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Welcome at the Chair of Science Journalism! |
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New remedy for science journalism in Germany
Cancer research, climate change and cloning: Sciences become more and
more important for day-to-day life – or at least in the day-to-day
news. Therefore a well informed and critical translator is needed - a
journalist who is able to understand and classify news of the
scientific community as well as to communicate new inventions or
theories in a comprehensible way. That is why our new Bachelor’s
Program in Science Journalism combines natural sciences with
journalism. The degree is the first in Europe to combine sciences and
journalism teaching.
It started in October 2003 and has already been acknowledged in the
media as an important academic education. A great number of the most
famous German scientific journalists as well as correspondents from
Science and Nature have been guest lecturers during the last few terms.
The course of studies is situated at the Institute for Journalism
at Universität Dortmund – one of only a few academic journalism
programmes in Germany. The next step is to establish the new degree in
the international journalism and scientific community.
Our students are trained in different kinds of skills: They learn how
to collect information, to double-check the facts and finally to write
articles and to create TV and radio reports. Furthermore, they acquire
a general knowledge in sciences as well as a deeper understanding in
one of the following three subjects: sciences (biological sciences and
medicine or physics), engineering technology (mechanical or electrical
engineering) or data analysis and statistics. In the journalistic part
of the education students produce reports that are closely connected
with the content in their science lessons.
During the four years of study, students also train intensively on the
job. In addition to the campus media, a one-year traineeship is
compulsory for the degree. The aim is to educate journalists who are
able to explain news of the scientific world and to classify these
pieces of information for readers, listeners or viewers. Students who
have successfully passed the Bachelor’s programme can work as
scientific journalists in radio or TV stations as well as in newspaper
newsrooms or public relations offices. Graduated students also have the
possibility of completing their Master degree in one additional year.
The programme has already received an award of the Volkswagen Foundation and the Bertelsmann Foundation.
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( 03.07.2008 )
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