JRN300 Subediting (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Communication (COMUN)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject offers advanced theoretical and applied learning in subediting. Within three modules, news language and construction, design and media law, the subject develops high-level analytical competencies in grammar, story structure, design, image placement, headline and caption writing, defamation and contempt of court. The subject is offered via 11 weeks distance education with a one week face to face intensive (residential) workshop.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Distance * | Bathurst | Session 2 |
| Distance * | Bathurst |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: JRN300
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Assumed Knowledge:
Students enrolling in this subject should have a theoretical and/or practical understanding of journalism and/or text-editing practice.
Enrolment restrictions:
Students should either be enrolled in a Bachelor of Communication program or be nominated by Fairfax Regional Media to enrol for Single Subject Study. The subject will also be available to others as Single Subject Study.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- have a theoretically informed understanding of subediting
- be able to apply advanced subediting techniques to copy
- understand and apply concepts relating to story structure
- understand and apply design principles in relation to hard and soft news layout
- understand and apply key principles in headline and picture caption writing
- understand and apply theories relating to image placement in publications
- understand and apply media law in relation to contempt of court
- understand and apply media law in relation to defamation
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- News Language and Construction
- Design for news publications
- Media Law in relation to contempt of court and defamation
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 5 day residential school.
A one week intensive (residential) is held in the final week of the subject offering at the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University. The intensive will give students the opportunity to revise materials and further develop competencies in a tutorial-style program that emphasises student/teaching staff interaction and guidance. The major assessment for the subject, an in-class test, will be held during the intensive.
Specialised Resources
The final week face to face intensive (residential) will require all students to attend the Bathurst campus.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.