Course List
JOUR4113 Editing Laboratory II
编辑实验室 II
For this course each student is required to “work” as editor of an experimental newspaper.
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报道实验室 IV
Students learn to produce an experimental newspaper under supervision.
Check DetailsJOUR1003 History of Mass Communication
大众媒体演变史
This course aims at giving students an orientation on the evolution of various mass media technology and what affects the efficiency and effectiveness of communication, and the ever-changing landscape of mass communication. By the end of the course, students will have a better understanding on how messages are conveyed through different medium, the impacts on various mass media when different technology is applied.
Check DetailsJOUR2043 Entertainment Journalism
文化娱乐报道
This course aims to equip students with the skills necessary to create a wide variety of media content relating to the entertainment and arts industry in the convergent media era. This includes skills in gathering information and content, getting and breaking stories, methods of interacting with entertainment media companies, conducting interviews with those in the entertainment and arts industry, writing media reviews and feature articles, and using social media. This also includes basic photography, presentation, and design skills, as well as advice on how to succeed professionally in the entertainment and arts journalism industry
Check DetailsJOUR2073 Popular Culture and Journalism
流行文化与新闻
This course examines representations of journalists and journalism in the popular culture, focusing on TV and film. The secondary emphasis will be on the influences on different types of journalism (i.e. investigative reporting, war reporting, political journalism), different issues in journalism (i.e. objectivity, ethics, Fourth Estate role, sensationalism, commercialism, whistleblowing), and how gender, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity inform journalistic practice.
Check DetailsJOUR2083 International Organizations Reporting
国际组织报道
The aim of the course is to prepare students to report on internationals news with a focus on international organizations. Four types of international organizations will be covered, namely the UN, the UN affiliated organizations, financial and monetary organizations and quasi-governmental organization. Familiarise students with how international organizations are structured and what should be taken note of when reporting on their activities. Different types of international organizations will be covered.
Check DetailsJOUR3003 Internship (IJ)
媒体实习
International Journalism students are required to undertake an internship. The internship is normally of at least six weeks full-time employment or professional practice during the summer between the third and fourth year. Students are required to conform to all reasonable requirements of their internship employer. Each student will be asked to write a reflection of no less than 1000 words after the internship.
Check DetailsJOUR3063 Advanced Photojournalism
高级新闻摄影
This course explores the nature of documentary photography and the use of photos to build a news narrative. Students will build the introductory course and produce meaningful, informative and artistic photographs suitable for publication in an editorial publication. Central themes will include ethics in photojournalism. Students will master the ability to create a magazine style photo spread, create a portfolio suitable to present to working photo editors during job interviews or client based assignments.
Check DetailsJOUR3073 Selected Topics in Journalism: Green Writing
新闻专业选题：环保报道
Green Writing is a course geared to making the student conversant in research and reporting writing on environmental issues. The formats for presentation will include, but are not limited to, investigative journalism, feature journalism, bulletin-style articles, broadcast news report scripts, public relations tracts, and policy papers. To develop a better understanding of these forms of writing, readings will range broadly across the subject of the environment and nature, particularly in China. The course covers areas where students will engage in becoming more observant about environmental conditions and changes, as well as the forces that underpin these conditions and processes.
Check DetailsJOUR3083 News Translation
新闻翻译
This course aims at enhancing the student’s ability in handling information for news purpose in the bilingual context of Hong Kong. Emphasis is put on developing the student’s sensitivity to the difference between the Chinese and English language and awareness of the cultural role of the news translator. Against this background, principles and methods appropriate to a variety of contexts of news translation are introduced.
Check DetailsJOUR3093 Selected Topics in Journalism: Radio Broadcasting
新闻专业选题：电台广播 新闻
This course aims at equipping students with the theory and practice of the radio industry while developing foundational skills in announcing and writing, with an emphasis on diction, expressiveness, and clarity. In this course students will produce a series of radio feature news programs, from planning stages, through writing, and eventually to producing these features. This course teaches radio production techniques, including using the internet for research, story selection and sequencing, contacting subjects, interviewing and follow-up, writing and editing. This course will explore the different forms of radio news as well, finding stories and turning them into good radio. Journalistic ethics and a study of the legal restrictions within which broadcast journalists’ work will be emphasised throughout.
Check DetailsJOUR3123 Broadcast Journalism II
新闻广播 II
This course introduces the styles, formats, and production techniques of the more complex types of radio and television journalism, including long-form reporting, investigative journalism, major event coverage, overseas coverage, and public affairs programmes. Students develop advanced broadcast writing skills; become familiar with the techniques of producing both "live" and taped radio and television news and public affairs programmes; undertake research, planning, and production of major news event coverage and public affairs programmes; and receive training as potential newsroom supervisors or news and public affairs executives.
Check DetailsJOUR3133 Broadcast Journalism III
新闻广播 III
This course aims to further equip students with the knowledge and skills involved in producing a short documentary film. Through lectures, discussions, and practical hands-on sessions and projects, students will continue to learn and refine the application of the techniques required in non-fiction storytelling, filming, and editing sound and images. This is a practical course toward developing a 20-minute documentary FYP.
Check DetailsJOUR3143 Selected Topics in Journalism: Citizen Journalism
新闻专业选题：公民采访与报道
This course introduces students to the role of citizen journalism and its relationship to professional journalism and mainstream media. Citizen journalism is the gathering, writing, editing, production and distribution of news and information by people not trained as professional journalists who collect, disseminate and analyse news on blogs, wikis and sharing websites using tablets, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras and other mobile and wireless technologies. Citizen journalism is also referred to as "alternative media”, an activist form of professional newsgathering and reporting that functions outside mainstream media institutions, often driven by different objectives and ideals and relies on substitute sources of legitimacy than traditional or mainstream journalism. Content from citizen journalists is now increasingly also known as user-generated content. Its relevance for professional journalists and media companies lies in the growing integration of such content onto online mainstream media platforms and the move by professional journalists into citizen journalism.
Check DetailsJOUR3153 Study on Intercultural Communication Issues
跨文化传播研究
This course serves as an introduction to the field of intercultural communication by looking at the practical application of theory and research, particularly in acknowledging the influence of context and power in intercultural interactions. It identifies the key intercultural communication challenges both at home and abroad and how those challenges affect people, their jobs, and their relationships. It focuses on the strategies and skills needed to deal effectively with these challenges in a broad variety of interaction contexts.
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