Place:

Swedish School of Social Science. Working assignments in Estonia.

Credits:

6 ECTS credits

Course content:

The course is aimed at providing students with the conceptual framework and the practical skills needed to work as a foreign reporter on assignment. These include accessing sources in the country where assignments are carried out, report production and filing. Instructors and lecturers are drawn from both academic institutions and from the professional international press corps. The course includes a one-week reporting trip to Estonia where the student produce a report(s) under actual working conditions.

The course consists of:

• theory and practice of foreign reporting
• an intensive introduction to the target area, mainly Estonia
• working assignment(s) in Estonia and in Finland

Reporting trip research is expected to be carried out throughout the course.

Lecturer

Eddy Hawkins

Place:

Swedish School of Social Science

Credits:

5 ECTS credits

Course content:

The course in International Journalism has a double focus. First, it discusses the international news flows as documented in the flow studies since the 1950s. Further the course focuses on the dominant modes of journalism and their journey across cultures and national borders. Guest lectures and visits to media institutions will help to sharpen the view on the role of news journalism in present-day world. The basic aim is to elaborate on problems embedded in the ideals of objectivity, rapidity and the strict reporting modes that characterise internationally oriented news journalism. Thus basically the course deals with questions around journalistic professionalism.
The students are expected to be acquainted with some of the course literature before the beginning of the course.

Examination:

Course participants are examined on the basis of an essay (8-10 pages).

Lecturer:

Ullamaija Kivikuru, Professor

Place:

Swedish School of Social Science

Credits:

5 ECTS credits

Course content:

This course introduces students to the challenge of ethnic diversity in contemporary societies and explores the ways in which ethnicity may be related to processes of exclusion and marginalization. It addresses the role of the media in contributing to an active public sphere and facilitating democratic engagement between members of society.
At the end of this course the students should possess a critical capacity to identify the ways in which ethnicity is coded and given political relevance in any country in which they operate.  They should understand how racism and other ideologies of oppression may permeate ethnic relations and how the media may be implicated in this process. They will have an understanding of how modes of  journalistic practice may deny ‘voice’ to particular communities and individuals, and have a reflexive critical sensibility toward their practice in multi-ethnic societies. 

Examination:

Course participants are examined on the basis of lecture participation,set work and an essay.

Lecturer:

Charles Husband, Professor (University of Bradford)

The objective of the course iss to engage in a reflective examination of the learning process and the newly acquired competences through a shared practical experience. Students carry out a final practical assignment before reviewing the contents and implications of the Foreign Reporting module.