6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4019915FNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.

Semester
2e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Communicatiewetenschappen
Onderwijsteam
Ike Picone (titularis)
Cristina Michelle Gonzalez
Onderdelen en contacturen
33 contacturen Hoorcollege
18 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
99 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen
Inhoud

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 two main parts, addressing different aspects of the professional context:

  1. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks to understand how news is the outcome of a production process in turn shaped by various internal and external pressures, professional routines and journalistic values, adressing amongst others theories like Reese’s hierarchy of influence and Bourdieu’s field theory
  2. Interviews with media professionals where the concepts are benchmarked against the professionals' points of view. 

The course consists of a mixture of lectures and interviews with media professionals, providing students with the necessary insights to work on their assignment. The students will be asked to integrate and apply the acquired knowledge to the practical insights offered by the interviews with the media professionals.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Texts and powerpoint slides, 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.

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)
Leerresultaten

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

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Mondeling bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer

Examen Andere bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer

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

  • Mondeling Examen met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 50% van het totale eindcijfer.

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

  • Lesparticipatie met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 50% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie
  • 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.
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)