The course will provide students with knowledge and skills in interviewing, including planning, listening, observing and using aids for different kinds of media.
This course will provide students with knowledge and skills on investigative journalism. It will expose students to the principles of journalistic investigating and writing investigative news articles.
The course will provide students with working knowledge of elements of commentary writing which will enable them to acquire commentary writing skills
This course explores the timeline from proposal to completion of a professional documentary film.
This course introduced students to digital video production principles and practice.
This course provides an overview of the foundational principles and basic issues of media ethics and law. Different ethical theories (such as
categorical imperative, golden mean, utilitarianism, potter box) and laws including international and local laws are discussed based on the
relevant case studies.
The course introduces knowledge on editing in the information age, the fundamentals of editing, and the process of editing for different
media. Students also learn on the
technique of editing by design concept and design pages on computers by using relevant desktop publishing software while critically
assessing the content of the pages.
The course will introduce students to basic knowledge of journalism theories and professional practices. It focuses on the universal concepts of journalism and specific topics on journalistic practices in different socio-political systems and media institutions.
The courses provides detail knowledge about rhetoric and knowledge about rhetoric analysis in journalism. The course also enables students to understand and identify rhetorical and textual structures in journalism.
The course provides students with working knowledge of major rhetorical devices to enable them to identify relevant rhetorical choices that are made in journalistic discourse and to consciously make rhetorical choices themselves.
The course combines theoretical and practical knowledge about global and international communication. Starting from the basic concept of communication to international communication approaches, the course will focus on gradual evolution in international communication concept. The course also examines the role of global communication in shaping international politics, security, societal activism, and trans-border cultural practices. It engages students with practices of international communication, as deployed by different actors, including nationstates, activists, hackers and cultural producers, as well as with the contradictions that these practices ensue for our ability to derive theories about and to partake in global communication. This course will provide students with diverse implications of international communication, theoretically grounded in different lenses of the field, and practically equipped to incorporate international communication into their career trajectories.
This module is designed to introduce journalism and mass communication students to the basic principles and techniques of data collection and analysis used in systematic research. The research process in mass communications is studied, with particular emphasis on archival (library) and basic scientific research. Students will become familiar with the basic philosophy and techniques of social science research, data collection methods, sampling procedures, and data analysis – preparing them to be more discriminating readers of research reports and articles.
The course provides students with a systematic knowledge of electronic news production, covering various topics, such as camera operation, lighting techniques, sound recording, and interviewing techniques.
The Success Strategies course focuses on research, discussion and application of success principles and strategies and related 'soft skills'. This course will springboard from Stephen Covey’s award-winning '7 Habits of Highly Effective People to help students develop these soft skills and related success strategies. This course helps students to think critically, plan effectively, improve their ability to communicate, practice their writing skills as part of course assignments, and examinations and achieve greater ability to work with others to achieve synergistic goals.
This course focuses on fundamental sociological perspectives in understanding and analyzing society. It deals with relevant sociology theories to help students to understand, analyse and solve critical issues in society.
This course enables students to explore the timeline from concept to completion of a short documentary film targeted to specific audiences.
This course introduces students to the major techniques and methods of digital video production.
The course will provide students with basic skills of English language pronunciation, phrasing, emphasis, body language, eye contact and sufficient energy to convey idea coherently especially in Journalism reporting. It includes instruction in methods and techniques for reporting and presenting news in a professional manner.