Journalism Theory

Scholar Year: 2018/2019 - 2S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Orlando César Antunes Gonçalves Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC E OT OT/PL TPL O S Type of classes Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 4,00 Orlando César   4,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Provide the acquisition of knowledge about journalism, the economic, political and social context of news production, about current pressures and constraints that affect journalistic work and mediated social relations. Develop an understanding of the theoretical framework and the ability to critically evaluate the social impact of journalism. Understand the role and importance of the media in contemporary society and the product of journalistic work as a specific set of social practices, codes and conventions.
To acquire knowledge about the complex phenomenon of mass communication, to understand the production, processing and effects of symbol systems and to distinguish the significant elements of the analyzed phenomenon.
Develop skills on the body of knowledge of journalism, its social practices and community of values, norms, perceptions and culture. Ability to use the tools of journalism and develop the skills that guide journalists' understanding and how they deal with reality.

Syllabus

Identify journalism as a profession, as an institution, as a discursive domain, as a community, as a set of practices, as a phenomenon of inscription of knowledge and as object of investigation.
Mapping the different fields of research, both from the perspective of Denis McQuail (2003) and Barbie Zelizer (2004) approach. Contextualize the press theories and the three models of communication and politics. To approach the field of journalism in Bourdieu's perspective and the theoretical organizational concepts and the gatekeeper, newsmaking and agenda setting.
Face the research in journalism according to the origin of those who study it. To approach the reality of communication and present the definition of journalism as art and as science. To present the three epistemological areas that Mats Ekström (2002) designates as: form of knowledge, production of knowledge and public acceptance / legitimacy of knowledge claim.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

The programmatic contents try to put into perspective the context, the field of relations and the instruments of which journalism serves to represent reality and produce the knowledge that is specific to it. The understanding of the elements, concepts and instruments give the conditions to understand the knowledge and modus operandi, patterns of behavior and interaction on which journalism is based.

Teaching methodologies

Theoretical-practical classes taught using the expository method combined with the active method. Complementarity between direct teaching and indirect method. Organize two seminars and provide fieldwork that contributes to the establishment of social interactions and the involvement of students in the construction of their own knowledge. Promote cooperative work, research and problem solving.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

Direct teaching, using active methods, attempts to transmit cognitive notions about the domain of production and journalistic practices, which includes institutionalized relationships and action patterns, which are essential to the specific type of journalism knowledge production.
Indirect teaching encourages the involvement of students, providing them with knowledge to deal with rules, practices, institutionalized procedures, and classification systems that determine the form of knowledge produced. The seminar debate and the papers aim to apprehend the social practices of journalism which, as classification activities, are structured to deal with unexpected and complex events in a routinized way.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

The starting point is a diagnostic evaluation, through multiple choice test or classroom interaction. There will be two moments of formative evaluation throughout the semester and the summative evaluation is consubstantiated in the accomplishment of two works (one of them of group) and of a frequency test. The final classification results from the average between the classification obtained in the frequency, which is attributed to the work (s) and to the discursive structuring and linguistic correction.
The evaluation of the students will take this form of continuous process (depending on the participation in the academic activities) or the possibility of a final exam.
The modalities, products, calendar, parameters and evaluation criteria will be communicated to the students and negotiated with them in the first half of the semester and formalized in a document.

Attendance system

The continuous evaluation of the students depends on their participation in the academic activities.
Students who are not covered by the special status (article 23 of the Frequency and Evaluation Regulations) must participate in 50% of the teaching activities.
The control of attendance and punctuality is done by attendance record.

Assement and Attendance registers

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