Course overview
This course will allow students to undertake a journalism passion project in which they explore different ideas around journalism production, theory and practice. Students will produce a piece of journalism by choosing their own medium, approach and style. They will then reflect on this production, and what their particular project adds to and says about journalism today. The course will provide students with cutting edge journalism practice skills while situating their work in wider theoretical debates around best practice and the future of journalism.
Course learning outcomes
- Gain practical experience producing journalism through different platforms
- Understand anf reflect on different approaches to and styles of journalism
- Develop a critical, theoretically informed approach to journalism practice
- Synthesis different sets of data and information into a coherent project
- Engage in critical self-reflection
- Produce high quality academic work to a deadline
- Produce work to industry standard