BA/BS in Broadcasting and Hosting Arts

Broadcasting and Hosting Arts at Northwest University draws on the university's link to a well-known pioneer of Chinese broadcasting who studied there. The programme combines classroom teaching with practice outside class and brings together resources from several disciplines, cultures and fields. Students gain knowledge from broadcasting studies, broadcast journalism, language and literature, aesthetics and communication studies. The target is a versatile public communicator, ready for mainstream and converged media, film and television, publicity work, and enterprises or public bodies. Graduates are expected to handle announcing and hosting, spoken communication, cross-screen communication, voice-over for film, on-camera reporting, and new-media editing and production. The programme is taught on the Northwest University campus in Xi'an, Shaanxi. Mainland applicants enter through the national gaokao system, and prospective students should check the undergraduate admissions office for current subject requirements, score lines and enrolment plans.