MEDIA PRACTICUM: REPORTING CONFLICT (CM5074)

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Media Practicum: Reporting Conflict is as close to a real-life newsroom experience as most students will come during their time at university. This course prepares students to play the role of journalists covering an international crisis. A weekly class will teach you the multimedia skills and the journalistic skills (press briefings, reporting, broadcasting and social media) needed to cover a simulation of military intervention organized and operated by the French War College (Ecole de Guerre) with civilian partners.

Code: 
CM5074
Name: 
MEDIA PRACTICUM: REPORTING CONFLICT
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=New Student - Grad OR College Level=Graduate OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to perform in a real-time newsroom context in a senior or leadership position in a team and under time pressure.
  2. Students will show the ability to shape the news output of a media team via an executive position in a media team (text, photo, video, social media) or as a member of the chief editor team, or as newsroom manager.
  3. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of a fictional, but realistic, news scenario and its implication for choices in reporting.

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2025 CM5074 MEDIA PRACTICUM: REPORTING CONFLICT

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