ALJ330 - Developing a Journalism Portfolio 1

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: Nil
Prerequisite:

Students must have completed either ALJ111 or ALJ112
and either ALJ218 or ALJ221

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: ALJ302, ALJ303
Study commitment

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.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 3-hour seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - online

Independent and collaborative online learning activities (3-hour per week equivalence)

Content

Discover what it's like to produce journalistic stories for an online news website. You will be writing, producing, researching, interviewing and editing a number of your own stories that will showcase your knowledge of, and skills in, news writing, photojournalism, audience engagement and video. You will meet deadlines and discuss your work with fellow students in a newsroom-like environment. This capstone unit requires you to draw on the knowledge and skills you have been learning throughout your journalism studies and cement them by putting them into practice. You will leave this unit with a portfolio of work you can use to begin your career. You will also reflect on the newsgathering and production process.

Unit Fee Information

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