PERI - Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Psychology

Journalism is a profession that understands and grants meaning, a social scenario of understanding and misunderstanding, and the place for present-day hope, but above all, it is an act of writing and narration where society counts itself and life is described. This course-workshop studies from the analysis and practice: the work of informing and telling the reality, for such purpose we conduct practices on language and the ways of expressing journalism as a job and as a profession, we practice journalism-oriented writing (report, interview, writing of reports or profiles). This is done through concepts, understanding, analysis and practice so that the students learn and think about their experience as readers and writers to determine the type of journalism that must be conducted nowadays.

Cultural journalism focuses on reporting, news-spreading and story-telling of topics related with culture and popular culture, the relation of topics with entertainment, and show-business. We conduct a special analysis on what is culture, cultural things and related issues. In this workshop-study the studying of cultural journalism revises the technique used in reporting and writing of cultural issues and studies what is known as culture in the cultural media.

This workshop-course will teach the student: the basic concepts of journalism, the writing techniques and the tools used on digital journalism. Under the format of a practical workshop, it will introduce the students to the use of the basic tools of digital journalism and the students will participate on the design (writing. photography, audio and video) and implementation of a digital magazine addressed to situations or real-life cases, by using multimedia tools. We will apply the development of discussions and decision-making taking place on an editorial office of a digital media, and it will face the students as per the ethic dilemmas that any journalist shall face while conducting his/her work.

Objectives: Promoting the students´ interest on writing and proper use of language in journalist texts. Developing the necessary skills for the creation, revision and evaluation of texts. Understanding and analyzing the multiple languages commonly and normally used by journalists. Its methodology is theoretical-practical as a workshop that develops topics in: Communication and Language, reading and writing techniques. Spelling and journalist writing. The essential units of a journalist text. Construction, classification and difference. The writing plan. Evaluation of linguistic skills. Models of texts as per the narration and description. These topics are applied through exercises, evaluations, valuation of different texts and valuation of writings written by other people.

Objectives: to provide the students with tools that allow them to identify the elements that make the facts interesting as news and how to present them to the public following the criteria applied in the writing of news. Practicing honest and complete journalism that allows them to write useful stories for the people. Methodology: workshop on writing office. Contests: Features of the role journalist. How is a newspaper done. The parts of information. Familiarization with the journalist lingo. Where do stories come from and how to get them. Elements to assess information: novelty, unlikelihood, closeness on time, empathy and interest for the public. How to conduct reporting, the distance from the sources, manipulations and how to prevent them. Types of journalism, differences between information and opinion. Structure of the news: the lead, the body, the context and final part. Journalist resources: Pretitle, title, summary, intertitle, caption.

Objectives: Know and develop a good command on the techniques on investigation and writing of the chronicle as a journalistic genre. To provide students with the tools for the elaboration of interesting chronicles, both in their form as in their content, able to transmit readers the value of the facts narrated. Study the work of some of the major chronicle writers of national and international journalism. Methodology: Workshop/theory-practice. Contents: -the chronicle: Definition. Characteristics. General Features. Stages in the elaboration of a chronicle: the topic, field work, writing, edition. The management of the scenes: time, space, action. The balance between interpretation and narration: subjectivity, data, style, personal voice, and narrative point of view.

Objectives: To understand how to find good ideas for journalist reports, and how to make research on them, structure, write, and edit them. Practicing the work of a journalist: data, character, context and narrative. Methodology: theoretical-practical workshop. Content: What is reporting? How is a good report like? Where do the ideas come from? How to choose the ideas that reflect what is happening in our time? Attractive ideas for journalists vs. attractive ideas for people. The keys for a good report and the key sources. How to tell what we are told and what actually happened. How to make up the story. Journalist writing on the Internet.

Objective: Encourage the frequent use of investigative journalism in students, based on the understanding of its theory, case studies and practical tools. Methodology: Theoretic-practical Workshop Contents: Origins, conceptual framework and demythologizing of investigative journalism. Triggers of a research project. Pre-feasibility, tips before and during research. Access to public information. Computer Assisted Journalism: ideas on how to use computer assisted journalism, how to design online research. International case studies and discussion on research. Specialized search for information.

Journalism is an occupation that must be learned at a workshop. During this laboratory the student will participate in university nature design, production and media management experiences. Journalism has become a flexible and mobile process in which professionals do not approach the media but create new media and reach audiences. In this workshop course work is conducted under the terms of journalistic rigor for the design of digital convergence media. The aim is for Los Andes University students to understand and practice how to design and create a digital journalistic means. The idea is that those students who are interested in journalism will be able to create their own communications means. This course is mandatory for every student who wants to pursue the Journalism Option

Aims: To reinvent journalism within the contexts of Internet and the technological advances. The multiple new creative possibilities and ways to approach the occupation as a journalist, both from the corporate and narrative standpoints. Thinking about the profile of the journalist of the future. Methodology: Workshop/theoretical-practical. Contents: - How will the future of journalism be? Are we heading towards journalism without journalists? Towards a non linear journalism: Hypertext is the language of the Internet. Towards an immersion journalism? Towards open media? The new journalist. New ways of reporting. New ways of telling stories. New ways to disclose the news.

Aims: To understand and practice journalism through the Internet. Get to know the different formats that compose journalism in the Internet. Methodology: Workshop/theoretical-practical. Contents: Background of electronic journalism. No sequential narrative. The resources of the web. Online media. Internet as a journalistic channel. The hypertext. Fundamentals on Narrative on the Internet. Internet as a whole, as a convergence and creation space. Hypermedia. Surfing criteria. Roads, paths, bridges. Interaction. Relationships with the users, tools and possibilities. Citizens’ journalism. Journalistic genders in the web, Cyberspaces: blogs, communities, portals. Basic notions of digital design.

Aim: To produce the analysis, reflection and communication abilities of the informative radio. Providing tools that will enable participants to conduct prerecorded radio programs in chronicle, report, round table and debate formats. Methodology: Workshop/theoretical-practical. Contents: Understanding to communicate. Producing communicative pieces, being accountable for what is being done, being in tune with receiving audiences and taking on the commitment to approaching with rigor the circumstances intended to communicate. The radio as a speech. What does it reflect? How does it reflect it? What does it mean? The radio is a resounding story. What to tell, how to tell it? Radio production: script, elements of the script, production, recording, editing and staging.

Professional practice in the media and/or media watchdog, with a minimum of 100 hours of practice/internship that the student is allowed to start from the second unit and during the post grade, always taking into account the knowledge acquired.

Objectives: Reflect on the work of the journalist (think + narrate + understand current events). Develop skills to address ethical dilemmas, and analyze how journalism is a profession in which ethics represent the most important aspect. Analyze the contexts of ownership of the media, technification of the practice, relations of interest with the sources, and lightification of the worlds of life. Produce a map on the current debate on the situation and perspectives of journalism. Methodology: Seminar-workshop. Contents: -the work of the journalist: Narratives of the present.-Ethics of journalism: Identity of Journalism, freedom and values. Responsibility, freedom, independence, and journalistic objectivity.-tendencies on journalism: citizenship and the new media.

Objective: to understand how to narrate characters through their stories. Practicing the different tools as to build a journalist profile: how to conduct research on them, how to summarize, edit and observe them. Theoretical-practical methodology as a workshop. Contents: when is a profile used? How is a character studied? What sources do I need to surround my character? Friendly and unfriendly sources. The importance of an adequate interview, How to make it? How to organize the journalism of the final profile (navigation chart).