Courses Handbook 2010

9363 (v.9) Journalism- Television Current Affairs 397


Area: Department of Journalism
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 3964 (v.13) Journalism- Television News 215 or any previous version
Syllabus: An introduction to the theory and practice of short format, TV current affairs. It allows students to extend their journalistic and technical skills to produce longer stories for television that permit more substantive investigation of the subject matter. Working in groups, students undertake research, planning, interviewing, shooting, scripting and editing of their stories. Students also examine and analyse current affairs-style programs on Australian TV to evaluate and assess their individual approaches to sound journalism, story telling and program making.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 100703 Journalism
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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