COURSE TITLE

Media Arts: Enhancing speaking and writing skills through journalism

OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
1. Increase their level in writing skills through experience various news sections (sports, editorial,
feature, etc).
2. Increase their level in speaking skills through broadcasting.
3. Produce newspaper that contains their written articles.
4. Produce video clips that is created and produced by them.

Course Schedule:

Course Outline:

DATE TOPIC ACTIVITY OBJECTIVES

Introduction to paper Understand that
newspaper messages
are created to inform,
persuade or entertain

Become familiar with

each section of the
newspaper

Identify examples of
newspaper jargon in
the newspaper.
Journalism writing
basics
Interviewing and Understand skills and
Quoting steps to develop
questions for and
conduct an interview.

Elicit information and

direct quotations from
the interviewee.

News writing Process

1. What is news? Become familiar with
2. What is the the steps in the writing
process of process
news?
 Characteristics
and good
qualities of
news writing
and writing
them

All about FEATURE

Understand
characteristics of
feature writing

Writing process of
feature writing

All about SPORTS

1. Identify important
people, events and
sequence in a sports
competition
2. Write a sports story
that includes an
effective lead,
appropriate sequence
and colorful language.

All about EDITORIAL

All about NEWS ETHICS Analyze a news story
for newsworthiness

Understand codes of
ethical journalism
2. Understand why it is
important to maintain
ethical journalism
standards
3. Apply ethical
journalism standards to
hypothetical and actual
news events.