(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate intermediate level news production skills as appropriate for the medium and context.
2. Conduct increasingly advanced journalistic investigations, including those requiring critical interpretation of information, and integrate this into the creation of a range of journalistic products for different audiences.
3. Reflect critically on the practice of journalism making connections to key issues, concepts and debates and explain the importance of ethics to the work of a journalist.
4. Draw on research to present coherent and increasingly sophisticated arguments in the context of one or more related specialist areas of journalism, media or communication scholarship.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Technical Skills: The ability to produce news content, using industry standard equipment and software, for a variety of audiences and media
2. Communication Skills: Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.
3. Critical Skills: The ability to conduct journalistic research tasks, including the ability to critically evaluate information and seek alternative perspectives.
4. Personal skills: The ability to work independently and as a member of a team, to prioritise tasks and work effectively to deadlines and briefs. Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility including an understanding of journalism ethics.
Achievement is aligned to the learning outcomes of each module, so students will be assessed through a variety of methods dependent on the module and the level of the programme. At level 2 they may include essays, practical work in audio, video and digital formats, reflective pieces and industry simulation exercises.
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