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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 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, , 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 University of learn the basics of magazine layouts. Applied Sciences. [email protected] T +31 6211 57 224 1091 Amsterdam GC 1 Rhijnspoorplein address: Visiting Amsterdam AA 1000 P.O. 32 box (AUAS) Sciences Applied of University Amsterdam Kroon Ronald Drs. FROM: OBTAINED BE CAN PROGRAMME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS MINOR TanzaniaArusha, in Tribunal Criminal Rwanda for International the at officer legal Sheila Paylan Associate media social on author critical and entrepreneur British-American Keen Andrew Brandpunt KRO-NCRV at Reporter Blaauw de Piet Times NY editor media Ennis Connor at University Syracuse School Hub Brown York New in Nieuws RTL of correspondent former and Janeiro de Rio in tv-reporter Max Westerman Freelance Iraq and Kurdistan Isis, on books , several of author Correspondent Middle Neurink East for Judit democracies developing in media supports which Unlimited, Press Free of Director Willems Leon YorkClay New Bloomberg Eltzroth New Erik Mouthaan LECTURERS GUEST OUR OF SOME [email protected] T +31 6211 55 189 CONTACT THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SHOULD York Associate Dean at the Newhouse Newhouse the at Dean Associate RTL nieuws RTL correspondent NRC Handelsblad/NRC.Next NRC Graphic designer at Akkeren van Paula Orleans New University Loyola Lecturer Bootello Alvaro Turkey in Coordinator Caucasus and Programme Media and journalist Freelance Baris Ruken NRC.Next and Handelsblad NRC at editor Nicole Picture Robbers atinstructor Bilgi Istanbul University and journalist photo Gökhan and Tan Reporter Stuttgart in Medien der Hochschule at journalism online in lecturer and Journalist Bader Katarina De for Moscow in correspondent former and Arnout Brouwers in and Rwanda Uganda correspondent Arne Doornebal Freelance and reporter former Austria International Amnesty Powell Martina Journalist Hans Jaap Melissen Volkskrant Chief Opinion Section Award winning war

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