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
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Course outcomes
- 01 1. Define the principles of journalism
- 02 2. Evaluate the newsworthiness of events
- 03 3. Interpret the major journalism genres in practice
- 04 4. Compare investigative journalism, muckraking journalism and watchdog journalism
- 05 5. Describe citizen, advocacy, literary, data journalism
- 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
- 01 1. The Language of Journalism; A multi-genre perspective - Smith A., Higgins M.; Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
- 02 2. Journalism: New Challenges; Karen Fowler-Watt and Stuart Allan (eds); Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University, 2013
- 03 3. Various articles from online sources
- 04 4. Course notes on the moodle.ciu.edu.tr
Learning Outcomes
- L01 1. Define the principles of journalism
- L02 2. Evaluate the newsworthiness of events
- L03 3. Interpret the major journalism genres in practice
- L04 4. Compare investigative journalism, muckraking journalism and watchdog journalism
- L05 5. Describe citizen, advocacy, literary, data journalism
- L06 6. Critically reflect embedded and war journalism; implement peace journalism and their essentials
Program Outcomes
- P01 The student chooses the design principles and can match the application
- P02 Students will be able to define national and international values in art and design
- P03 Students will be able to define abstract and concrete design concepts and express them in composition
- P04 The student can adjust the time correctly to complete his / her graphic application
- P05 The student matches the relationship between image and meaning
- P06 Students can express what they see by drawing
- P07 Identifies the traces, aligns, and calculates the hierarchy of typographic elements
- P08 Defines and lists art and design materials
- P09 Expresses an idea, concept or phenomenon visually in a creative way
- P10 Solves the design problems encountered in the process
- P11 Symbolizes concepts, situations, and objects in the visual context
- P12 Develops design projects by recalling basic graphic design principles
- P13 Applies technology effectively in the design process
- P14 Can think critically and question theoretical gains in the context
- P15 Relate the past, present, and future of design
- P16 Can perform original works related to the field and evaluate the results
- P17 Designs and produces different visual areas such as multimedia, advertising graphics, animation, new media, printmaking, and photography
- P18 Improves communication skills for teamwork
- P19 Can effectively discuss, criticize and form theory about the field
- P20 Student can organize paragraphs, single-column, multi-column and modular grids in book and magazine designs
- P21 Can plan collaborations with colleagues in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary environments
- P22 Can associate written texts with visual images
- P23 Can observe and compare in the context of art criticism methods
- P24 Can apply legal regulations and procedures in the field
- P25 Be able to associate written texts with visual images
Po-Lo Matrix
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