Master 1 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

Radio Presentation

This course will cover an overview of radio presentation, as well as the preparation and presentation of radio news, the preparation and presentation of radio programs, segments and features, as well as the preparation and presentation of radio dialogue, the techniques of dealing with the microphone, and how to create your fingerprint and your audio media identity as a student

Outcomes

Develop knowledge and skills related to radio presentation and learn how to prepare news and radio programs and how they differ from television programs

TV Presentation

This course will cover an overview of television presentation, the preparation and presentation of television news, as well as the preparation and presentation of television programs and segments, the preparation and presentation of television dialogue, the techniques of speaking in front of the camera, how to deal with the camera, skills related to body language, how to overcome fear, tension and phobia while speaking to the camera, and the techniques of creating your fingerprint and your visual media identity as a student.

Outcomes

Developing knowledge and skills related to presentation and delivery through body language and correct language and familiarity with the correct way to present programs and news on television.

Producing reports and features:

The course deals with the techniques of producing reports and features, how to write press reports, elements of a press report, choosing appropriate and attractive titles, introductions to press reports, the structure of a press report, the difference between a press report, investigation and press interview, and skills in writing and preparing features.

Outcomes:

Learning about the art of writing press reports by giving concrete examples and helping to build a sound and professional press report.

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.

Press interviews and dialogue

This course will address the art of press interviews, political analysis, defining press interviews, constructing press interviews, preparing and preparing questions, the secrets of successful interviews, and post-interview: editing, publishing, and follow-up via social media to monitor interactions.

Outcomes:

Acquiring skills in conducting effective, easy-to-disseminate and influential press interviews by media experts.

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

Gain voiceover skills and the effective way to use sound in delivery and presentation

Mobile Journalism

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

Outcomes:

Get to know the new technologies in mobile journalism that have become widespread.

Get to know the new technologies in digital content creation

Podcast

The course provides an overview of podcasting, audio content creation, research on the topic of episodes and finding the appropriate title for the podcast, writing the script, proposal, the most prominent techniques for preparing podcasts, the devices used, and the mechanism of publishing, distribution, promotion and interaction.

Outcomes

Acquiring skills in preparing and producing podcasts

Investigative Journalism

The course aims to introduce the student to investigative journalism and its techniques, how to write investigatively, and the skills that a journalist must have, so that he becomes an investigative journalist in the literal sense of the word.

Outcomes

Acquiring investigative journalism skills and writing techniques for content based on journalistic investigation.

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 avoiding common mistakes that many broadcasters and content creators make.

Photography and editing

The course focuses on highlighting the camera and its various types, fixed, mobile and portable, and its holders, different shooting angles, learning about editing mechanisms and the most important programs that help in this.

Outcomes:

Acquire technical skills in the art of photography and editing

Program preparation

The course covers types of programs, program templates, dialogue, and preparing the program map, writing the scenario for the episodes in a correct and professional manner.

Outcomes:

Acquiring the skills necessary to prepare programs from the preparation method to implementation

Media legislation and professional ethics

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

Outcomes:

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

Artificial Intelligence Journalism

The course deals with artificial intelligence technologies, its applications and uses in journalism and its various forms, a necessity for media students and journalists, the foundations of journalistic writing that is appropriate and compatible with search engines, as the course provides a set of skills and rules that ensure that the journalist writes content that tops search engines and receives high readings and views, according to the latest requirements of electronic journalistic publishing and optimal preparation for search engines Search engine optimization

Outcomes:

Acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and techniques about journalism based on artificial intelligence, and how to deal with journalistic texts and write them in the age of artificial intelligence, as well as write according to “SEO” rules

Graduation Project

This course represents the natural translation of what the student studied during his enrollment in the program; This course aims to apply and implement the knowledge and skills acquired by the student during his study of the previous specialized courses for 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 representing 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.