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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Editoria e giornalismo - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Advanced English for Publishing and Journalism (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S008069
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH
Period
CuCi IIA, CuCi IIB
Learning outcomes
Advanced English for publishing and journalism (m)
The course aims to provide students with specialist skills and methodologies in English for Journalism, in the wide sense of the term. At the end of the course, students will be competent in the history of newsreporting in English-speaking countries, from its early stages to the present time, touching on ""mainstream"", ""unmediated"" and ""multimodal journalism"" as well. Students will also be able to produce journalistic pieces with special reference to ""news reports"", ""features"" and ""commentaries"", as well as texts aimed at radio journalism.
At the end of the course students will have acquired the necessary tools to maintain a positive attitude towards learning so as to keep themselves regularly updated in the field.
Program
- History of journalism: the basics
- From monomodal to multimodal/multisemiotic journalism
- News reporting
- Features
- Commentaries and editorials
- Subediting
- Broadcast journalism
- Interviewing
- Freelancing
- Loaded language in journalism
- Journalistic jargon
Since this course requires active participation, non-attenders are strongly advised to choose a different course.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Fairclough, Norman | Media Discourse (Edizione 1) | Edward Arnold | 1995 | 9780340632222 | |
| Facchinetti Roberta, Nicholas Brownlees, Birte Bös, Udo Fries | News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis (Edizione 2) | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | 2015 | 978-1-4438-8036-7 | |
| van Dijk, Teun | News as Discourse (Edizione 1) | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | 1988 | 9781136471575 | |
| Bednarek, Monika and Helen Caple | News Discourse (Edizione 2) | Continuum | 2018 | 1441147998 |
Examination Methods
Oral exam.
Students will be questioned on the texts analysed during the lessons and on the journalistic pieces they have written during the course. The questions will focus on the following topics:
- History of journalism: the basics
- From monomodal to multimodal/multisemiotic journalism
- News reporting
- Features
- Commentaries and editorials
- Subediting
- Broadcast journalism
- Interviewing
- Freelancing
- Loaded language in journalism
- Journalistic jargon
