Model curricula for journalism education for developing countries ...
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Readings <strong>for</strong> Week 27: Chapter 12 from Roux (2005) [or similar]. Stiglitz (2006).<br />
Week 26<br />
Globalisation.<br />
Readings <strong>for</strong> Week 27: Chapter 17 from Vaitilingam (2001). Stiglitz (2006).<br />
Week 27<br />
The role of international institutions: World Bank, International Monetary Fund,<br />
World Trade Organisation, aid agencies.<br />
Readings <strong>for</strong> Week 28 and 29: Sen (1987).<br />
Week 28<br />
The problem of poverty.<br />
Week 29<br />
Pause <strong>for</strong> reflection: <strong>journalism</strong>, globalization and poverty.<br />
Assignment: Write a 1,000-word news commentary feature describing the<br />
relationship between poverty and globalization in your country.<br />
Week 30<br />
Revision and final exam.<br />
Grading and assessment protocols<br />
Students will be assessed through weekly <strong>journalism</strong> assignments, one major<br />
<strong>journalism</strong> production, a half-year exam and a final exam. The major <strong>journalism</strong><br />
production should take the <strong>for</strong>m of a 2,000 word news feature on a business or<br />
economics topic.<br />
Weekly assignments: 20%<br />
Major assignment: 30%<br />
Mid-year exam: 20%<br />
Final exam: 30%<br />
Contributed by Robert Brand, Pearson Chair of Economics Journalism, School of<br />
Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa.
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