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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 Becoming aware of sufficient theoretical knowledge in basic engineering and agricultural science
  2. P02 Having sufficient theoretical knowledge in basic agricultural production especially in pomology, viticulture, olericulture, floriculture and agronomy, and their breeding
  3. P03 Being well equiped with practical experiences in agriculture
  4. P04 Finding the source of environmental, biotic, abiotic, technical and economical problems in agricultural crops which reduce yield and quality, and create solutions to related problems
  5. P05 Defining, classifying and naming cultivated crop plants and knowing how to manage them
  6. P06 Breeding of horticultural and field crops, developing new cultivars and producing propagation materials of new developed varieties
  7. P07 Applying up-to-date methods and techniques for preserving genetic resources and environment for sustainable use in agricultural commodities
  8. P08 Evaluating, asseying and analyzing the changes in cultivation of horticultural and agronomic crops in respect to irrigation, fertilization, defining pests and diseases and after postharvest handling
  9. P09 Establishing and managing orchards, vineyards and field crop productions and greenhouse operations
  10. P10 Obtaining data in horticulture and field crops along with researching, considering, recording, consulting and expert abilities, project writing and applying
  11. P11 Identifying different roles in enchancing individual abilities and skills beside taking responsibilities, participations in team works under any given conditions
  12. P12 Easily accessing to appropriate information and thinking analytically in their interested area and subjects. They can do accurate timing and planning in agricultural productions in year round. They think analytically, prepare questionaries, have an exploratory and creative vision and use the obtained knowledge for the benefit of farmers and societies
  13. P13 Having ability to transfer information and also able to easily communicate with the people in the field at different levels. They have self - confidence and self- improvement skills as well

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 P11 P12 P13 Average
L01 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L02 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L03 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L05 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L06 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -