To study this subject you have to know and distinguish the great genres of journalistic writing. There must also be notions of the moment of transformation of journalism, due to the migration of media and technological.
										
											
										
											
										
											The student must be interested in the knowledge of the main cultural currents in the diverse contemporary arts, and in the way in which journalism has been related.

- To provoke curiosity in the student about the ways in which journalism has been linked to the emergence and expansion of cultural currents that have caused transformations in the ways of seeing and understanding the world within contemporary Western societies.
										
											
										
											- Propose a plausible definition of the terms 'journalism' and 'culture' - and 'cultural journalist' - that delimit the scope of interest of the subject and with which the student relates in an enriching but at the same time simple and direct way.
										
											
										
											- Train the student to acquire and develop the theoretical foundations, techniques and skills that make him a cultural communicator.
										
											
										
											- To provide the student with knowledge and critical capacity on the main creative currents of contemporaneity.
										
											
										
											- Describe and analyze the place occupied by specialized communication in culture within the media ecosystem and observe the transformations that it develops as a result of the appearance of new media and new informative and communicative tools.
										
											
										
											- Master the conventions of the main genres of cultural journalism: chronicle, interview, report, customs, criticism.
										
											
										
											- Know the main offers of contemporary cultural journalism in its various media, and also master the most relevant tradition of this type of specialized journalism.
										
											
										
											- Prepare the student to critically evaluate the different artistic and cultural manifestations

1. From the transformation of the journalistic paradigm to an afterpop culture.
										
											
										
											The complexity of journalistic knowledge: a paradigm crisis. Journalism as a form of knowledge of the world. The crisis of postmodernity and liquid modernity: the absence of the word. The weak concepts of the terms culture, literature or art. Cultural journalism in the context of the speech of the press in crisis: superficiality, spectacularity, entertainment, emotionality. The avalanche infoxicado. Reference quality journalism models. Models of cultural journalism in various media.
										
											
										
											2. Journalistic writing and cultural information.
										
											
										
											The genres of discourse: a contemporary and non-normative perspective: from Aristotle to Bakhtin. The genres of cultural journalism: the chronicle, the interview, the report, the picture of customs, the criticism. Criticism as a specific genre of cultural journalism: models, routes, examples. Other models of the main genres of cultural journalism in various media.
										
											
										
											 3. Contemporary culture and cultural journalism.
										
											
										
											Introduction to contemporary culture and pop art. Two moments of transformation: a) The world of yesterday: the turn of the century in Central Europe: Zweig, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Canetti, Roth; b) The cultural revolution of the 50s and 60s, and the rise of the beat generation, of the hippie movement, black power, the new culture of music. The role of journalism in both moments: the birth of new media and new audiences (like Rolling Stone) and new trends (New Journalism) that will transform the concept of culture and journalism - but also of being human - in the West. The digital wave as the third great moment of transformation: opportunities and challenges
										
											
										
											Within each section, and transversally, the content of the subject will be sensitive to aspects related to the gender perspective.

Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Participation in seminars and talks (volunteer workshop)	10%	0	0	6, 1, 18, 3, 17, 16, 2, 4, 8, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 12, 15, 22, 21, 19, 20, 14, 23, 5, 24, 25
Tutoring writting of one critical analysis work and classroom evaluable work	30%	0	0	3, 4, 21, 19, 20, 23
Writing of two informative genres (interview or chronicle)	30%	0	0	3, 17, 16, 4, 8, 9, 22, 21, 19, 20, 23
Writing of two reviews	30%	0	0	6, 1, 18, 3, 17, 16, 2, 4, 8, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 12, 15, 22, 21, 19, 20, 14, 23, 5, 24, 25

The detailed calendar with the content of the different sessions will be displayed on the day of presentation of the course and will also be available on the Virtual Campus of the course, where students can find the various teaching materials and all the necessary information for the proper monitoring of the course. In case of change of teaching modality for reasons of force majeure according to the competent authorities, the faculty will inform of the changes that will occur in the programming of the subject and in the teaching methodologies.

The theoretical part of the course will be worth 30% of the grade and the practical part 70%, although both must be passed in order to pass the course. The weight of the work in each of these interrelated dimensions of the course is indicated in the attached box.

The evaluation system will be continuous and will assess the student's progress, prioritizing the final level achieved and the progression above the average of the grades obtained in the practical exercises.

The re-evaluation will be made on the basis of the practices that have been failed, up to a maximum of two repetitions. As for the theoretical part, the tutored nature of the work means that the re-evaluation is de facto carried out in the work in progress. In case of not passing the final work and the classroom work, the students can take, if they have done 2/3 of the work and have passed the 3.5 final theoretical grade, a theoretical level test.

The student will have the right, in general, to the global recovery of the subject if he/she has been evaluated of the set of activities, the weight of which is of a minimum of 2/3 parts of the total grade of the subject.

RE-EVALUATION THEORY

If the result of the essay and the classroom work does not pass but exceeds 3.5 points, the theory teacher will carry out a tutored refund with the student and will order a new recovery work that has to be assumable in the time available.

PRACTICAL RE-EVALUATION

If the final practical grade, which is obtained, as explained above, by continuous evaluation, is failed, but higher than 3.5, the faculty will have some writing assignments to serve as a recovery within the deadlines that the calendar marks as a period of re-evaluation, in the month of June. These works will be, typically, the repetition of the practices or the practice that has been failed.

Not evaluable
Students will be not evaluable if they do not submit: the final theory essay, 2/3 of the classroom work and 75% of the written practicals.

The general framework of the evaluation and re-evaluation of this subject follows the ad hoc instructions approved by the Faculty Board of 05/05/2016, among which, the following:

1.The undergraduate subjects of the Faculty have to plan recovery systems (re-evaluation activities) in accordance with the academic regulations of the UAB (article 112.2) and with the document approved by the Board of the Faculty of Communication Sciences on June 1, 2012 on the programming of re-evaluation activities to the subjects of the undergraduate studies.

2. Students who have participated in the continuous assessment and fail the theory may recover it as long as they have obtained a minimum grade of 3.5 points -although a teacher can determine a lower grade-, and have made the ordinary review. Each teaching team will determine, according to the specificity of the subject, if there are other recoverable tests. If this is the case, it will decide the conditions that each student will have to meet in order to take the recovery and the maximum grade to which he/she can opt for, which must be included in the teaching guide.

3. The grade obtained in the recovery of the theory will be the final grade of this part. The result of this activity does not have to represent the final grade.

4. The system of scales and conditions to access the recovery must be applied in the same way in all the groups of the same subject.

5. The recovery will take place within the period established by the academic calendar of the Faculty.

6. These instructions do not preclude teachers from setting up systems for uploading grades of passing students.

PLAGIUM
In case the student makes any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of the grade of an act of evaluation, this act of evaluation will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instigated. In case of several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0.

AI
In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed as an integral part of the development of the work, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution of the students in the analysis and personal reflection. The student will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. Non-transparency of the use of AI will be considered academic dishonesty and may result in a penalty in the grade of the activity, or higher penalties in serious cases.

SINGLE EVALUATION

This course provides for a single evaluation system, with the following conditions, which follow the protocols set by the coordination of the degree:

THEORY (30%): Elaboration of a theoretical essay of critical analysis of the same conditions of the one proposed in the *continuous evaluation; an initial tutorial will be offered for the elaboration if the students wish.

PRACTICUM (70%): Presential test of writing a cultural chronicle within two hours (it has to be prepared with diverse material that the students can provide for the work, an initial tutorial is also offered in the case of practice work) (35%); Presentation, at the same time, of two cultural critiques of two different cultural products (cinema, literature, music, theater), with the same conditions as the critiques presented in the work of continuous evaluation (35%).

Recovery of the single evaluation: a) According to regulations, in order to participate in the recovery process, the student must have been previously evaluated at least 2/3 of the total of evaluable activities of the subject. b) The theory test (essay) can only be recovered if the student has obtained a grade lower than 4.9 and higher than 3.5. The recovery test will consist of a written test to evaluate theoretical knowledge. The recovery of the practice, with the same grade parameters, will be carried out through two texts: a new critique and a new work of chronicle writing. The theory and practice recovery, if necessary, will coincide on the same day.

 

Note: The content of the course will be sensitive to aspects related to the gender perspective and the use of inclusive language.

Note: 15 minutes of a class will be reserved, within the calendar established by the center/title, for the completion by the students of the evaluation surveys of the teacher's performance and the evaluation of the subject/module.

No specific syllabus is required in this subject, with the exception of any word processor model for the preparation of written practices.