CJVA456 English for Media Studies and Journalism (M.A.)

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Filip Hanzelka (lecturer)
Mgr. Dana Plíšková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Filip Hanzelka
Language Centre Faculty of Social Studies Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Filip Hanzelka
Supplier department: Language Centre Faculty of Social Studies Division – Language Centre
Timetable
Wed 11:30–13:00 U36
Prerequisites (in Czech)
(( FAKULTA ( FSS )&& TYP_STUDIA ( MN ))||( OBOR ( MUSFSS )))
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide opportunities to students of Media Studies and Journalism to analyze and discuss news and journal articles and academic lectures about topical issues from journalism.
There will also be a strong writing component included in the course: feature stories based on ideas of slow journalism will be worked on (and re-worked) throughout the semester.
Students will also be asked to watch the news outside the class and produce well-crafted leads orally at the start of seminars.
Syllabus
  • Week 1-3: interviewing skills, writing your own profile story
  • Week 4-8: news stories: analyzing the pyramid structure, the vocabulary of the headlines and subheads, different styles of news writing of different media, good and bad leads, writing your own news story
  • Week 9-12: the feature story: the language and structure of, analyzing a feature story for its characteristics (OWN WORK), writing your own feature story
Literature
  • BAINBRIDGE, Jason, Nicola GOC and Liz TYNAN. Media & journalism : new approaches to theory and practice. Third edition. South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford university press, 2015, xxix, 555. ISBN 9780195588019. info
  • MCCARTHY, Michael and Felicity O'DELL. Academic vocabulary in use. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 176 stran. ISBN 9780521689397. info
  • PAPE, Susan and Sue FEATHERSTONE. Feature writing : a practical introduction. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2006, 163 s. ISBN 1412908000. info
  • KEEBLE, Richard. The newspapers handbook. 4th ed. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2005, x, 299. ISBN 9780415331142. URL info
Teaching methods
analysis of written and spoken material, pair and class discussions, presentations/oral leads, writing and editing one's own and peer's work
Assessment methods
continuous fulfilment of tasks set in classes
a profile story
a news story
a feature story
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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