Master 2 in Journalism

What will you learn?

  • Developing knowledge and skills related to presentation and delivery through body language, proper language, and knowledge of the correct way to present programs.
  • Recognizing the correct method for making news and how to derive, analyze, write, and place it in the correct context according to the institution’s editorial line.
  • News writing techniques and ensuring the credibility of sources
  • Learn about the art of writing press reports by giving concrete examples and helping to build a sound and professional press report
  • Acquire the skills of conducting effective press interviews that are easy to spread and influence by experts in the field of media
  • Building field reports and obtaining the necessary competencies to prepare field reports
  • Preparing for the live broadcast through television and radio interventions
  • Learn about coverage skills in conflict areas and in exceptional occasions and events
  • Obtaining technical skills in the art of photography, montage, directing and design through experts specialized in this field
  • Learn about the most important programs that assist in the editing and design processes, as well as the latest technical devices in the field and how to use them
  • Learn video editing skills using Adobe Premiere, which is the global program and the first in video production around the world
  • Get to know closely the new technologies in mobile journalism that have become widespread.
  • Learn about new technologies in digital content creation
  • Being able to take the lead in the rapidly growing media field through artificial intelligence journalism and seventh generation technologies

Duration

31 hours

Level

Intermediate

Course Content

The Art of Radio and Television Presentation and Speaking to the Camera

This course will provide an overview of radio and television presentation, and will also address the techniques of dealing with the microphone and camera, as well as presenting bulletins, programs, radio and television content, and the body language required to deal with all of that.

Outcomes

Developing knowledge and skills related to radio and television presentation and learning how to prepare radio and television news and programs, and developing presentation and delivery skills through body language and correct language and familiarity with the correct way to present programs and news on television.

Podcast

The course provides an overview of podcasts, preparing a technical card for podcasts, preparing a complete plan for publishing and distributing podcasts, choosing podcast hosting sites or entities, and marketing on social media.

Outcomes

Learn the correct methodology in preparing a full season for a podcast project by acquiring the skills of publishing, distributing, and promoting podcasts.

Public opinion and methods of measuring it

This course derives its importance from its name; as it focuses on studying public opinion, its types and forms, its characteristics, and methods of measuring it quantitatively and qualitatively, and how to build it, and the most prominent statistical methods and rules for designing tools and field questionnaires dedicated to measuring public opinion correctly.

Outcomes

Identify effective ways to measure public irrigation and the extent of its use in journalism and how to use and distinguish it

Public Relations and Corporate Communication

The course aims to provide students with the foundations of public relations, its characteristics and its role in the corporate communication system and the most prominent specifications and characteristics of a successful public relations man within media institutions.

Outcomes

Identify students with the foundations of public relations, its characteristics and its role in the corporate communication system and the most prominent specifications and characteristics of a successful public relations man within media institutions

Media Legislation and Professional Ethics

This course deals with the most prominent laws and legislation regulating media work, with an introduction to professional ethics and the most important controls and laws that a journalist must respect and knowledge of his rights and duties.

Outcomes

Familiarity with the most prominent media laws and legislations and professional ethics

Preparing Documentary Films

This course deals with the concept of documentary film, its types and elements of its composition, the stages of producing a professional documentary film, and preparing a documentary film scenario

Outcomes

Acquiring the skills necessary to prepare a documentary film

Mobile Journalism

The course seeks to teach the student to use the mobile in content creation, use the smartphone as a journalist, important stages of filming, taking professional shots, correct camera settings, montage and sequential arrangement of shots, overall content production, audio recording and adding sound effects, publishing and distribution

Outcomes:

Getting to know the new technologies in mobile journalism that have become widely spread.

Learn about new technologies in the digital content industry

Digital Journalism and New Media

The course covers the definition and development of digital journalism and social media, the most important and effective of them, writing for digital, identifying the target audience, and optimal use of social media

Outcomes

Get to know digital journalism closely and acquire new skills in content creation and distribution on different platforms.

Research Methods and Techniques

During this course, the student studies the foundations of scientific research in the field of media, in terms of the nature of scientific research, its pillars, and types of studies in media and communication sciences: quantitative and qualitative, the most prominent research methods used in the field of media, and the mechanisms for building a research plan.

Outcomes

Helping researchers to present an accurate study of scientific research, as well as reaching supported and accurate results.

Dealing with news agencies

The course deals with defining the work of news agencies, the services provided by agencies, news sources,

and the policy of subscription to news agencies and ensuring continuity.

Outcomes

Acquiring skills in dealing with different news agencies and how to benefit from the materials they provide, whether news, videos, photos, or media coverage.

Field Reporter

The course aims to identify the skills of the field reporter, the mistakes and pitfalls that the field reporter may make, breaking and live news and how to deal with them, and the legal and ethical controls that the reporter must adhere to.

Outcomes

Explaining and applying the tasks of press correspondents theoretically and practically by practicing field work.

Voiceover

This course aims to identify the voice, its types, and vocal layers, breathing skills, correct, breathing exercises, understanding and segmenting the text, coloring and intonation and the correct method of performance, vocal identity, using vocal skills in dubbing, storytelling, and reading advertisements.

Outcomes

Acquiring voice-over skills and the effective way to use sound in delivery and presentation

Filming and editing

The course focuses on shedding light on the camera and its various types, fixed, moving and portable, and its holders, different shooting angles, learning about montage mechanisms and the most important programs that help in that

Outcomes:

Acquiring technical skills in the art of photography and montage

Linguistic proofreading techniques in the media

Language is considered the vessel of thought and the primary transmitter of the media message; therefore, this course will discuss the most prominent terms used in the media from a linguistic perspective, the foundations of correct linguistic formulation of media content, the most prominent rules of proofreading in grammar, morphology and sentence structure, and what is said and what is not said linguistically in the media.

Outcomes:

Giving the student the necessary keys to master the Arabic language and avoid common mistakes that many broadcasters and content creators make.

Graduation Project

This course represents the natural translation of what the student has studied during his enrollment in the program; as this course aims to apply and implement the knowledge and skills that the student has acquired during his study of the specialized courses previous to the graduation project, in implementing a research project with an innovative creative idea individually or within a work team, until the project is completed in its final form.

Outcomes:

Under this project, the student submits a scientific research that represents a master’s thesis in his field of specialization (journalism) according to the sound scientific methodological rules and foundations and under the supervision of a specialized professor.