Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaJournalistic Ethics
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Dr. Iván LACASA - lacasa@uic.es
Office hours
By appointment via e-mail:
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.
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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.
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:
Program of Iván Lacasa
Item 1.
Ethics, professional ethics and morality.
Item 2.
Aspiration to happiness, meaning of life and sense of work.
Item 3.
Individual, subjectivity and moral conscience.
Item 4.
Truth and lies.
Laboratory Carlos Pérez de Rozas & Albert Garrido
Item 1.
Seven months in the life of Boston: from the attack on the marathon to the success of the Red Sox. The work of "The Boston Globe".
Item 2.
In memory of Nelson Mandela. Its universal farewell.
Item 3.
"Invisible child". the story of young Dasani in "The New York Times." The paper press and media. Prize of SND.
Item 4.
Francisco: a media-inspired pope. His style and the media.
Item 5.
The Olympic Games in London 2012 and Sochi 2014. Pictures and human stories.
Item 6.
The cultural references. Knowledge of the past as a fundamental part of good journalism.
| TRAINING ACTIVITY | ECTS CREDITS |
|---|---|
| Coaching. Monitoring how students learn the content of the subject, either individually or in groups. In the coaching sessions, mistakes will be corrected, queries answered, and exercises and activities to achieve the established objectives will be suggested. | 0.8 |
| 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. | 3 |
| 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. | 2.2 |
Students will take a final exam in which they assess content and skills worked with the professors Ivan Lacasa.
Students also conduct individual work related to the seminar taught by Professor Ivan Lacasa and journalistic product linked to laboratory Carlos Pérez de Rozas and Albert Garrido, to be presented before a court evaluator.
In the final grade, each exam will weigh 35%, and the journalistic product a 30%.
The legislation spelling of the Faculty shall apply to the examination, to work, to journalistic product and presentation of the latter before the court evaluator.
See: teaching and learning material.