Bachelor's degree in Journalism - Syllabus Branch of knowledge Duration Schedule Academic year Languages Credits Social and legal sciences Four academic years Full-time study programme (morning and afternoon) From September to June Catalan, Spanish and English (depending on the subject) 240 ECTS Basic subjects: 60; compulsory subjects: 104; optional subjects: 52; external internship: 18; bachelor's degree final project: 6 Humanities Itinerary 1 st year 2 nd year 3 rd year 4 th year Total Basic subjects (B) 44 18 62 Compulsory subjects (O) 16 42 40 4 102 Optional subjects (Op) 26 26 52 Internship 18 18 End-of-degree project 6 6 Total 60 60 66 54 240 Politics Itinerary 1 st year 2 nd year 3 rd year 4 th year Total
Basic subjects (B) 44 18 62 Compulsory subjects (O) 16 42 40 4 102 Optional subjects (Op) 26 26 52 Internship 18 18 End-of-degree project 6 6 Total 60 60 66 54 240 Ecomomics Itinerary 1 st year 2 nd year 3 rd year 4 th year Total Basic subjects (B) 40 21 61 Compulsory subjects (O) 20 39 40 4 103 Optional subjects (Op) 26 26 52 Internship 18 18 End-of-degree project 6 6 Total 60 60 66 54 240 Law Itinerary 1 st year 2 nd year 3 rd year 4 th year Total Basic subjects (B) 44 18 62
Compulsory subjects (O) 17 41 40 4 102 Optional subjects (Op) 26 26 52 Internship 18 18 End-of-degree project 6 6 Total 61 59 66 54 240 FIRST YEAR Term Subject Field Type of subject ECTS Description 1 Fonamentals of Journalism Communication B 6 Definition of journalism. Principles, contents, techniques, target audiences, languages and the economics of journalism. The Journalistic genres. Selection and evaluation of information. Profile of the journalist and characteristics of the work of a journalist. Systems of information sources. Introduction to journalistic ethics and deontology. 2 History of Journalism History B 6 Origin, evolution, traditions and most significant models of journalism and of the media, paying special attention to Spain and Catalonia. 3 Structure of Social Communication Communication B 6 The bases of social communication, and especially mass communication, its social functions and different forms of organisation (structures) according to the countries and periods in history.
1 and 2 Language and Informative and Interpretative Genres Language B 8 Journalistic language and style. Journalistic information genres. The news item: structure, edition and headline. Interpretative journalistic genres: chronicle, report, interview, analysis, portrait, echo. Analysis and writing of journalistic texts. 3 Language and Genres of Opinion -- O 4 Argumentative style. Classic rhetoric and new rhetoric. Journalistic genres of opinion (argumentative): article, editorial, column, critique, essay. Analysis and writing of journalistic texts. In the first and second years, students must follow one of the four possible itineraries: Humanities, Political Sciences, Economic Sciences or Law Humanities Itinerary 1 Introduction to History History B 6 Study of the main social processes and cultural events in human history, analysed from a thematic perspective. It is an initiation to the study of history based on key topics: death, birth, the family, slavery, national identity, at different historical moments and geographical locations. 1 Fundamental Topics in Philosophy -- O 4 Introduction to the main problems and genres of philosophy. Familiarisation with the different models of approach, reading and analysis of philosophical works. Reflection as to basic categories of the history of philosophical thought paying special attention to the establishment of the bases of philosophy in the classic era. 2 Introduction to Literary Studies Literature B 6 Introduction to the different methods of analysis and study of
literary text, through a critical approach to the essential topics and texts, with the study of the foundational texts of rhetoric and poetics and with special emphasis given to exemplification through the topics and texts of contemporary literature. It includes knowledge and practical analysis of the literary genres, narrative structures, metrics, rhyme and strophics. 2 Modern History -- O 4 Study of the main social processes and cultural events of the modern world (1500-1848). The subject offers a general synthesis of the history of Europe in the 16 th - 19 th centuries, based on the fundamental subjects that explain the period (the Europe of religious conflicts, the formation of the modern state, the new cultural horizons, economic growth and industrialisation, liberalism and nationalism in the 19 th century). 3 Spanish Literature Literature B 6 Historical and philological study of the main periods, movements, authors and works of Spanish literature. Via a chronological approach to the essential topics and texts, students will study the main contributions of the literary tradition in the Spanish language. It requires a good written and oral command of the Spanish language. 3 Contemporary History -- O 4 Study of the main social processes and cultural events in the contemporary world up until 1945. Political Sciences Itinerary 1 Introduction to Political Political B 6 Introduction to the main
