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2024 unit information
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
Burwood: 1 x 2-hour seminar per week.Geelong: 1 x 4-hour on-campus seminar (Week 2, 5, 8), 1 x 1.25-hour online seminar (Week 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11).
Online independent and collaborative learning activities (1 x 2-hour per week equivalence)
*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.
Build your skills and knowledge of multimedia news reporting. In this unit, you will produce your own news stories that cover issues that interest you. These stories will cross media platforms and will include a written news story, a photojournalism piece and a video news package for broadcast. You'll also hone your skills in, and knowledge of, news values, researching, interviewing and editing. You will meet deadlines and expand your knowledge of the social, professional and legal contexts journalists work within.
Identify, develop and research news stories; arrange and carry out news interviews
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Write a news story in direct, effective, engaging style with strict attention to factual accuracy as well as accuracy in punctuation, spelling and grammar
Engage with community issues and social media tools as per discipline specific needs for sourcing and reporting news stories
GLO3: Digital literacy
Explain the legal and ethical framework that journalists operate within Australia
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship
Use a range of digital technologies to record, edit, produce and present news stories
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via ALJ112 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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