JB1200 Innføring i journalistikk Emneplan

The following coursework requirements must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

• Coursework 1: Preliminary outline and in-class presentation of the strategic sections (G and S sections, including Executive summary and Situation Overview, from the G-STIC outline in the textbook) of the Marketing plan that students will be submitting for the group-project part of the exam for this course. The presentation shall be maximum 15 minutes. The objective of this work requirement is to ensure that each student group has satisfactory progress toward delivering a complete marketing plan for their chosen project. The work requirement contributes to several key learning outcomes such as knowledge and skills necessary to use analytical frameworks and tools used to understand customers' needs and to solve marketing problems, and more general competencies such as learning to identify, define, and analyze problems - and create solutions.
• Coursework 2: Individual reflection paper from marketing simulation exercise of maximum 800 words. In the individual reflection paper the students are required to discuss whether the learning outcomes from the marketing simulation are relevant to their work with their chosen company's marketing plan. The objective of this work requirement is to ensure that students reflect on important learning outcomes such as putting together their own business and marketing plans that articulate and apply financial, operational, organizational, market, and sales knowledge to identify paths to value creation. To carry out the marketing simulation exercise the students must individually purchase a license. Students who do purchase a license will be given alternative coursework requirement by the teacher.

The students can hand in their coursework in Norwegian or in English.

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline before the student may take the exam. If the coursework requirement is not approved, the student will be given one opportunity to submit an improved version within an extended deadline.

All aids are permitted as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

• Misinformation, disinformation and fake news
• Journalistic verification and fact-checking practice
• Transformations in platforms approaches to fact-checking
• Source criticism
• Visual literacy

Skills

The student

• can perform fact checking
• can critically reflect on concepts like disinformation and fake news
• has advanced skills in source criticism

General competence

The student

• is competent in media and visual literacy
• can critically reflect on the possibilities and limitations of journalists and fact-checkers as conveyers of facts and truths

• Vitenskapsteori
• Forskningsprosessen
• Forskningsdesign og -metoder
• Forskningsetikk
• Datainnsamling, analyse og tolkning av kvantitative og kvalitative data

MAABI4050, MASYK4050, MASYD4050, MAPO4050, MAPSD4050, ABIO6050, KREFT6050, KARD6050, VPSY6050, VPSYD6050, PSYD6050, HEL6050 og BIT6000 er 100 % overlappende.

Eksamen er en individuell drøftingsoppgave der studenten skal reflektere over en journalistfaglig problemstilling knyttet til pensum og arbeidet med arbeidskravene. Omfang 3-4 sider. Skrifttype Arial eller Calibri, størrelse 12 pkt, linjeavstand 1,5. 

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

Bestått / ikke bestått. 

Det benyttes intern og ekstern sensor til sensurering av besvarelsene. Et uttrekk på minst 25 % av besvarelsene sensureres av to sensorer. Karakterene på disse samsensurerte besvarelsene skal danne grunnlag for å fastsette nivå på resten av besvarelsene.

Oscar Westlund