Special English for Journalism and Communication

1.Brief Course Information

Course Code: 206582
Course Name: Special English for Journalism and Communication
Course Type: Specialty course
Periods: 32
Credits: 2
Target Students: Undergraduates majoring in Journalism and related majors
Assessment: Evaluation

2.Brief Course Introduction

    Special English for Journalism and Communication is one of the indispensable specialty courses of Journalism. Theoretically speaking, this course helps students to directly absorb foreign advanced achievement and improve their academic proficiency so as to cultivate a batch of professional translation talents. Practically speaking, special practice of English listening, reading and speaking, and news English translation will make up public English teaching, enrich the English language environment, and lay firm foundation for English interviewing, writing and editing, and for obtaining the latest news from foreign e-media and websites. This course mainly aims to introduce its related theories and help them to master news interviewing, writing and editing to do better in news report for foreign affairs. This course mainly includes: media type, characteristics and differences of news genre, news titles, news lead, writing of various news genres, foreign media and news agencies, media terms, distinguishing and analyzing of media type, etc. Except of introducing news titles, various news genres, glossaries, grammar, similarities and differences of Chinese and English news style, this course also contains the differences among special English for newspaper, periodicals, internet, etc.