This course provides students with all of the elements necessary to learn what it means to be a corresondent in Japan and how the world of Japanese functions.
This course provides students with the tools to gather information and quotes and to mediate between competing views. How does a journalist gather information? The course will put students in the shoes of a journalist, ask them how to write like a journalist and to ponder questions of impartiality and accuracy. The aim is to allow students to experience the work of a reporter and prompt them to reassess some of their commonsense assumptions.
This course offers hands-on experience in all aspects of journalism.
Week 1: Introductions, course and assessment outline.
Week 2: Confessions of a foreign correspondent
Week 3: Doing a reporter’s job – finding an assignment, interviewing
Week 4: Writing an article
Week 5: Visit to Foreign Correspondents’ Club (schedule permitting)
Week 6: Feedback/preparation for Greenpeace visit
Week 7: Visit to Greenpeace
Week 8: Visit to Suisansho
Week 9: Debriefing and writing up our visits
Week 10: Consultation/feedback
Final Weeks Practical applications of everything that has been learned.
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Aを履修した学生がBを履修してもよい。学生の達成度に従って別課題を与える。
人数制限をする場合があるので、1回目の授業には必ず出席すること。
Assessment will be made on the basis of class attendance and participation, and the nature and level of work accomplished.
連絡先:世界文明センター(内線3892)