GLOBAL JOURNALISM

Course Description

This course will encourage students to address the issues facing modern journalists and news organizations working in the international arena, both in practical and critical terms. The course will examine the ways in which globalization has influenced processes of news gathering and dissemination, the practical and ethical challenges which journalists encounter in an international context, and the relationship between journalistic practices and emerging media technologies. Students will also make comparative studies of individual news stories, examining the ways in which the same news events are reported in different ways by different new organizations according to their dominant ideological positions.

GLOBAL JOURNALISM

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

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Course outcomes

1. 01 1. assess journalism profession
2. 02 2. analyze news values and essentials for news journalism
3. 03 3. evaluate global news and its differences from local, national and international news
4. 04 4. implement the major news agencies, most circulated and most web ranked newspapers
5. 05 5. identify public broadcasting and classify most influential television corporations in the world

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 newsmanual.net Chapter 1 - 7

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 1. assess journalism profession
2. L02 2. analyze news values and essentials for news journalism
3. L03 3. evaluate global news and its differences from local, national and international news
4. L04 4. implement the major news agencies, most circulated and most web ranked newspapers
5. L05 5. identify public broadcasting and classify most influential television corporations in the world

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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