Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | AJER106 | ||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||
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, History and Development: What is journalism, its appearance and historical development.
Society, Policy and Journalism: The role of Journalism as “fourth power”, the changes and the role of Mass Media Communication in the modern era.
Journalism and Public Opinion: The role of Journalism in the configuration of Public Opinion and the bidirectional relation of citizen and Mass Media Communication.
News: What’s news, the structure of news, principles of writing of journalistic texts.
Interview: The importance of Interview, types of Interviews and their technique, reception and presentation of Interview.
Journalism and New Technologies: The press, the electronic media, new technologies, the modern journalism and online journalism. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
The teaching methods that we are using during the lesson periods are lectures, discussions, power point presentation, individual and group projects. Lectures are supplemented with film presentations and panel discussions.
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |