To my mind journalism and photo journalism in the digital age would be the perfect degree for universities to have put on-line by now. The courses I’m finding, as I search for a distance learning course in something vaguely to do with this business however, are all accounting, law and book-keeping courses. Useful yes but none of them really “float my boat” so to speak.
I know many will argue that a degree has done them no favours and the school of life or hard-knocks or hands-on experience (please enter cliche here) has taught them all they need to know. But in Japan a Batchelors degree goes some way to making the day job I need to feed my kids less time consuming so that I can actually go out and take photos until I can oneday give up the day job and join you good people here with my head held high. Plus my wife would rather like me to have a degree so she can hold her head high too…(it’s a Japan thing).
So my question is; Does anyone know of an affordable online DEGREE course in this passion of ours? Basically one that will be worth the paper it’s written on and for US schools that seems to be about 20 to 30 thousand Dollars!
Better yet does anyone know of a UK university offering one that I may be able to screw some money from the government for?
It’s a blank, open question I know and I expect abuse and advice in equal measure but since moving back to the UK and finding all I’m quite good at is words and pictures, but not having any internationally recognized way to prove that, I have been a bit stuck for a worthwhile career to build my photo career on the back of. So much so that I have decided to move back to Japan where my language can earn me money; earn money doing that and study for what I really want to do in the future.
Any help greatly received.
Damon