6 ECTS credits
152 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4019915FNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Communication Sciences
- Educational team
- Ike Picone
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
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39 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
101 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
Scope:
- provide students with actionable insights in how the practice of journalism is currently evolving and how the context is changing in which they will be working in as media and communication professionals in Europe;
- cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset amongst the students, i.e. reflect actively and critically on innovative directions for journalism;
- empower the students as future journalists and media workers to position themselves as knowledgeable, agile and independent journalists and media and communication professionals in the current European media and communication sector.
Outline:
The course will address evolutions and innovations in the practice of journalism, and the challenges journalists and media workers face in the light of the global digital disruption in the sector.
The course will consist of four main parts, addressing different aspects of the professional context:
- Contextual factors shaping journalists daily work practice: academic approaches to the study of journalistic practice like Reese’s hierarchy of influence and Bourdieu’s field theory
- Innovation and entrepreneurial culture within journalism: innovation processes, open innovation, Living Labs, disruption of business models, etc.;
- New aspects within journalistic practice: digital storytelling, development, data journalism, collaboration, monetization, creativity, etc.;
- Idea generation and project development: how to define the state of the art relating to your project, your innovation goals and the leap of knowledge, etc.
The course consists of a mixture of lectures and guest lectures, providing students with the necessary insights to work on their assignment. The students will be asked to integrate and apply the acquired knowledge into a blueprint for an own innovative media project, from the perspective of an employee in a media organisation or as a start-up.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Texts and powerpoint slides, Canvas
- Additional info
Teaching Methods
Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study
This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.
Lecture: 39 hours (13 x 3 hours)
Practical: 12 hours (4 x 3 hours)
- workshops with guest speakers
Self: 101 hours
- keeping up with the course material and collect extra information during the semester, amounting to 1 hour per week: 13 hours (13 x 1 hour)
- desk research, interviews, collection of data, etc. in preparation of the blueprint: 48 hours (6 days of 8 hours)
- writing of the blueprint paper based on the collected material: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)
- Learning Outcomes
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Algemene competenties
Competences:
- students will gain knowledge and understanding the dynamics of their future professional context
- students will be able to apply these insights to identify opportunities for journalism innovation
- students will be able to assess the impact of their professional actions from a socio-economical, deontological and entrepreneurial perspective
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral Exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Participation to the course
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The oral exam (50% of the total grade) will comprise question based on the (guest) lectures and an accompanying reader.
Participation to the course (50% of the total grade) will be evaluated based on your preparation of, participation to and evaluation of the various guest lectures.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Communication Studies: Journalism and Media in Europe