Science Science concepts and different types of politological analyses. 1 Introduction to the History of Contemporary Societies -- O 4 The main social, political, cultural and economic processes of contemporary societies. 2 Introductio to Sociology Sociology B 6 Introduction to the main sociological concepts and methods. Knowledge of the main currents. 2 Political Actors and Institutions -- O 4 Identification and distinction of the basic elements that make up representative democracies. 3 Introduction to Public Administration Political Science B 6 Analysis of the basic principles of the running of public administrations. 3 Constitutional Law -- O 4 The Constitution and legal ordinance. Economic Sciences Itinerary 1 Introduction to Economics Economics B 6 1 Mathematics I -- O 5 During the course, students work on the use of mathematical language and the acquisition of work methods that are especially suitable and useful to officialise economic situations. In particular, the subject develops the basic aspects of mathematical calculation on one variable (with optimisation) and linear algebra most used in economics; to this end, it is, therefore, an instrumental subject in which the mathematical tools that are used are provided, principally, in economic contexts. 2 Macroeconomics I -- O 6
2 and 3 Introduction to l Business Law Law B 8 3 Microeconomics I -- O 5 Law Itinerary 1 Introduction to Legal Studies and Sciences -- O 8 The legal ordinances. Branches of Law. International, community, state and autonomic law. Public and private production of law. The legal system and how it works: the main legal institutions and agents. The resolution of lawsuits: state justice; the law courts; types of legal procedures and the structure of legal processes. Legal documents. Introduction to legistic. Construction and presentation of legal discourse. Legal information resources. Legal science and the main stages in its historical development in the West. 1 and 2 Constitutional Organisation of the State and Sources of Law Law B 9 Basic concepts of the theory of the Constitution and its projection on the principles, institutions and the system of sources established by the 1978 Constitution. The organisation of public power since the principle of the separation of powers: legislative, executive and judicial. The territorial distribution of power in the autonomic State. The principles of the democratic and social State of Law. The international integration of the State: the impact of European integration. Sources of Law: typology and relation between state, autonomic and community ordinance. 2 Fundamental Institutions of Administrative Law -- O 5 Historical circumstances that determine the appearance of
administrative Law and its later development. The main distinctive characteristics of administrative Law. Analysis of the principle of legality, which expresses the full submission of the public administrations to the law and rights, and of the privilege of self-governing powers of the public administrations as essential features of administrative Law in the current constitutional framework. Legal conceptualisation and description of the basic features of the public administrations, as a central axis of administrative Law. 3 Fonamentals of Private and Business Law Law B 9 Private Law in the legal system: civil Law and commercial Law. Private Law and the autonomic system. Forms of intervention and legal remedies in private relations. Interpretation and solution of antinomies in Private Law. Legal relationship, subjective rights, potestative rights and claims. Prescription and limitation. Efficacy and inefficacy of acts of law. Person, capacity and representation. Private autonomy and its limits. Agreed consent and its pathologies. Representation of civil and commercial Law. Basic rules of the Law of obligations. Economic activity and free enterprise. Basic legal system of companies. Market unity. Economic competition. Individual and collective entrepreneurship. Legal statute of the commercial entrepreneur. Commercial compatibility. Commercial registry publicity. Legal personality. Typology. External activity and internal organisational structure.
