Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Journalistic Ethics
Teaching staff
By e-mail at wmramirez@uic.es
By appointment: ask for one personally on by e-mail.
At Humanities Faculty Teacher's Lounge
Introduction
The ethics of communication has not found it easy to make its way. Sometimes has focused on distilling (too) simple behaviorl rules to replace the need to reflect and decide personally. Others are lost in theoretical and abstract discussions that have ended provoking skepticism among professionals. While it is an applied knowledge, ethics of communication faces the problem of how can values and ideals be applied to a daily praxis, full of circumstances and complexities.
Pre-course requirements
None.
Objectives
This course aims to help harmonize theoretical and practical perspectives through combined systematic access to contents of the communication and real cases and applications. It enables students to know how to analyze business situations and personal actions, so they get the habit of being willing to give a coherent answer for their own actions, to argue in terms of rights and duties, try to act in conscience and expose to the public or members of his team the origin of their decisions.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 CG - Capacity for self-evaluation and professional order
- 02 CG - The ability to learn and act an autonomously and responsibly
- 05 CG - The ability to develop an ethical attitude
- 08 CG - The ability to reflect and memorize.
Learning outcomes of the subject
Los estudiantes:
Se ilustrarán en las distintas corrientes de pensamiento ético y quedarán en una mejor disposición de afrontar con autonomía y responsabilidad los distintos problemas éticos que su profesión tarde o temprano les planteará.
Conocerán los procesos morales presentes en los individuos, los grupos sociales y la gran sociedad. Asimismo serán más capaces de gestionar aquellas situaciones de su labor profesional en las que el factor humano sea dominante.
Además de adquirir conocimientos y competencias, conocerán protocolos útiles para trabajar en el mundo de la comunicación, el cual está fuertemente condicionado por dinámicas y exigencias económico-empresariales.
Adoptarán como uno de los puntos básicos de su perspectiva profesional el conocimiento y atención de los públicos y las audiencias.
Además, los estudiantes:
- Serán capaces de observar la realidad con criterios periodísticos.
- Estarán ilustrados en las distintas corrientes de pensamiento ético y en una mejor disposición para afrontar con autonomía y responsabilidad los retos deontológicos que plantea el ejercicio de la profesión periodística.
- Conocerán los elementos configuradores de las organizaciones periodísticas, así como su estructura económica.
Syllabus
Introduction to Ethics.
Lesson 1. What is ethics
Lesson 2. The Good
Lesson 3. The Ends
Lesson 4. Freedom
Lesson 5. Virtues
Lesson 6. Practical Virtues
Lesson 7. Justice
Teaching and learning activities
In person
Lectures: Perspectives on general ethics.
Workshops: Activities specifically aimed at ethics in information.
| TRAINING ACTIVITY | ECTS CREDITS |
| Lectures. In lectures, lecturers/professors not only transmit content or knowledge, but also, and above all else, attitudes, motivation, skills and values, etc. They also ensure that participants can express their opinions and arguments to the other students. | 2 |
| Seminar. This activity will consist of taking an in-depth look at specific up-to-date topics in a monographic manner-in some cases these topics will have been debated socially-, via active work in small groups. | 2 |
| Practical workshop. A highly practical working activity, where students can acquire skills that are practical or also theoretical (intellectual skills, logical skills, critical skills, intellectual learning skills, study skills, quoting skills, etc). | 2 |
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
During the course students will turn in 4-5 workshops which will constitute one grade.
At the end of the course they will take a final exam.
Students must have at least a 5 in each part in order to pass the course.
If a student has 3 or more behavior reprimands they will not have access to the final exam, which will appear as a NP (numerically, a 0)
The exam will constitue 60% of the final grade, and the workshop average the remaining 40%.
*To pass the second call, students will have to be evaluated again of the parts they have failed. For the following calls, they will need to refer to the updated Student Guide for the new edition of the course.
Bibliography and resources
See each lesson in the course's intranet.