HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO COLLEGE Sta. Ana Avenue, Davao City Bachelor of Arts (AB) Major: English COURSE OUTLINE I. Course No: English 15 Credit: 3 units II. Course Title: Campus Journalism Pre-requisites: None III. Course Description : This course promotes the development and growth of campus journalism as a means to strengthen ethical values, encourage creative thinking, and develop moral character and personal discipline among the students. It encourages and train students on how to produce and manage a school paper. This is also a practical course to students who are beginners in the journalism field and who want to improve their journalistic skills. IV. Course Objectives: At the end of the course, the students can: A. Cognitive (Knowledge) : 1. Discuss the ethical standards of campus journalism and the extent of freedom of the press. 2. Describe the different sections of a school paper. 3. Compare the different news writing techniques and formats. B. Affective (Attitude) : 1. Strengthen moral character through campus news papering. 2. Recognize the role of the campus press as a watchdog and a fiscalizer. C. Psychomotor (Skills): 1. Develop their journalistic skills. 2. Design a well-balanced publication. V. Course Outline Contents No. of Hours A. High school publications 1 1. The Birth of High School Papers in the Country 1 2. The Birth of Manila City Schools of Newspaper 1 3. Formal Introduction of Newspaper 1 B. Journalism in General 1 1. Scope of Journalism 1 2. Functions of the campus paper 1 3. National and Campus Paper 1 4. Sections or part of a Campus 1
C. Letterpress printing 1. Elements That Make News 1 2. News defined 3. Element of news 4. Types of News stories 1 5. Scope or Origin 6. Chronology or sequence 7. Structure 1 8. Treatment 9. Content 1 10. Minor forms D. Writing the Lead 1. Kinds of Lead 1 E. Writing the News Story 1. Various Types of News Structure 1 2. Straight News story 3. News-feature story 1 4. The single feature story 5. The several-feature, multiple-angle or composite story 6. Fact story 1 7. Action story F. Speech report, quote and interview stories 1. Advanced news interpretative 1 G. Reporting 1. Objective & interpretative report 1 2. Writing Features 3. Features defined 1 4. Main objective features 5. Features and news compared 6. News feature 7. Topics for feature stories 8. How to introduce the feature article 9. Ending the feature article 10. Qualities of a good feature writer 11. Characteristics of a good feature writer 1 12. What interpretation means 13. How and what to interpret 14. Depth news H. Writing Headline 1. Structure of headlines 2 2. Do s and don ts in writing traditional 3. Punctuating headlines 1 4. Headline vocabulary
I. Editorial 1. Characteristics of a good editorial 1 2. Types of editorial 3. How to write an editorial 4. Parts of an editorial 5. Pointers on writing editorial 1 6. Examples of the different types of editorial a. Information b.. Argumentation 1 c. Criticism d.. Interpretation e.. Special occasion 1 f.. Mood g.. Entertainment h. Tribute J. Cartooning 1. Cartooning defined 1 2. Characteristics of a good cartoon 3. Suggestions for cartooning 1 K. Writing Features 1. Features defined 1 2. Main objective features 3. Features and news compared 1 4. News feature 5. Topics for feature stories 1 6. How to introduce the feature article 7. Ending the feature article 1 8. Qualities of a good feature writer 9. Characteristics of a good feature writer 1 10. Examples of feature article usually found in school paper L. Writing the interview 1. Interview defined 1 2. Kinds of interview 3. Athletic meet 4. Printing and typography 1 5. Computer printing 6. The easy method 7. Do s and don ts in conducting an interview 1 8. Guidelines to observe during the interview 9. Guideline to observe in writing the interview 10. Writing it up 1 11. Models 12. Speech interview 13. Feature interview
M. Writing the sports story 1. Structure of sports story 1 2. Qualities of a good sports writer 3. Writing the sport story 1 a. The lead 1 b. The body c. Suggested pointers 1 c.1 Models c.2 Volleyball c.3 Softball c.4 Baseball c.5 Basketball N. Layout or makeup 4 1. Type of front page makeup 2. Makeup inside of inside pages 3. Principles to follow to achieve effective makeup O. Photojournalism 4 1. Picture selection 2. Characteristics of a good photographer P. Caption writing 4 1. Ethics and law of the press Total 54 hours VI. References A. Books Ref. 1 Cruz, C.J. (2011). Campus journalism and school paper advising. Manila: Rex Book Store. B. Web Resources Ref. 2 Arao, Danilo A. (2006). The practice of online journalism in the Philippines: personal observations. Retrieved September 27, 2012, from http://www.dannyarao.com/files/arao onlinejournalism.pdf
Ref.3 Guinto, N. (2012). Language of youngblood: the discourse practice of young column writers in the Philippines. Retrieved September 27, 2012, http://iafor.org/acll2012_offprints/acll2012_offprint_0229.pdf Ref. 4 Loo, E. (2009). Best practices of journalism in Asia. Retrieved on September 27, 2012., from http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_18665-1522-2-30.pdf?100125090244 Ref. 5 United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (2007). Press freedom: safety of journalists and impunity Retrieved on September 27, 2012, from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001567/156773e.pdf C. Others Ref. 6 Schoolpaper/newspapers