6 ECTS credits
150 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)
Cristina Michelle Gonzalez
- Activities and contact hours
- 33 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
99 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The course addresses evolutions and innovations in the practice of journalism, and the challenges journalists and media workers face in light of the global digital disruption in the sector. The lecturers will introduce students to theoretical and conceptual frameworks that help understand how news is the outcome of a production process in turn shaped by various internal and external pressures, professional routines and journalistic values. Students will get the opportunity to interview media professionals and evaluate their points of view.
- 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: 33 hours (11 x 3 hours)
Practical: 18 hours (6 x 3 hours)
- interviews with media professionals
Self: 99 hours
- keeping up with the course material and collect extra information during the semester, amounting to 1 hour per week: 11 hours (11 x 1 hour)
- desk research, interviews, collection of data, etc. in preparation of the interviews with media professionals: 48 hours (6 days of 8 hours)
- processing interviews: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)
- Learning Outcomes
-
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
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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 lectures, interviews with media professionals 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 interviews with media professionals to be discussed in a reflection paper.
Please note that participation in the course is mandatory. Concretely, this means that:
- Students that are not participating to the interviews with media professionals will be considered absent for participation to the course, and subsequently, for the whole course, regardless of the fact they would still submit a reflection paper;
- Students that do not hand in their reflection paper in first session will be considered as not having participated to the course, and will also be considered absent for participation to the course, and subsequently, for the whole course;
- Students that are absent for participation to the course, will not be admitted to the oral exam. Hence, participating to the interviews with media professionals and submitting your reflection paper is a prerequisite to be admitted to the exam;
- Students that are absent for the course in first session, are also considered absent for the course in second session. Hence, not participating to the interviews with media professionals and submitting your reflection paper in first session means that the course will need to be retaken in the next academic year;
- Students that hand in their reflection paper in first session, but that do not get a combined grade for the paper and the oral exam of minimum 10 out of 20 can retake the exam in second session.
Generative AI
The use of generative AI is allowed for certain parts of the assignments. In both the White Paper and the Weekly Preparation, it is permissible to use generative AI only as 1) a brainstorm tool, 2) a paraphrasing tool for written text, 3) a spelling and grammar writing aid. Any use of generative AI must be appropriately recognised. (See reference list AI)
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Communication Studies: Journalism and Media in Europe