ATS3645 · Journalism and global change

Overview

This unit explores the significance of people power to journalism and role of journalism in empowering the dispossessed. You will gain critical insight into key forms of reporting that raise issues of advocacy, agency and accountability, including environmental journalism, peace and development reporting, and public journalism. By exploring the rationale behind each, you'll learn to approach news not as a series of discrete violent events but rather as part of complex, ongoing processes of social and environmental change. Drawing on case studies, theory and practical research techniques, you will evaluate gate-keeping decisions while producing in-depth investigations of your own.

Areas of study: Journalism

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Recognise the local and global dimensions of high-quality environmental, development and peace reporting;
2. Demonstrate an advanced ability to research, discuss and analyse issues in a clear, concise and nuanced way;
3. Use a range of research skills to find and interview a wide range of sources;
4. Produce written work to deadline, making effective use of the conventions of in-depth journalism and scholarly presentation;
5. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the role and functions of quality journalism in a context of marked environmental and social change.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.