COMM 4730*
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Documentary |
3 U
This course explores the many varieties of documentary forms, from TV news and magazine features (both hard and soft) to stand-alone documentaries produced for television and film. Students groups will produce one short documentary during the semester.
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| COMM 5640 |
Online and Mobile Journalism |
3 U; 3 Sem.
The course examines the influence of online technologies on journalism from editorial, technological, economic, and social perspectives. The emphasis is on the advanced technologies involved in online news publishing and management skills in editorial, financial and technical fields required of online journalists.
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| COMM 5641 |
Infographics and Data Visualization |
3 U; 3 Sem.
This course explores data-based storytelling using charts, diagrams, maps, and other visualization techniques in professional communication. It covers theoretical topics such as principles of problem modeling, graphic design, and data processing. Additionally, practical issues like media form limitations and workflow challenges are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on ethical considerations and common pitfalls in data visualization.
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| COMM 5660 |
Photography for Journalists |
3 U; 3 Sem.
In this course, students will learn news photography, photographic techniques for news reportage and the application of these techniques to foster visual communication. Photo elements, image editing and various visual approaches to news reportage will be examined.
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| COMM 5670 |
Broadcast Journalism |
3 U; 3 Sem.
Theories and techniques of reporting, writing, editing, presenting and production of radio and television news will be introduced in this course. Students will acquire the essential skills to produce news magazines and bulletins for the electronic media.
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| COMM 5680 |
Radio Studio Production |
3 U; 3 Sem.
This course introduces students to the role of radio broadcasting in the multimedia environment. Theories and practices of studio production of radio programmes including information, entertainment, documentaries and other programmes in new formats will be examined.
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| COMM 5690 |
Feature Writing |
3 U; 3 Sem.
This course seeks to instill students with the necessary skills to generate ideas for feature articles, compile information that is essential for the composition of these pieces, so as to be able to compose a wide variety of different features. Moreover, the course also aims at helping students to understand the ecology of the mass media from the views of a contributing journalist, both in terms of how to locate an outlet for their work, but also in how their work might (and would) become not only a tool with which readers understand the world, and whether their work would contribute to the “reproduction” of a hegemonic, “common-sensical” perspective of the state of the world.
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| COMM 5725 |
Multistakeholder Decision Making and Media Practice |
3 U; 3 Sem.
The course responds to the multistakeholder ecosystem, with human, more than human, machines, systems, institutions, and organisational stakeholders who engage in decision making around critical social and political questions. It introduces students to multistakeholderism as a concept, and engaging with how different actors within the ecosystem need to be identified, approached, and negotiated with, to see the complexity of global decision making practices.
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| COMM 5946 |
Multimedia Design in the Age of AI |
3 U; 3 Sem.
This course introduces students to the principles and techniques of multimedia design. Students will be required to create their own multimedia projects from concept development to hands-on production by using design software. AI features are also introduced to facilitate the creative process from ideation to production. The quality and effectiveness of multimedia projects will be examined.
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| COMM 5980 |
New Media Ecology |
3 U; 3 Sem.
This course introduces students to the role of content flow and value chain model in the information industry. It covers various topics such as content creation, selling, distribution, syndication, consumption, content economics, business models, related technology and copyright protection issues faced by different information industries in the new media ecology.
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