At last, the Centre for Journalism has a back page. Sports Journalism is an optional module for postgraduates and final year undergraduates which will run for the first time this autumn.

If you have dreamed of slipping into the press seats at Wembley for the FA Cup final, or spending a day in the multimedia press tent at The Open, or clinging for dear life to a motorbike to follow the yellow jersey in the Tour de France then this module is for you.

Sports Journalism follows the NCTJ Sports Journalism syllabus, with its focus on rugby, cricket and football, and expands on it to look at more sports, feature-writing, columns, and minute-by-minute rolling reports.

We’ll also look at the shifting context of sports journalism, why it is given such high importance by modern newspapers, and look at the criticism that sports journalists are just “fans with typewriters” with no interest in investigative journalism that could undermine their heroes.

The module runs for 12 weeks in the autumn term.