JOURNALISM CASE STUDIES
- Course
- JRN450 - JOURNALISM CASE STUDIES
- Department
- Master of Business Administration - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 0
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 0 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
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Course Description
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JOURNALISM CASE STUDIES
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Course outcomes
- 01 1. Judge the contemporary issues in media
- 02 2. Explain causes of real-life dilemmas mainly covered in news media
- 03 3. Analyze the situation and identify the problem according to the cases discussed
- 04 4. Relate the discourses commonly used in media to the cases commonly seen
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to the course, examples for the journalism case studies |
| Week 2 | Gender and sex; differences, characteristics; overall representation of gender issues in the media |
| Week 3 | Discourse and content analysis; advantages and disadvantages of discourse analysis |
| Week 4 | Representation of women in advertisements, news media, and photography |
| Week 5 | Women's perceptions of beauty in advertising; stereotypes, false consciousness, false needs |
| Week 6 | Women's perceptions of beauty in magazines; magazine covers |
| Week 7 | Presentations of the students: representation of women in the media |
| Week 8 | MIDTERM EXAM WEEK |
| Week 9 | Child abuse and child neglect; differences and examples of abuse and neglect |
| Week 10 | Arguments on case studies of various problems of the representation of children in the news media; case studies from different nations' media |
| Week 11 | Presentations of the students: representation of children in the media |
| Week 12 | "The Others" in the society: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Homophobia, Trans-phobia |
| Week 13 | Hate speech and hate crime; Homosexuality in the media |
| Week 14 | Presentations of the students: representation of "the others" in the media |
| Week 15 | FINAL EXAM WEEK |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Lundberg, Kirsten O., Palmer, Ruth (editors). (2011). Our Digital Future: Boardrooms and Newsrooms.Columbia Journalism School Publications
- 02 Harcup, Tony. (2009). Journalism, Principles and Practice. Sage Publications.
- 03 News media publications as newspapers, magazines and Internet
Learning Outcomes
- L01 1. Judge the contemporary issues in media
- L02 2. Explain causes of real-life dilemmas mainly covered in news media
- L03 3. Analyze the situation and identify the problem according to the cases discussed
- L04 4. Relate the discourses commonly used in media to the cases commonly seen
Program Outcomes
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