School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Television News and Current Affairs
  • Unit Code

    BRO5213
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery


Description

This unit provides students with practical preparation for working in television and on-line newsrooms. It covers newsroom operations, techniques of gathering, writing, sub-editing and compiling news items for television and news and current affairs websites. Students will be expected to undertake extensive fieldwork involving assignments to major location stories.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded BRO4213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse current practice in television and online news and current affairs.
  2. Identify when legal or ethical advice should be sought regarding a story.
  3. Plan, research, script and produce video reports for news/current affairs.
  4. Prepare, conduct and edit a video interview for news/current affairs.
  5. Work in small teams to produce on-location video news items.

Unit Content

  1. Elements of news and current affairs video packages.
  2. Interviewing for news and current affairs.
  3. Journalism ethics and codes of practice.
  4. Sources of news.
  5. Structure and lines of responsibility of television and online newsrooms.
  6. Writing for news websites.
  7. Writing for television news and current affairs.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecture and studio workshop, with practical exercises and feedback following formal instruction.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
AssignmentTelevision News
Creative WorkSame Day Stories
Creative WorkMagazine or current affairs package

Text References

  • Alysen, B. (2006). The electronic reporter: Broadcast journalism in Australia. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
  • Rudd, J. (2005). The heard mentality: The new way to write broadcast news and information. (2nd ed.). Bunbury, Australia: Word Hot Shop.
  • Rudd, J. (2007). 100 hot ways to write TV scripts. Bunbury, Australia: Word Hot Shop.
  • Phillips, G., & Lindgren, M. (2006). Australian broadcast journalism. (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: OUP.

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Television News and Current Affairs
  • Unit Code

    BRO5213
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery


Description

This unit provides students with practical preparation for working in television and on-line newsrooms. It covers newsroom operations, techniques of gathering, writing, sub-editing and compiling news items for television and news and current affairs websites. Students will be expected to undertake extensive fieldwork involving assignments to major location stories.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded BRO4213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse current practice in television and online news and current affairs.
  2. Identify when legal or ethical advice should be sought regarding a story.
  3. Plan, research, script and produce video reports for news/current affairs.
  4. Prepare, conduct and edit a video interview for news/current affairs.
  5. Work in small teams to produce on-location video news items.

Unit Content

  1. Elements of news and current affairs video packages.
  2. Interviewing for news and current affairs.
  3. Journalism ethics and codes of practice.
  4. Sources of news.
  5. Structure and lines of responsibility of television and online newsrooms.
  6. Writing for news websites.
  7. Writing for television news and current affairs.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecture and studio workshop, with practical exercises and feedback following formal instruction.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
AssignmentTelevision News
Creative WorkSame Day Stories
Creative WorkMagazine or current affairs package

Text References

  • Alysen, B. (2006). The electronic reporter: Broadcast journalism in Australia. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
  • Phillips, G., & Lindgren, M. (2006). Australian broadcast journalism. (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: OUP.
  • Rudd, J. (2007). 100 hot ways to write TV scripts. Bunbury, Australia: Word Hot Shop.
  • Rudd, J. (2005). The heard mentality: The new way to write broadcast news and information. (2nd ed.). Bunbury, Australia: Word Hot Shop.

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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