Module Descriptors
THINKING JOURNALISM
JOUR40319
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 4
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Michael Temple
Email: M.Temple@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 20
Independent Study Hours: 130
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
10 x lectures (1 hour) - total 10 hours
To explore critical issues through introduction to key concepts and theoretical positions. Developing the ability to extract, understand and contextualise relevant information through listening, thinking and note taking.
10 x seminars (1 hour) - total 10 hours
Facilitating group discussion of issues raised in lectures to prompt reflection, extend thinking and research and enhance contextual understanding and evaluation.
Independent learning - 130 hours
Key Information Set:
Learning & Teaching
13% scheduled learning & teaching activities
87% guided independent learning
0% placement
To explore critical issues through introduction to key concepts and theoretical positions. Developing the ability to extract, understand and contextualise relevant information through listening, thinking and note taking.
10 x seminars (1 hour) - total 10 hours
Facilitating group discussion of issues raised in lectures to prompt reflection, extend thinking and research and enhance contextual understanding and evaluation.
Independent learning - 130 hours
Key Information Set:
Learning & Teaching
13% scheduled learning & teaching activities
87% guided independent learning
0% placement
Module Resources
Library texts and journals, newspapers and magazines, broadcast media, web media.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Module Texts
S. Allan Journalism: Critical Issues (Open University Press, 2005)
M. Bromley & B. O'Malley eds. A Journalism Reader (Routledge, 1997)
B. Franklin, M. Hamer, M. Hanna, M. Kinsey & J.E. Richardson Key Concepts in Journalism Studies (Sage, 2005)
B. McNair The Sociology of Journalism (Hodder Arnold, 1998)
D. Rowe Sports, Culture and the Media (Open University Press, 2004)
J. Wilson Understanding Journalism (Routledge, 1996)
M. Bromley & B. O'Malley eds. A Journalism Reader (Routledge, 1997)
B. Franklin, M. Hamer, M. Hanna, M. Kinsey & J.E. Richardson Key Concepts in Journalism Studies (Sage, 2005)
B. McNair The Sociology of Journalism (Hodder Arnold, 1998)
D. Rowe Sports, Culture and the Media (Open University Press, 2004)
J. Wilson Understanding Journalism (Routledge, 1996)
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Must satisfy these admission requirements: be enrolled on a journalism area award - core module for journalism, broadcast journalism and sports journalism, award-specific option for all joint honours journalism awards, ethical world journalism and music journalism and broadcasting - available ONLY to students enrolled on journalism awards.
Module Additional Assessment Details
The essay will meet Learning Outcomes 1 - 4
Key Information Set:
100% Coursework
Key Information Set:
100% Coursework
Module Indicative Content
Examination of critical issues in journalism through theoretical analysis, indicating wherever possible the potential for the use of theory to inform practice, focusing on topics drawn from current debates including: moral panics, spin and control, sport, popularity and populism, ownership, government and power, ideology, meaning and mendacity, ethics and vocation, gender, ethnicity and plurality, public opinion, public interest and the public sphere.