Journalism in International Relations

Bachelor 2021/2022

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Elective course

Area of studies: International Relations

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Where: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 3 year, 3, 4 module

Mode of studies: distance learning

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Tina Berezhnaya

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 32

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course Journalism in international relations is oriented toward students in international relations and is focused on providing general knowledge and understanding of current media system and particularly its role within international relations, foreign policy etc.

Learning Objectives

To form the general understanding of media system and the role of the journalism within it;
To provide some practical aspects of the journalistic job;
To form the theoretical understanding of the main approaches and theories about the media and policy (including the foreign policy).
To form the general understanding of the international journalism as a soft power.
To provide practical and methodological skills to analyze the journalistic work in international context

Expected Learning Outcomes

Orient within main fields of journalism as profession
To be able to analyze media coverage and media outlets
Understand professional division of labor in journalism and role of journalists in the society
Understand the place of media within international relations

Course Contents

Media system and journalism in the society
Journalism as profession
Interrelations of journalism and political sphere
History of political journalism in the societies
Theories of global media and their critique
Journalism as soft power in international relations
Fake news, propaganda and hybrid wars: the role of the journalism.
Methods to analyse journalistic production

Assessment Elements

Seminars activity
Final essay

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 4th module
The grade is 0.05Attendance + 0.50SeminarHomework + 0.45FinalProject

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

An introduction to journalism : essential techniques and background knowledge, Rudin, R., 2002
Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity : The Information Age - Economy, Society, and Culture, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=470449.
Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics, Hallin, D. C., 2004
Hard power, soft power and the future of transatlantic relations, , 2006
Key concepts in media and communications, Jones, P., 2011
Lie, J. (2013). South Korean Literature in the Age of the Korean Wave: Soft Power, Literary Value, and Cultural Policy in South Korea. Korea Observer, 44(4), 647–668. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=poh&AN=94280503
New as it happens : an introduction to journalism, Lamble, S., 2013
Smith, Bruce Lannes, and Harold D. Lasswell. Propaganda, Communication and Public Opinion, Princeton University Press, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4071105.
The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society, Habermas, J., 2008

Recommended Additional Bibliography

GILBOA, E. (2005). The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations. Political Communication, 22(1), 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600590908429

Course Syllabus