The course explains how to pursue business stories – sourcing for leads, developing business contacts, obtaining information from government and businesses, internet and live sources, and covering business beats such as finance, property, telecommunications, retail and the like. It also discusses investigative techniques in business journalism.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: MSJ 321(New)
Course Name:
News Sourcing and Gathering
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: MSJ 322 (New)
Course Name:
News Editing and Translation
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is designed to develop the skills of editing in both English and Bangla. This includes copy re-writing, headline writing, proofreading, news scheduling and news treatment. Moreover, it provides students with the knowledge needed to translate English business news reports and feature articles to Bangla and vice versa. In sub-editing, the focus will be on copy-editing, translation and foreign story re-writing.
Course Code: MSJ 323 (New)
Course Name:
Economic and Financial Reporting
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to help students specialize in economic and financial reporting. In this course, emphasis will be given to coverage of personal finance, capital market, national/global economy, banking, insurance, taxation and property. Students will be required to produce news and feature reports for print, broadcast and online media.
Course Code: MSJ 324 (New)
Course Name:
Labor and Workplace Reporting
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to help students specialize in labor and workplace reporting. It will emphasize labor issues such as in export processing zones, ship breaking, employment/ unemployment and overseas workers’ remittances. Students will understand that labor is the greatest resource of the country and should be given significance in business reporting.
Course Code: MSJ 325 (New)
Course Name:
Reporting on SMEs and Non-Profits
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Often overlooked in business coverage, hundreds of thousands of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of the Bangladesh economy by employing millions. This course will teach how to track and report on such enterprises, as well as go beyond the storefronts to understand their sources of funding. In many cases, SMEs are bankrolled by non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). By the end of the course, the students are expected to develop a sound understanding of the small business sector, its symbiotic relationship with non-profits and then acquire necessary skills to cover this dynamic combination in print, electronic and online media.
Course Code: MSJ 326 (New)
Course Name:
Reporting on the Economy and Climate Change
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This class will examine how best to cover the political, environmental—and financial—implications of Climate Change. How will warming temperatures play havoc with public and private investments? What will it do with crop production, the livelihood of most Bangladeshis? Experts say the government is ill equipped to solve these problems, which means the private sector must step up. That means business journalists need to be prepared to shoulder the burden of coverage.
Course Code: MSJ 331 (New)
Course Name:
Cinema Studies
Prerequisite:
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course introduces students to the study of film, its history and aesthetics and their application to individual films and film movements. Students will become acquainted with basic elements, terminology and theories of critique and inquiry in film studies. These include genre theory, auteur theory, semiotics of film and the analysis of form as opposed to content. More than an overview, the goal is to train students to view films critically and with an informed awareness. Readings as well as screenings will be required.
Course Code: MSJ 332
Course Name:
Media Presentation and Performance
Prerequisite:
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will introduce students to the fundamentals of on-camera presentation skills for TV and cinema, including acting, makeup, speech and pronunciation, basic fitness and posture.
Course Code: MSJ 333
Course Name:
Scriptwriting
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will provide students with the fundamentals of writing for the screen such as news-based reporting, short documentary scripts as well as feature documentaries. On completion of the practical elements of the course, students will be expected to write a script in their chosen area, which they will shoot in the MSJ 430 Advanced TV Production or MSJ 409 Documentary Production.
Course Code: MSJ 333 (New)
Course Name:
Writing for Film and TV
Prerequisite:
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will focus on the fundamentals of turning images into words. Students will learn basics of writing for the screen such as news-based reporting, short documentary scripts as well as feature narratives. On completion of the practical elements of the course, students will be expected to write a script in their chosen area.