interpret the media influence on everyday life and society and to cultivate media literacy and culture. Graduates of the program will, therefore, apply not only for the positions of independent creative and production workers in the media field, but also for other (non-journalistic) positions of communication such as PR staff, press spokespersons, creative agents in communication agencies, less typically as regular media professional researchers.
Admission requirements
No information available
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Combined studies
In this type of studies, the students focus on the main degree programme (120 credits) supplemented with another, minor, programme (60 credits). The student enrols in the degree programme in which he/she majors. Both the programmes are stated in the university diploma. You will find possible combinations on the websites of individual degree programmes. An exception is programmes preparing students for teaching professions, where both fields of study are equal and the thesis may be written in any of them.
Other combinations
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Aesthetics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Ancient History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Art History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Chinese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Classical Greek language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Combined Art Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ English Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ French Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ General Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ German language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Japanese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Latin language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Polish Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Russian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Social Education and Counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Study of Religions (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Ukrainian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
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Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration -
Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
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Media Studies and Journalism (major), full-time studies
+ Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics
Media Studies and Journalism as a minor degree programme
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Contemporary History (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Environmental Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
European Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Human resource development and employment (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
International Relations (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Political Science (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor)
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Security & Strategic Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Social Anthropology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Social Work (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Sociology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Aesthetics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Ancient History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Archival Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Art History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Baltic Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Catalan Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Chinese Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Classical Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Greek and Latin Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Combined Art Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Computational Linguistics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Czech Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor)
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
English Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Ethnology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
French Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
General Linguistics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
German Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Information and Library Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Italian Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Japanese Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Greek and Latin Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Modern Greek Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Museology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Musicology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Pedagogy (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Philosophy (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Polish Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Portuguese Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Russian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Social Education and Counselling (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Spanish Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Study of Religions (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Theatre Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Theory of Interactive Media (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Ukrainian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
-
Economic Policy (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Economics (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) -
Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
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Informatics (major) – Faculty of Informatics, full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor)
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
Single-subject studies
Combined studies
Other combinations
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
Follow-up studies
A graduate of a Bachelor's degree program may, after fulfilling the conditions of admission, continue the postgraduate study of media studies and journalism in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at the FSS MU. At the same time, after completing the bachelor's degree program, he/she is a fully qualified practitioner.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Social Studies | |
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| Type of studies | Bachelor's | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | No | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
| major/minor studies | Yes | |
| Standard length of studies | 3 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
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