Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Journalistic Ethics

Journalistic Ethics
6
9290
2
Second semester
FB
Main language of instruction: English

Teaching staff


Dra. RAMÍREZ SIMON, Wendy Maria - wmramirez@uic.es

By e-mail at wmramirez@uic.es

By appointment: ask for one personally on by e-mail.

At Humanities Faculty Teacher's Lounge

Introduction

The ethics of communication has not found it easy to make its way. Sometimes has focused on distilling (too) simple behaviorl rules to replace the need to reflect and decide personally. Others are lost in theoretical and abstract discussions that have ended provoking skepticism among professionals. While it is an applied knowledge, ethics of communication faces the problem of how can values and ideals be applied to a daily praxis, full of circumstances and complexities.

Pre-course requirements

None.

Objectives

This course aims to help harmonize theoretical and practical perspectives through combined systematic access to contents of the communication and real cases and applications. It enables students to know how to analyze business situations and personal actions, so they get the habit of being willing to give a coherent answer for their own actions, to argue in terms of rights and duties, try to act in conscience and expose to the public or members of his team the origin of their decisions.

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 01 CG - Capacity for self-evaluation and professional order
  • 02 CG - The ability to learn and act an autonomously and responsibly
  • 05 CG - The ability to develop an ethical attitude
  • 08 CG - The ability to reflect and memorize.

Learning outcomes of the subject

The students will:

  • Gain insight into various ethical schools of thought and be better prepared to autonomously and responsibly address the ethical dilemmas that their profession will inevitably present.
  • Understand the moral processes inherent in individuals, social groups, and society at large. They will also be better equipped to handle situations in their professional work where the human factor predominates.
  • In addition to acquiring knowledge and skills, they will learn useful protocols for working in the field of communication, which is heavily influenced by economic and business dynamics and requirements.
  • Embrace knowledge and attention to audiences as fundamental aspects of their professional perspective.

Furthermore, the students will:

  • Develop the ability to observe reality through journalistic criteria.
  • Be well-versed in various ethical schools of thought and better prepared to autonomously and responsibly confront the ethical challenges posed by the practice of journalism.
  • Acquire knowledge of the components that shape journalistic organizations, as well as their economic structure.

Syllabus

Introduction to Ethics.

Lesson 1. What is ethics

Lesson 2. The Good

Lesson 3. The Ends

Lesson 4. Freedom

Lesson 5. Virtues

Lesson 6. Practical Virtues

Lesson 7. Justice

 

Teaching and learning activities

In person



TRAINING ACTIVITY ECTS CREDITS
Lectures. In lectures, lecturers/professors not only transmit content or knowledge, but also, and above all else, attitudes, motivation, skills and values, etc. They also ensure that participants can express their opinions and arguments to the other students. 2
Seminar. This activity will consist of taking an in-depth look at specific up-to-date topics in a monographic manner-in some cases these topics will have been debated socially-, via active work in small groups. 2
Practical workshop. A highly practical working activity, where students can acquire skills that are practical or also theoretical (intellectual skills, logical skills, critical skills, intellectual learning skills, study skills, quoting skills, etc). 2

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person



During the course students will turn in 4-5 workshops which will constitute one grade. (workshops part)

At the end of the course they will take a final exam of all the theoretical content of the course, which will constitute another grade. (theoretical part)

(If a student failed the workshops avegarge, they can take a practical part of the exam as well to make up for it.)

Students must have at least a 5 in each part in order to pass the course.

The exam will constitue 60% of the final grade, and the workshop average the remaining 40%.

 

*To pass the second call and subsequent calls, students will have to be evaluated again of the parts they have failed.

Bibliography and resources

See each lesson in the course's intranet.

Print version