Course Code: 121292
Course Name: Conspectus of Journalism
Course Type: Specialty Course
Periods: 32
Credits: 2
Target Students: Students majoring in Journalism and relative majors
Assessment: Examination
Conspectus of Journalism is a basic course of Journalism and Communication in Universities, and indispensable in all relative majors of journalism. With news communication phenomena objectively existing in human society as research object, this course focuses on the interaction between news media and human society, investigating the generation and development of news communication, and the basic regularity of news operation. Through learning this course, students will understand news activities especially the regularity and effects of news operation as a whole, research news history and master related skills of news operation. This course primarily helps students learn the related theoretic knowledge of Journalism and master skills of news communication to work better in this field after graduation. This course mainly includes: conspectus of Journalism, the differences between news and publicity, news interview, professional ethics of news writing, news ethics, the development of news history, etc.