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JOURNALISM GENRES

Course
JOUR454 - JOURNALISM GENRES
Department
Journalism - English - Undergraduate
Course Type
Course
Status
Required
Language
English
Credit
3
ECTS
5
T+P+L
3 + 0 + 0
Course Coordinator(s)
-
Prerequisite
-
Keywords

Course Description

This course examines the major genres featured in modern journalism in a variety of media contexts, including financial reporting, sports journalism, health journalism, arts reviewing, fashion journalism, science reporting, and lifestyle writing. Weekly lessons are based around case studies in s representative sample of these genres and will analyze a range of written examples. Students are encouraged to develop a specialism and produce original writing within it, which will be examines via a portfolio of original written work. The course will also feature contributions from local professional journalists who specialize in the journalism genres under consideration.

JOURNALISM GENRES

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

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Course outcomes

  1. 01 1. Define the principles of journalism
  2. 02 2. Evaluate the newsworthiness of events
  3. 03 3. Interpret the major journalism genres in practice
  4. 04 4. Compare investigative journalism, muckraking journalism and watchdog journalism
  5. 05 5. Describe citizen, advocacy, literary, data journalism
  6. 06 6. Critically reflect embedded and war journalism; implement peace journalism and their essentials

Course Syllabus

Week Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course and basic principles of journalism
Week 2 News as the main product in journalism and criteria of newsworthiness
Week 3 Information and news; relationship between
Week 4 Journalism genres: major types of journalism in practice
Week 5 Muckraking journalism and its history, origin of the name
Week 6 Investigative journalism and differences between journalists and law enforcement forces
Week 7 Watchdog journalism as a type of investigative journalism
Week 8 Mid-term Exams
Week 9 Advocacy journalism
Week 10 Data journalism
Week 11 Citizen journalism
Week 12 Literary journalism
Week 13 Peace journalism
Week 14 Embedded journalism; war journalism
Week 15 Final Exams

Reference Books & Course Materials

  1. 01 1. The Language of Journalism; A multi-genre perspective - Smith A., Higgins M.; Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
  2. 02 2. Journalism: New Challenges; Karen Fowler-Watt and Stuart Allan (eds); Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University, 2013
  3. 03 3. Various articles from online sources
  4. 04 4. Course notes on the moodle.ciu.edu.tr

Learning Outcomes

  1. L01 1. Define the principles of journalism
  2. L02 2. Evaluate the newsworthiness of events
  3. L03 3. Interpret the major journalism genres in practice
  4. L04 4. Compare investigative journalism, muckraking journalism and watchdog journalism
  5. L05 5. Describe citizen, advocacy, literary, data journalism
  6. L06 6. Critically reflect embedded and war journalism; implement peace journalism and their essentials

Program Outcomes

  1. P01 1- To have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge supported by textbooks, application tools and other resources including current information in the field of Accounting and Finance.
  2. P02 2- To be able to use advanced theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the field of Accounting and Finance.
  3. P03 3- To be able to interpret and evaluate data, identify problems, analyze and develop solutions based on research and evidence by using advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Accounting and Finance.
  4. P04 4- To be able to take responsibility as an individual and a team member in order to solve complex and unpredictable problems in accounting and finance applications.
  5. P05 5- To be able to plan and manage activities for the development of employees under the responsibility of a project.
  6. P06 6- To be able to determine the learning requirements in the field of Accounting and Finance and to direct their learning.
  7. P07 7- To be able to inform people and institutions about issues related to the field of accounting and finance, and to be able to transfer their ideas and solution proposals in writing and orally.
  8. P08 8- To be able to use information and communication technologies together with computer software at the European Computer Driving License Advanced Level required by the field of Accounting and Finance.
  9. P09 9- To act in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, interpreting, applying and announcing the results related to the field of accounting and finance.

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 Average
L01 - - - - - - - - - -
L02 - - - - - - - - - -
L03 - - - - - - - - - -
L04 - - - - - - - - - -
L05 - - - - - - - - - -
L06 - - - - - - - - - -