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
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