Course Details
Course Information Package
| Course Unit Title | REPORTING ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS & SPECIAL INTEREST TOPICS | ||||||||
| Course Unit Code | AJER125 | ||||||||
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| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
| Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
| Course Contents | Journalism and the Story. Principles of News Deconstructing the Story, the lead and the supporting information, inverted pyramid. Sources, resources, cross-referencing, archives and background research.. The credibility of the news. Quotes and attributions The language of news. Hard news- Soft News, the Feature Story. Style and Genre Questions of journalism ethics. | ||||||||
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks. Lectures are supplemented with workshop techniques and in-class exercises | ||||||||
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| Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
| Work placement(s) | NO | ||||||||
