FOTOPRAK Internship period Course description

Tildeling av praksisplass forutsetter at alle tidligere semestre og eksamen(er) er bestått

Gjennom praksisperioden skal studentene få praktisk erfaring med selvstendig, fotojournalistisk arbeid i en redaksjon. De skal gjennom perioden utvikle evnen til kritisk evaluering av eget arbeid.

Ingen forkunnskapskrav, men vi gjør oppmerksom på at bachelorstudiet i fotojournalistikk har i tillegg generelle progresjonsbestemmelser: Normalt må hvert studieår være bestått for at studentene skal kunne fortsette studiet i neste studieår.​

The students shall develop further knowledge and skills acquired in the previous term, and they shall have a good command of the news reportage as a genre on distinct media platforms (web, tv, radio and print media). The students shall have theoretical knowledge about important sectors in society, like politics, court, economy and working life, and shall be able to work journalistically on these subjects.

JB1200 Introduction to Journalism must be passed.

The course is to a large extent based on active learning. The students work in the following ways:

• Individual reading of the curriculum.
• Seminars and plenary lectures.
• Production for online paper, radio, tv and print media.
• Presentation of group projects.
• Solving individual and group based tasks, with feedback in groups.

During the course, the students are required to carry out five mandatory tasks, which make up the course requirements. The tasks are practical and theoretical exercises related to the teaching and curriculum texts, with the purpose of strengthening the students' understanding of journalism as a profession. Some of them are solved in groups, others individually. The content and deadlines of the tasks will be published in Canvas.

Four of the tasks are connected to the so-called media rotations, in which the students produce news for all four media platforms. The students are required to take part in the newsroom activities and to acquaint themselves with the respective production and editing tools. Therefore, participation in the media rotations is mandatory. Exceptions are made only for students who are documented sick or have other lawful reasons for absence.

The tasks are approved by teachers throughout the term, and at least four out of the five tasks have to be approved before the student is allowed to take her exam. Students who do not pass a given task on their first try, are allowed to hand in an improved version once.

Taking part in the feedback sessions is mandatory. Students who are sick or have another lawful reason for absence, can negotiate an extended deadline for the task with the teacher. If the student does not keep the deadline given in the course plan or the extended deadline agreed upon with the teacher, the student is not allowed to hand in her task and can as a consequence not take her exam.

The exam is a three day home exam consisting of two parts: a theoretical/analytical, curriculum-based paper and one of the course requirements that the student has carried out during the term. The exam shall be written in Norwegian, as the course deals with news journalism in Norwegian. Other Scandinavian languages may be accepted by application but only for the theoretical/analytical paper. The exam is given a joint evaluation. Candidates who do not pass or have lawful reasons for absence, may sign up for a new and postponed exam.

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

The exam is graded by letters from A to E for passed and F for failed.