Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
5515WESTMC-JAN-PAR
Aims
1. To critically evaluate professional and scholarly accounts of the development of popular journalism.
2. To examine approaches to research in professional journalistic practice.
3. To introduce students to basic writing skills in journalistic genres appropriate to print and online journalism.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Offer a critical and theoretically informed evaluation of a given aspect of popular
journalism.
2.
Demonstrate appropriate research skills for journalistic practice.
3.
Write in a variety of journalistic styles and demonstrate an understanding of the
contexts of production and consumption inherent in journalistic practice.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Writing about music journalism - issues and debates; The music press; Analysing reviews; Digital Writing and blogs; Ethics and regulation; Feature writing; Field research.
Assessments
Essay
Portfolio