HELSINKI - The Foreign Reporting, organised by the University of Helsinki course is a theoretical and practical course for local or international students, aimed at providing them with the conceptual framework and the practical skills needed to work as a foreign reporter on assignment. The course puts emphasis on multiculturality, ethnicity, cultural minorities and international journalism. It lasts from 5th of January to 30th of March 2009.
At the end of the course, the students are sent to Estonia on a working assignment which will result in a report for newspaper, radio or television. Thus, the participants are expected to have good English skills and some experience of practical journalism.
The Foreign Reporting Course consists of: Foreign Correspondence in Practice (5 ECTS credits), International Journalism (5 ECTS credits), Ethnicity, Representation and the Media (5 ECTS credits), Journalism for Cultural Minorities (5 ECTS credits). For further information about the course, application information as well as criteria for acceptance, please, visit the homepage http://sockom.helsinki.fi/.
The course is full-time and the participants should, due to the intensive programme, not take part in other day-time courses from January to March 2009. See course program for further details. (Source: http://sockom.helsinki.fi/)
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