SECOND YEAR Term Subject Field Type of subject ECTS Description 1 Communication Theories Communication B 6 Study of the different theories on social communication and its application to the analysis of journalistic communication. The social construct of the reality, thematisation, the development of the agenda, etc. 2 Journalistic Documentation Communication B 6 Information architecture and assessment of information resources. Online research. Social navigation. Press databases and image banks. Web positioning. 3 Specialised Journalism -- O 4 General principles of specialised journalistic information and introduction to the thematic areas. 1 Print Journalism Techniques -- O 4 Theoretical and practical knowledge of the design models in the written press as well as the necessary techniques and graphic criteria of evaluation and readability. Learning the basic computer programmes in order to practise design and layout. 2 Internet Journalism -- O 4 Characteristics of the media on Internet and the society that receives them. Main concepts and languages on Internet and on the digitalisation process. Analysis of online communications media and participative phenomena. Basic knowledge of hierarchisation, cataloguing, presentation and writing information in
the digital communications media. 3 Audiovisual Journalism Techniques -- O 6 Introduction to the theoretical and practical specificities of radio and television journalism. Theoretical study and basic experimentation of the elements that constitute the codes pertaining to audiovisual language. Humanities Itinerary 1 Contemporary History II -- O 5 Study of the main social processes and cultural events of the contemporary world as of 1945. 1 Foundations of History and the Theory of Art -- O 4 Introduction to the main artistic techniques and genres. Familiarisation with different models of approach, reading and analysis of works of art. Reflection as to the basic categories of the history and the theory of art. 2 History of Science and Scientific Culture -- O 5 Study of the main stages, movements, authors and works of scientific production of the history of the West, with a preference for the interrelationship between scientific and humanistic discourses in the modern and contemporary eras. A look through the most significant texts in the history of modern and contemporary science. Introduction to determining the affinities between the points of view and developments of science and those of coetaneous art, literature and philosophy or in a relation of synchronicity. 2 Contemporary Art -- O 5 Study of the main stages, authors and works of art of the 20 th century, of their fundamental aesthetic and
philosophical assumptions and of their roots in the previous periods. 3 Catalan Literature Literature B 6 Historical and philological study of the main periods, movements, authors and works of Catalan literature. The course offers a general look at the literary production in the Catalan language, with a selection of authors from all eras and the study of some chosen works. It requires a good written and oral command of the Catalan language. 3 Contemporary Thought -- O 5 Philosophical problems of the contemporary world and of its historical presuppositions. Approach to the philosophy of science, of ethics and contemporary philosophy of politics and law. Political Sciences Itinerary 1 Spanish and Catalan Politics -- O 6 Study of the existing relations between the society and the main players of the Spanish and Catalan political systems. 1 Introduction to International Relations -- O 4 Basic history and concepts of the discipline. The main international players and their relations. 2 Comparative Politics I -- O 4 Comparative study and analysis of different political phenomena. 2 Statistics -- O 6 Basic principles of statistical inference, probability and the distribution of variables. 3 Public Policies I Political Science B 6 Introduction to the analysis of public policies.
3 History of the 20 th Century -- O 4 Study of the main historical processes of the 20 th century. Economic Sciences Itinerary 1 and 2 Economic and Business History Economics B 9 1 Data Analysis -- O 6 The Data Analysis course concentrates on the collection, organization and descriptive analysis of statistical data. This subject is also known as Descriptive Statistics. It is the most basic form of statistics, but it sets the bases for all knowledge of statistics and is therefore of great importance. The competencies acquired, however, in addition to being useful for the future, are also instrumental for the dayto-day in all subjects. In addition, statistics are used in a great many fields such as the communications media, or the administration, and probably students know more than they realised before attending a course on statistics. 2 Economic Organisations and Markets -- O 5 3 Introduction to Financial Accounting -- O 5 3 Seminar Paper -- O 5 Law Itinerary 1 and 2 Criminal Law -- O 9 Theory of punishment. Limits of ius puniendi Introduction to the system of legal consequences Theory of the offence: - Action - Objective and subjective typicity - Iter criminis
