JOURNALISM GENRES

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

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

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. 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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