Journalism with New Media (MA) هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

This innovative MA programme offers the opportunity to gain a strategic and systematic understanding of the theory and practice of Journalism. It aims to equip graduates with the knowledge, skills and competencies required to effectively function as a professional journalist in the fast-growing professional communications sector.

The course pays particular attention to the growing importance of digital and interactive media on the practice of Journalism and its manifold impacts on the mass media industry. By developing students’ research, planning, and multimedia skills the course aims to produce graduates who can display leadership and the capacity for innovation within the dynamic and fast-evolving professional communications industry.

Course content focuses strongly on journalistic tools and techniques, particularly within the growing new media environment, and on the increasing globalisation and convergence of the media industries.

The course is a well-rounded, professional programme that prepares graduates for entry-level positions in the media. The programme stresses a balance of academic and practical modules and offers a solid grounding in the tools and practices of print, broadcast and online journalism.

WHAT IS JOURNALISM?

Journalism is the timely reporting of events at the local, provincial, national and international levels. Reporting involves the gathering of information through interviewing and research, the results of which are turned into a fair and balanced story for publication, for television or radio broadcast or for dissemination online. It also involves fact-finding, media analysis, opinion writing and commentary.

WHAT IS NEW MEDIA?

The term ‘new media’ describes the emergence of digital, computerised, interactive communication technologies. Interactivity has become a key term for a number of new media use options evolving from the rapid dissemination of internet access, the digitalisation of the media, and media convergence.

The global reach of new media communications technologies has important implications for the practice of journalism and this course focuses on the changing nature of media and journalism communications as a result of the rapid advances in digital technologies.

AIMS

To educate students with a wide range of media knowledge, skills and competencies that will enable them to become professionals in the media sector in a programme that ensures a balance between the theoretical and practical elements of Journalism. The multimedia modules of the programme will provide a firm grounding in the theory and practical elements of new media.

Assessment:Continuous assessment and written exams