Students will develop and achieve the following skills and learning outcomes:



General skills (GS):



GS01 - Express oneself fluently and effectively orally and in writing, knowing how to use the linguistic resources that are most appropriate to the different media.

GS02 - Search, select, prioritise and analyse different sources, adapting their contents to narrative forms and strategies.

GS03 - Develop skills and apply techniques, technologies and resources to communication and information processes.

GS04 - Correctly design the formal and aesthetic aspects of contents in accordance with the characteristics of the different media.

GS05 - Devise, plan, execute and successfully manage informative or communicative projects.

GS06 - Apply the main journalistic genres and formats to news reporting using the language of each of the media.

GS07 - Analyse, interpret and explain social facts and processes based on the knowledge and methodologies of the social sciences (Sociology, Economics, Law, Contemporary History) in the context of the work of the media.

GS08 - Acquire knowledge and understand the meaning and relevance of theories, concepts and methodologies in the interdisciplinary context of communication.



Transversal Skills (TS):



TS1 - Autonomy and self-regulation.

TS5 - Information management and digital citizenship.

TS7 - Critical thinking.

TS8 - Teamwork.



Specific Skills (SS):



SS1CC01 - Reflect, understand and identify the main theories, ideas and concepts of historical, economic and linguistic thought, applied to the knowledge of communicative phenomena.

SS1CC02 - Apply concepts, techniques and methodological procedures to the identification of documentary sources, analysis of cases and problems of information and communication.

SS1CC03 - Analyse, interpret and critically assess texts, genres, formats and phenomena related to creation, information and written and audiovisual communication.

SS1CC05 - Develop strategies for oral, written and audiovisual expression and communication appropriate to the different genres and formats of the different media.

SS1CC06 - Develop skills and abilities for active participation, collaboration and co-responsibility in teamwork.



Learning Outcomes (LO):



LO1. Students can identify and distinguish each of the genres.

LO2. Students know the origin and evolution of the different news genres.

LO3. Students clearly differentiate information from opinion in a journalistic text.

LO4. Students recognise the main focuses of current news.

LO5. Students Critically consume a wide range of written media with different treatments and editorial lines.

LO6. Students associate without difficulty the chosen topics with the documentary sources needed to elaborate an informative content.

LO7. Students can search, select and obtain personal sources using professional criteria.

LO8. Students are able to look for alternatives when the search for personal sources does not obtain the expected results.

LO9. Students are able to choose the right type of news genre for each type of news event.

LO10. Students can recognise and handle appropriately the common stylistic features of journalistic news language.

LO11. Students recognise and handles appropriately the specific stylistic features of each of the main news genres: news, interview, report and chronicle.

LO12. Students are able to organise, distribute and assume teamwork to obtain information through personal and documentary sources.

LO13. Students are able to work in a team in the documentation, preparation and subsequent public presentation of a topic related to current affairs.

Theoretical syllabus:

Introduction. Journalistic language and style

1.1. Journalism and style

1.2. Characteristics of informative style

1.3. Practical stylistic rules

2. Journalistic genres

2.1. Origins and definition

2.2. Typology of journalistic genres

2.3. General considerations

3. The interview

3.1 Preparing, developing and writing the interview

3.2. Types of interviews

4. The reportage

4.1 General characteristics

4.2 Title and first paragraph

4.3. Body of the report

4.4. Closing of the report

5. The chronicle

5.1. Basic features of the chronicle

5.2. Types of chronicle



Practical Topics:

1. Elaboration of an interview in direct style.

2. Elaboration of an interview in indirect style.

3. Elaboration of a report on a topic defined by the teaching staff.

4. Production of a report with a free topic.

5. Elaboration of a chronicle on a topic defined by the teaching staff.

6. Production of a chronicle with a free topic.

Face-to-face tasks: attendance at lectures; laboratory practical work; presentation of work in the classroom; attendance at exams.



Non-face-to-face tasks: study of topics and exam preparation; information research and preparation of assignments/projects; reading and critical comments.

