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JAP: Journalistic Project: Observing the Media30039/1579/1819/1/70
Study guide

JAP: Journalistic Project: Observing the Media

30039/1579/1819/1/70
Academic year 2018-19
Is found in:
  • International programmes Management and Communication, programme stage 1
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 4 credits
Teaching staff: Van Doninck Jo
Languages: English
Scheduled for: Semester 1
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 15.10.2018 ()
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Possibility of deliberation: This course unit is eligible for deliberation according to the criteria as determined by the degree programme you are enrolled in.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Educational organisation (text)

This is not a regular course with lessons on a weekly basis. We’ll meet only 9-10 times, oral exam included. So you have plenty of time to read and study the book and prepare for discussion and analysis in the lessons, and to research, organize and do the interview. You are responsible for your own, and your team’s time management, development and result.

Course content

Why are the media wrestling with a crisis? Are they too self-destructive? Why can certain media find a second life in a choice for a constructive approach? What is the secret of "constructive news"? Are journalists strong and shrewd enough to avoid the pitfalls of populism? Are the media and populist politicians inevitably entwined and do they form  deadly twins for our democracy? How did populism come into being? How can journalists cope? And to begin with: can we define populism, anyway? 

In this journalistic project we try to find answers and  reach a deeper understanding of how the media work: we observe and analyse them. And above all: let's have passionate discussions about it! 

Required reading:
A.De Botton on the Media. You Tube,The School of Life, February 11th,2014.

A.De Botton. The News: A User's Manual (Ideas at the House).You Tube, Sydney Opera House, 2014.
Ulrik Haagerup. Constructive News.Jill Ann Press, Copenhagen. 2014

Jan-Werner Müller. What is Populism? University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2016.

Study material (text): Mandatory

In this journalistic project we try to reach a deeper understanding of how the media work: we observe and analyse them. That research is based on the required reading.
Required reading:
A.De Botton on the Media. You Tube,The School of Life, February 11th,2014.

A.De Botton. The News: A User's Manual (Ideas at the House).You Tube, Sydney Opera House, 2014.
Ulrik Haagerup. Constructive News.Jill Ann Press, Copenhagen. 2014

Jan-Werner Müller. What is Populism? University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2016.

Evaluation (text)

Product evaluation oral (exam  90%)
Process evaluation (presence and activity in lessons 10%) .
Your absence can only be tolerated twice. (legal documents are not necessary). A third absence means 0/20 (even with legal documents), except for very special, well-argumented AND accepted reasons.
Resit: oral exam about the required reading (100%)