Journalism, Politics and Ideology

6 ECTS credits
152 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4019902EER voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend master niveau.

Semester

1e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Ja

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Faculteit

Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

Communicatiewetenschappen

Onderwijsteam

Benjamin De Cleen (titularis)

Onderdelen en contacturen

24 contacturen Hoorcollege
128 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen

Inhoud

This course provides students with the concepts and theories to understand and critically reflect on the relations between journalism, politics and ideology.
It covers:

1. the relations between journalism and media and the field of politics,
2. the broader political-ideological dimensions of journalism and media,
3. ideologies of journalism – reflecting on how different journalistic models, values, and identities impact on the relations between journalism, politics and ideology.

The course is structured around seminars with discussion of academic literature and application of concepts to current topics.

Studiemateriaal

Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Advanced Theoretical Debates: Journalism, Politics and Ideology, Reader, Canvas

Bijkomende 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.

• Practical: 24 hours (12 seminars of 2 hours)
• Self: 128 hours
  • preparatory reading seminars, amounting to 4 hours per seminar: 48 hours (12 x 4 hours)
  • 2 short individual essays, amounting to 16 hours (2 days) per essay:  32 hours (2 x 16 hours)
  • preparation exam:  48 hours (6 days of 8 hours)

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

After having followed this course, students should:

• have an understanding of the political and ideological dimensions of journalism and media
• understand and be able to use the concepts used to reflect on the political and ideological dimensions of journalism and media
• be able to communicate their critical and academically argued reflections in a written and oral manner

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Mondeling bepaalt 60% van het eindcijfer

Examen Andere bepaalt 40% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Mondeling dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

• Mondeling Examen met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 60% van het totale eindcijfer.

Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

• Individuele papers met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 40% van het totale eindcijfer.
  
  Toelichting: 2 papers voor elk 20% van het eindtotaal

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The grade for the class is made up of two components:

• Oral exam: Two questions based on reader and seminars (60% of the total grade)
• Two individual papers for 20% each (40% of the total grade)

You need to participate in the exam and submit the two essays to be able to pass. Not participating in one of the components (exam and or paper(s)) implies an 'absence' for the entire course.

The distribution of grades remains identical in the second session.

The general principle for the second session is: if you failed for the course in its totality, you retake all of the parts you did not pass. In the second session too, you need to participate in the exam and the two essays to be able to pass. Not participating in one of the components (exam and or essay(s)) implies an 'absence' for the entire course.

In a bit more detail:

• Oral exam first session not passed or not participated: Oral exam second session (same set-up for exam as first session: Two questions based on reader and seminars)
• Paper(s) not passed or not participated: (re)submit one or two failed/not participated papers(s)

If you need to participate in the second session, but scored minimum 10/20 for one of the three parts of the evaluation, the partial result of the part(s) of the evaluation you scored minimum 10/20 for (written assignment 1, written assignment 2, and/or the oral exam) is transferred to the second session. If you wish to retake that part(s) you scored minimum 10/20 for in the second session, you need to send an e-mail to bdecleen@vub.be within five days after the publication of the exam results. In case you retake that part in the second session, your first session result is cancelled and the second session result becomes the official result (even if it is lower than the first session result).
If you need to retake the course in the next year, the same rules apply. Partial results from 10/20 (for assignment(s) or oral exam) are transferred to the next academic year. If you want to retake a part, you need to request this before the end of October by mail to bdecleen@vub.be.

Toegestane onvoldoende

Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of Communication Studies: Journalism and Media in Europe (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)