In the case of continuous assessment:



50% of the final mark will be obtained from the practical exercises worked in class throughout the term. Not all exercises will have the same value in the final mark for the practical part. Serious spelling mistakes will lower the grade. Plagiarism will be sanctioned with failing the course. It is compulsory to hand in all the practical exercises.



It is possible that the practical may be assessed in two parts. In this case, the practical exercises submitted will account for 45% of the final mark and a grammar exam will be taken, which must be passed independently and which will account for 15%.



The remaining 50% will be distributed between the final theory exam and a specific section to assess knowledge of current affairs. Part of the section on knowledge of current affairs may be assessed through group presentations.



The final grade will be the result of the sum of each of the sections. It is necessary to pass all three parts (theoretical, practical and current affairs) independently in order to pass the course.



In the event of failing one of the three parts of the subject, the mark for the part passed will be kept until the extraordinary exam. In no case will this mark be saved for the following year.





In the case of the final assessment



In accordance with article 8.3 of the Regulations Governing Student Assessment, students who wish to abandon continuous assessment and take the final exam must submit a written waiver of continuous assessment to the lecturers responsible for the subject within the first nine weeks of the start of the term.



The final assessment test will consist of the following activities:



- Theoretical exam (30%)

- Current affairs test (10%)

- Practical work, exercises, cases or problems (60%).



For this last part, students will have to hand in three practical assignments (an interview, a chronicle and a report) on the day of the exam.



In the case of students taking the final exam, it will be sufficient not to take the exam set on the official date of the assessment tests.

Basic bibliography

BARANDIARAN. A. (2009): Postkronikak. Donostia: Elkar.

BEZUNARTEA, O.; DEL HOYO, M.; MARTÍNEZ, F. (1998). 21 Lecciones de reporterismo. Leioa: Universidad del País Vasco.

BEREZIARTUA, G. (2019): Ez gara neutralak. Lasarte-Oria: Argia.

CASASÚS, J. M.; NÚÑEZ LADEVEZE, L. (1991). Estilo y géneros periodísticos. Barcelona: Ariel.

CASSANY, Daniel (1995). La cocina de la escritura. Barcelona: Anagrama.

DÍAZ NOCI, Javier (2000). Informazio-generoak. Bilbo: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

DÍAZ NOCI, J.; SALAVERRÍA ALIAGA, Ramón (coords.) (2003). Manual de Redacción Ciberperiodística. Barcelona: Ariel.

ECHEVARRIA LLOMBART, B. (1998). Las W's del reportaje. Valencia: Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU.

In-depth bibliography

CANTAVELLA, J.; SERRANO, F. (2004). Redacción para periodistas: informar e interpretar. Barcelona: Ariel.
EFE AGENTZIA (2000): Diccionario de español urgente. Madril: Editorial SM.
GÓMEZ MOMPART, J. L. (1982). Los titulares en prensa. Bartzelona: Mitre.
GRIJELMO, Á. (2003). El estilo del periodista. Madril: Santillana.
MARTÍN VIVALDI, G. (1987). Géneros periodísticos. Madril: Paraninfo.
MARTÍNEZ ALBERTOS, J. L. (1974). Redacción periodística, los estilos y los géneros en la prensa escrita. Madril: ATE.
MARTÍNEZ ALBERTOS, J. L. (2001). Curso General de Redacción Periodística. Madril: Paraninfo.
QUESADA, M. (1984). La entrevista: obra creativa. Bartzelona: Mitre.
ESTILO LIBURUAK: El País (Ediciones El País); El Mundo (Unidad Editorial); Abc (Ariel); Berria (Berria).

Journals

- Anàlisi.
- Comunicación y Sociedad.
- Doxa.
- El profesional de la información.
- Euskonews.
- Jakin.
- Revista Latina de Comunicación Social.
- RIEV.
- Textual & Visual Media.
- Trípodos.
- Uztaro.
- Zer.