JOU5083 - Features and Magazines

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

Students will examine key skills and techniques used in magazine and feature writing through formative and summative practical exercises in class resulting in a varied portfolio. The practical work will develop important feature writing techniques, including the use of authoritative sources, research and interview skills, journalistic writing styles and the role of the internet in terms of both research and publication.

Students will explore the contemporary magazine market and learn the craft skills of magazine production to create their own publication with a specific demographic and stated readership.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Workshops (11 weeks Sem 1, 9 weeks Sem 2)
Hours: 30
Intended Group Size: Up to 25

Technical workshops
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: 15 or up to 25 with 2 instructors

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Portfolio 1: Portfolio of features and articles, assessed for content, tone and style. Students will receive formative feedback on work produced throughout the module in order to submit a portfolio of summative work.

Portfolio 2: This shorter portfolio should demonstrate ability to learn from feedback comments from the 1st portfolio.

Assignment 3: this assessment covers the process of producing a magazine. The content is drawn from earlier portfolio work but this content is not assessed. Students work as a group to produce a printed magazine, but will be assessed on their individual production roles.

Early Assessment: the early portfolio exercises, within the first few weeks, receive formative assessment to help unpack the assignment details for the 1st assignment as well as guide and inform student preparation and help introduce the University grading system.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio 1; 3,000 words; end of semester 1 50%
002 Portfolio 2; 3,000 words; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Carolyn Jackson-Brown
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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