Critical Analysis of Mediatexts
Course code
KOA6039.FK
old course code
KOA6039
Course title in Estonian
Uudis
Course title in English
Critical Analysis of Mediatexts
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Taavi Eilat (language of instruction:Estonian)
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The aim of the news course is to teach students to analyze media texts, to find topics of new value independently, to communicate with sources for the development of these topics and to write well-focused, comprehensible and linguistically and technically correct news stories.
Brief description of the course
Learning activities take the form of seminars, where participation is compulsory. The participant of the course must complete the obligatory literature for each seminar, the reading of which is checked by a test, and a graded homework must be submitted by the deadline for each seminar. Detailed instructions for both will be given in the workshop.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the following concepts and is able to relate them to media texts in practice: news threshold, criteria of news value, objectivity of the news, essence of the article, focus of the article, editorial, slippery news;
- knows and is able to distinguish between the main genres of journalism: news, essay history, reportage, opinion story and editorial;
- knows the general principles of the structure of the news and knows the structure of the news story - the reverse pyramid;
- masters the simplest techniques of reporter work, such as finding a topic, describing events, working with sources;
- is able to write news that would be published in a press release;
- is able to see the structural problems of news stories and is able to suggest solutions to improve them.
- knows the following concepts and is able to relate them to media texts in practice: news threshold, criteria of news value, objectivity of the news, essence of the article, focus of the article, editorial, slippery news;
- knows and is able to distinguish between the main genres of journalism: news, essay history, reportage, opinion story and editorial;
- knows the general principles of the structure of the news and knows the structure of the news story - the reverse pyramid;
- masters the simplest techniques of reporter work, such as finding a topic, describing events, working with sources;
- is able to write news that would be published in a press release;
- is able to see the structural problems of news stories and is able to suggest solutions to improve them.
Teacher
Taavi Eilat
The course is a prerequisite
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