3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4021125EER for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
Linguistics and Literary Studies
Educational team
Jelle Mast (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
18 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
90 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course involves the scientific study of journalism. It provides an overview of the different academic perspectives and approaches to journalistic production, content and reception and to the methods used in the domain of journalism studies. Students acquire a frame of reference for the critical analysis of journalism based on 'classic' and recent theories and empirical research located at the intersection of communication sciences and sociology.  

 

 

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Digitale reader, Canvas
Additional info

Slides and reader are made available via the digital platform Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

- Students are able to look at journalists and their working environment from an academic perspective: they are familiar with the (international) developments in journalism studies and they can situate journalistic practices in an academic context.

- Students can set up basic research: they can connect insights from various scientific domains and formulate new research questions.

- Students know qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct academic research at a junior research level.

 

Insight

Students have a thorough vision on the social function of journalism.

Students are able to link together insights and concepts concerning journalistic production, content and reception.

Apply

Students are able to set up their own research: they can relate insights from different scholarly approaches (also those acquired in their previous studies) with each other in a critical way and think of new research questions.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
SELF Presentation determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Individual assignment (essay) with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

    Note: Second session: 1) open book exam (laptops and other electronic devices not allowed) (70%)
    2) individual assignment: essay in which students work out a personal application on the course (30%)

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Open book /written exam with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: Second session: 1) open book exam (laptops and other electronic devices not allowed) (70%)
    2) individual assignment: essay in which students work out a personal application on the course (30%)

Within the SELF Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Individual presentation with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

    Note: Second session: 1) open book exam (laptops and other electronic devices not allowed) (70%)
    2) individual assignment: essay in which students work out a personal application on the course (30%)

Additional info regarding evaluation

1) Open book examination (no laptops and other electronic equipment/devices allowed) (50%)

2) Individual presentation on problem definition/research design master thesis. (20%)

3) Individual essay in which the student elaborates a current example of a particular part of the course. (30%)

 

Examination for all course components is required in order to pass. In the second examination period, resit is only required for those components for which the student did not pass in the first period. 

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 Journalism: Profile Profile Audiovisual Media (AVM) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Journalism: Profile Profile Text Media (TXT) (only offered in Dutch)