This publication has been compiled with the greatest possible care, but no rights may be derived from its contents | November 2020 Minor ProgrammeMinor International Fall andSpringsemester Journalism International International Minor Programme International Journalism Fall and Spring semester

Are you interested in news If this is the case, you should enroll in media and working as an the minor International Journalism. This minor will help you develop a solid base in international reporter? Would understanding, researching and producing you like to interview refugees, journalism. These skills will be put to use on artists or politicians on current a variety of media platforms. affairs? Are you a curious In the classroom, you’ll work on improving person who likes to tell stories, your English writing skills in various news write, produce audiovisual genres as well as interviewing in English. material and (digital) You’ll be looking at the reporting styles and news angles of various news media, magazines? Would you like to such as the NOS, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC and meet experienced journalists Russia Today. Also, you’ll be analyzing and and take part in two field reporting on today’s conflicts: how they are reporting trips in Europe? represented and misrepresented on the many stages of the global news media. News topics you will report on will range Visual Storytelling from politics to society and urban culture, - 6 EC - Portfolio economics and more. This minor aims to This course focuses on skills needed to connect global political developments to tell a story visually. We cover everything national and local news events. from making video genres to taking and selecting photos, as well as creating and So, if you are a media junkie, with an opinion understanding infographics. You will learn on what is happening around you, and a how to work with Indesign and learn the good level of English skills, you should take basics of magazine layouts. part in the minor International Journalism. English for Journalists Courses - 3 EC - Exam In total you can earn 30 EC for this minor This is the course in which you are trained programme. to use professional English, working on speaking, reading and writing skills. Journalism and Society - 6 EC - Portfolio and Exam Project Im-Press This course focuses on the international - 9 EC - Product media landscape, different reporting genres, Besides the various individual assignments, commercialization of the news and how this minor is a project-based course. reporters are affected by prejudice and (self) Students produce a weekly radio show, censorship. several online magazines, a 64-page print magazine and run a weblog for digital International Institutions storytelling, focusing on current affairs, - 2 EC - Portfolio politics, media and culture. The semester Here you learn about the changing role ends with a photo exhibition and a of international organizations such as the symposium connected to the magazine European Union, the United Nations and theme organised by the students. Please NATO. What do these institutions do and have a look at our website where is the political power concentrated? www.theinternationalangle.com. How are these institutions affected by the international financial and political crises of Field trips the last years? This minor includes several mandatory field trips in the and abroad Media and Conflicts for which you will need to reserve a budget - 4 EC - Podcast and essay of around e 500. During the first 10 weeks This course helps you to understand we visit London, Edinburgh or Dublin based conflicts better by focussing on peace and print and television media, and report from war journalism, national and international the city while we are there. News media conflicts in the news, art and conflict theory. we have visited in the past include: BBC, You will produce a radio podcast on an The Independent, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, ongoing social, ethnic or religious conflict, as Russia Today, CBC and Dutch correspondents well as writing an essay on the same topic. for NOS, , Nieuwsuur and . In period two we have a full reporting week in which we work from a European city (Istanbul, Madrid, Barcelona, Athens, Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb etc.) as foreign correspondents. 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