Theory of the offence: Types of omission; Authorship and participation; Unlawfulness and culpability; Introduction to the system of exemptions; Mitigating circumstances; Apparent concurring laws and offences and Determining the penalty. 1 Public International Law Law B 6 -The international community and its members. -International treaties. Unilateral acts. -The relations between international Law and home Law. -The subjects of international Law: States, international organisations; other nonstate bodies, the peoples and persons. -Relations between States: territorial competency (the territory, air space, sea space), personal competency. -Diplomatic and consular relations. -Diplomatic protection. - Means of solving controversies: diplomatic means, legal means. -International cooperation. -International responsibility of the States and of individuals. 3 European Constitutional Law -- O 4 3 Fundamental Rights and Freedoms -- O 6 Fundamental Rights of the EC of 1978. Identification of the characteristics that define them. Interpretation by the Constitutional Court and legislative development. Influence of international treaties (specifically the European Human Rights Convention) of European Union Law and of the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European
Communities in the interpretation and development of fundamental rights. 3 Family Law -- O 4 THIRD YEAR Term Subject Field Type of subject ECTS Description 1, 2 and 3 Integrated Journalism Workshop I, II and III -- O 24 (8+8+8) Models of news, models of newspaper, radio and television and "digital press" news. Students take part in ongoing journalistic projects. This subject takes place in the "integrated newsroom", a multipurpose space that simulates the newsroom of a group of news media. Through simulation, students train in the production and the writing and illustration of news of any kind for the different media: the written press, radio, television and Internet. The totally practical nature of this subject and the teamwork are two of its features. Knowledge of hierarchisation, cataloguing, presentation and writing information in the digital communications media is acquired, as well as newsroom organisation. 1 Journalistic Culture -- O 4 Study and analysis of significant historical cases in the application of professional principles and values, in different thematic areas and specialities and in situations of conflict, paying special attention to Spain and Catalonia but the rest of the world too. 2 News Analysis Seminar -- O 4 Analysis and debate on news events and their journalistic processing in
the communications media. 1 Information Law -- O 4 Information and fundamental rights, in accordance with the Spanish Constitution. Legal system of information and communication. Theoretical study and practical cases in messages, media and subjects. 2 Deontology of Journalism -- O 4 Deontological principles of journalistic information and analysis and debate as to its application by analysing current times. FOURTH YEAR Term Subject Field Type of subject ECTS Description 2 and 3 End-of-Degree Project Course types: -Investigative Journalism - Project of a Product or Programme - Analytical Monograph or Theoretical Essay - Experimental Work in UPF Media -- O 6 The end-of-degree project can be done in one of four course types: -By creating a global project or journalistic programme (magazine, radio programme, digital medium...). - By doing a piece of work based on the methodology of investigative journalism and its application to the social reality. -By doing an analytical monograph or theoretical essay based on the techniques of social investigation. -By doing a piece of experimental work on the University's own communications media. 2 Journalistic English -- O 4 The aim is to reach an intermediate-high command of writing techniques in the English language: text structure, compliance with stylistic conventions and formats,
as well as the specific vocabulary of the subject (journalism) and of its appropriate use, including specialist glossary search and implementation (working knowledge). 3 Internship (at a communications medium) -- O 18 Practical internship at a Catalan communications medium, especially. You will join the newsroom of said medium in a concrete section and put into practice the work of a journalist in the same conditions as in professional reality. Optional subjects (in the third or fourth year) Reporting and Journalism Writing Workshop -- Op 8 The tradition of reporting in Catalonia, in Spain and in the western world. Precursors, development and current models. Advanced reporting techniques. Writing reports and other journalistic genres in the written press. Audiovisual Reporting Workshop -- Op 8 Advanced reporting techniques for television and the radio. Analysis and writing of audiovisual journalistic formats, especially the new formats or the hybrids between journalistic genres and between communications macrogenres. Lighting and sound techniques. Design, Graphics and Internet Production Workshop -- Op 8 Making digital audiovisual journalistic products and implementing them in a digital communications medium. Learning of knowledge on hierarchisation, cataloguing, presentation and writing information in the digital communications media. Design, Graphics and Press Production Workshop -- Op 8 Study of the techniques, the processes and the models of setting up the
