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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 Be able to understand and apply security protocol and tools to security challenges faced in organizations
  2. P02 Be able to design security software to combat security issues
  3. P03 Be able to identify, categorize, and develop security solutions for computer orientated challenges.
  4. P04 Be able to demonstrate autonomy and responsibility in managing computer security projects
  5. P05 Be able to follow the state of the arts concepts in computer technology security
  6. P06 Be able to design, implement, and evaluate a computational system to meet desired security needs within realistic constraints
  7. P07 Be able to use appropriate security techniques, protocols, skills, and tools necessary for securing computer systems
  8. P08 Be able to apply effective communication skills consistent with the professional environment
  9. P09 Be able to apply effective collaboration skills in teamwork consistent with the professional environment
  10. P10 Be able to apply appropriate security technology and techniques to facilitate a safe operation in an organization

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 Average
L01 - - - - - - - - - - -
L02 - - - - - - - - - - -
L03 - - - - - - - - - - -
L04 - - - - - - - - - - -
L05 - - - - - - - - - - -
L06 - - - - - - - - - - -