Current active course description (last updated 2023/24)
Reporting as storytelling - Project
JOU2002
Current active course description (last updated 2023/24)
Reporting as storytelling - Project
JOU2002
In this course about reporting, the student will utilize the skills and knovledge aquired for good reporting and more in-depth journalistim on various platforms and in various genres. The course includes selling journalistic products to editors.
This course builds directly on the course Multi-medial reporting - methodology in the fourth semester, where the theoretical and practical basis for reporting work was set out. In Multi-medial reporting - project, the student will put their reporting skills into practice by producing a publishable, large report or series of reports. Methodology and reflection notes must accompany the report. As the title of the course indicates, the student can choose which platform to use for the reporting; whether it should be produced for text media/online, radio/podcast or video/TV. An online reportage can combine text, images, video, graphics and animations. The reporting must mainly be a piece of independent work, but the student will be supervised by subject teachers. The course also provides knowledge of the freelance role and a brief introduction to establishing your own workplace. The course will include developing and pitching ideas, and how to professionally sell your own journalistic products to editors.
Students must have been admittet into the bachelor program in journalism.
Knowledge
The student
- has knowledge of different ways of making a report
- has an overview of reporting as a journalistic genre and function
- has in-depth knowledge of source criticism and ethics
- gains experience by working journalistically close to ordinary people
- has knowledge of language and the practical function of other reporting techniques
- has knowledge of various tools and equipment for use in editorial presentation
- has knowledge of what is required in order to create their own workplace, and the opportunities that the role of a freelance journalist provides
Skills
The student
- can create a large, publishable reportage
- can establish an issue and research it until it becomes a complete reportage
- can work independently on a large journalistic project
- can conduct research, critical source analysis and complex ethical assessments
- can identify, organise, and analyse a large body of sources/data material for journalistic use
- can observe relevant environments and use selected observations as scenes in a report
- can compose and convey journalistic messages that include dramaturgy adapted to the reporting genre
- can create, develop and pitch ideas to editorial managers/clients
General competence
The student
- gains experience by building a knowledge base on a area of society
- learns how to conduct project work
- gains knowledge of the journalistic professional life and field of study
- receives training in providing colleagues with constructive feedback about their work
- Shows the ability of self-critical reflection
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply
Mandatory
Lectures, seminars, discussions and supervision both individually and in groups. In addition, a lot of independent student work including ongoing feedback from subject teachers.
The programme of study is evaluated annually by the students through course surveys (mid-term evaluation and final evaluation). The evaluations are part of the university’s quality assurance system
Task followed by adjusting oral exam (OM). Report or series of reports based on a topic of the student’s choice, and methodology report. Individual submission. Grading scheme A-F. Represents 100/100 % of the course grade.
Task (OP/O) with a description and documentation of how the report/series of reports in the examination task was/were pitched to an editorial institution. Individual submission. Grading scheme: Pass/fail. Assessment criteria according to the course learning outcome descriptions.
Task: any. Oral exam: none, except from the student's own task.
JOU2001
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
JOU2006 - Narrative Journalism - 10 credits