Master's Degree in Travel Journalism (Online)

Do you want to train as a professional who tells stories around the world? Would you like to be familiar with the tools needed to create original and innovative projects? Then the master's degree in Travel Journalism will help you achieve that.

You will become a multimedia journalist; you will enrich your own culture by sharing a virtual classroom with people from all over the world; you will specialise in the area that best suits your interests, studying in a dynamic and flexible environment that will allow you to organise your free time; you’ll have access to original materials with high-value content created especially for you.

A staff of expert and highly experienced teachers made up of journalists, specialist travel guides, writers, archaeologists, cyberjournalists, audiovisuals specialists and photographers will teach and advise you throughout the course. Register and develop a personal project linked to travel journalism as a master's degree final project.
 

Career opportunities

Possibilities and professional opportunities offered by the Lifelong Learning Master's degree in Travel Journalism range from positions linked to the field of tourism to travel communication (in press cabinets, magazines, web platforms or media) and specialized journalism.
The course trains multitasking and multipurpose professionals, capable of working as content editors, text editors, audiovisual producers and/or webmasters in magazines, newspapers, producing agencies, television, radio and multimedia projects linked to communication and travel sectors.

Alternatively, the Lifelong Learning Master's degree is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge so that students can become successful professionals capable of developing a solid career as tour guides, communication and public relations managers and marketing experts in companies in the sector.

To all this must be added the possibility of designing and constituting successful initiatives and projects, such as the creation of companies in the field of travel communication. All this from the contents that make up the academic curriculum of the programme.

Testimony

• The master's degree in Travel Journalism opened up a fascinating world based around travel and its distinct narratives. Travellers, chroniclers, novelists, anthropologists, and expeditionists all helped me to develop a more sensitive and reflective perspective.

  Ricardo López

Internships

UAB masters and graduate diplomas may include or facilitate external academic internships in companies or institutions in order to help the student to achieve a level of expertise that facilitates the insertion or promotion in the workplace.

For this study programme non-curricular (optional) internships are possible:

• Non-curricular
  As a UAB student, you have access to the University occupation portal, the Occupability Service, through which you can participate in selection processes for non-curricular practices as well as getting a contract. In both cases, you need to sign up to the Nexus application.

Scholarships and financial aid

Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.

Coordinating centres

Departamento de Periodismo y de Ciencias de la Comunicación

Contact

Albert Sarabia Tarraga

Phone: 935811689

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