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INTERNATIONAL MINOR PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM SEMESTER 1 AND 2 This publication has been compiled with the greatest possible care, but no rights may be derived from its contents | July 2019 CREATING TOMORROW INTERNATIONAL MINOR PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM ARE YOU INTERESTED IN NEWS MEDIA If this is the case, you should enroll in the minor International Journalism. This minor will help AND WORKING AS AN INTERNATIONAL you develop a solid base in understanding, REPORTER? WOULD YOU LIKE TO researching and producing journalism. These skills will be put to use on a variety of media INTERVIEW REFUGEES, ARTISTS OR platforms. POLITICIANS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS? ARE In the classroom, you’ll work on improving your YOU A CURIOUS PERSON WHO LIKES English writing skills in various news genres as TO TELL STORIES, WRITE, PRODUCE well as interviewing in English. You’ll be looking at the reporting styles and news angles of AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL AND (DIGITAL) various news media, such as the NOS, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC and Russia Today. Also, you’ll be MAGAZINES? WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET analyzing and reporting on today’s conflicts: EXPERIENCED JOURNALISTS AND TAKE how they are represented and misrepresented on the many stages of the global news media. PART IN TWO FIELD REPORTING TRIPS IN EUROPE? News topics you will report on will range from politics to society and urban culture, economics and more. This minor aims to connect global English for Journalists - 3 EC - Exam political developments to national and local This is the course in which you are trained to use news events. professional English, working on speaking, reading and writing skills. So, if you are a media junkie, with an opinion on what is happening around you, and a good Project Im-Press - 9 EC - Product level of English skills, you should take part in the Besides the various individual assignments, this minor International Journalism. minor is a project-based course. Students produce a weekly radio show, several online magazines, COURSES a 64-page print magazine and run a weblog for Journalism and Society - 6 EC - Portfolio and digital storytelling, focusing on current affairs, Exam politics, media and culture. The semester ends with This course focuses on the international a photo exhibition and a symposium connected to media landscape, different reporting genres, the magazine theme organised by the students. commercialization of the news and how Please have a look at our website reporters are affected by prejudice and (self) www.theinternationalangle.com. censorship. In total you can earn 30 EC for the minor. International Institutions - 2 EC - Portfolio Here you learn about the changing role of FIELD TRIPS international organizations such as the European This minor includes several mandatory field trips Union, the United Nations and NATO. What do in the Netherlands and abroad for which you these institutions do and where is the political will need to reserve a budget of around 500 power concentrated? How are these institutions EURO. During the first 10 weeks we visit London, affected by the international financial and Edinburgh or Dublin based print and television political crises of the last years? media, and report from the city while we are there. News media we have visited in the past include: Media and Conflicts - 4 EC - Podcast and essay BBC, The Independent, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, This course helps you to understand conflicts Russia Today, CBC and Dutch correspondents better by focussing on peace and war journalism, for NOS, De Volkskrant, Nieuwsuur and Het national and international conflicts in the news, Financieele Dagblad. art and conflict theory. You will produce a radio In period two we have a full reporting week in podcast on an ongoing social, ethnic or religious which we work from a European city (Istanbul, conflict, as well as writing an essay on the same Madrid, Barcelona, Athens, Vienna, Budapest, topic. Zagreb etc.) as foreign correspondents. Visual Storytelling - 6 EC - Portfolio FURTHER INFORMATION This course focuses on skills needed to tell a We work together with Free Press Unlimited, which story visually. We cover everything from making runs several projects supporting media freedom in video genres to taking and selecting photos, as Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This well as creating and understanding infographics. minor is conducted fully in English and is labeled You will learn how to work with Indesign and ‘excellente minor’ by the Amsterdam University of learn the basics of magazine layouts. Applied Sciences. SOME OF OUR GUEST LECTURERS Erik Mouthaan RTL nieuws correspondent Hans Jaap Melissen Award winning war New York Journalist Clay Eltzroth Bloomberg New York Martina Powell Amnesty International Austria Leon Willems Director of Free Press Unlimited, Arne Doornebal Freelance reporter and former which supports media in developing democracies correspondent in Uganda and Rwanda Judit Neurink Correspondent Middle East for Arnout Brouwers Chief Opinion Section Trouw, author of several books on Isis, Kurdistan and former correspondent in Moscow for and Iraq De Volkskrant Max Westerman Freelance tv-reporter in Rio de Katarina Bader Journalist and lecturer in online Janeiro and former correspondent of RTL Nieuws journalism at Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart in New York Gökhan Tan Reporter and photo journalist and Hub Brown Associate Dean at the Newhouse instructor at Istanbul Bilgi University School at Syracuse University Nicole Robbers Picture editor at Connor Ennis media editor NY Times NRC Handelsblad and NRC.Next Piet de Blaauw Reporter at KRO-NCRV Ruken Baris Freelance journalist and Media Brandpunt Programme Coordinator in Turkey and Caucasus Andrew Keen British-American entrepreneur Alvaro Bootello Lecturer Loyola University and critical author on social media New Orleans Sheila Paylan Associate legal officer at the Paula van Akkeren Graphic designer at International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in NRC Handelsblad/NRC.Next Arusha, Tanzania MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS MINOR PROGRAMME CAN BE OBTAINED FROM: Drs. Ronald Kroon Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) P.O. box 32 1000 AA Amsterdam Visiting address: Rhijnspoorplein 1 1091 GC Amsterdam T +31 6 211 57 224 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE: T +31 6 211 55 189 [email protected] This publication has been compiled with the greatest possible care, but no rights may be derived from its contents | July 2019.