information dealt with from the analysis of graphics of discourse as added values and value differentiators of press models and of multimedia groups. Journalism Specialized in Local News -- Op 4 Processes of the production of information in the field of local information and processing of the relevant sources. Experimentation and reflection as to professional practice in local communications media. Journalism Specialized in Science and Health -- Op 4 Professional coverage of scientific and medicalhealthcare activity of journalistic interest and the elaboration of quality products on science and medicine. Journalism Specialized in Culture -- Op 4 Professional coverage of cultural activity of journalistic interest and the elaboration of quality products on the different artistic and cultural manifestations. Journalism Specialized in Economics -- Op 4 Professional coverage of the economic activity of journalistic interest and the elaboration of quality products on economic information. Journalism Specialized International News -- Op 4 Professional coverage of international activity of journalistic interest and the elaboration of quality products on events that occur in the international arena. Journalism Specialized in Criminological News -- Op 4 Journalistic treatment of criminal events of general interest and a study of the legal types involved in information. Journalism Specialized in Politics -- Op 4 Professional coverage of political activity of journalistic interest and
the elaboration of quality products on political information. Journalism Specialized in Sports -- Op 4 Professional coverage of sporting events of journalistic interest and the elaboration of quality products on the different manifestations of the field of sport. Journalism Specialized in Technology and the Environment -- Op 4 Professional coverage of information of journalistic interest that is generated with regard to the environment and technologies and the elaboration of quality products on their incidence on human development. Communication Offices -- Op 4 Structure and functioning of communication offices and the elaboration of quality products of journalistic interest on the activity of companies and institutions. Crisis Communication -- Op 4 Study of the concept of the communication of risk and of crisis, the players involved and the main strategies and techniques of communication advised in especially compromising situations. Professional coverage of emergencies and strategies of communication in dialogue between official crisis offices and the communications media. Elaboration of quality products concerning accidents, disasters and crises in general. Communication and Public Opinion -- Op 4 Public space and social communication. Theories on public opinion and the participation of journalism in its organisation. The processes of political communication.
Communication Policies -- Op 4 Public policies for the exercise of the functions of social communication: policies on the media and the system of communication, and analysis of the main debates and theories on the subject today. Research Techniques Applied to Communication -- Op 4 Training in the different qualitative and quantitative methods and procedures of the social sciences, and in the analysis of communication in general and of journalistic work in particular. Digital Art -- Op 4 Study of the historical reference points and of the elements that comprise the language pertaining to digital art, as well as its transversal application in the press, television and Internet. Learning basic computer programmes. Photography and Graphic Reporting -- Op 4 Study of photographic language in journalistic communication from the analysis of its technical and expressive bases. This is dealt with based on a review of history, the authors and fundamental currents and their suitability with regard to the current journalistic models in force. Experssion for the Audiovisual Media -- Op 4 Radio and television broadcasting: voice production, intonation, rhythm and attitude. Pauses and silences. Breath control. Diction and articulation. Improvisation. Comparative Catalan Journalism -- Op 4 Culture, literature and journalism. Professional journalistic thought in Catalonia, in Spain and in the world. The tradition of journalism in Catalonia. Critical approach to the classics
of Catalan journalism and their social acceptance. Methods of journalism: typified, worldly, political, sports, scientific, humourist, war chronicle, profiles and portraits, persuasive journalism, investigative journalism, travel stories, journalistic design, organization and management of newspapers. Dynamic Databases Journalism -- Op 4 The databases that feed the main digital communications media generally lack a journalistic sense in their conceptualization and organisation. Consequently, we propose training that enables designing, implementing and developing the databases that are to feed digital communications media. Management and Administration of Information Companies -- Op 4 Theory and practice of the organization, direction and management of companies and activities involved in information. Communication and Education -- Op 4 Study and experimentation of the audiovisual and written languages and resources for education, and training in the use of such languages and means. Journalistic English (preliminary level) -- Op 4 This optional subject aims to increase the level of command of English of students with less ability to read and write in the language in such a way that they may join, without any major problems, the compulsory English for Journalism course (fourth year, second term). With special emphasis on oral skills, students shall train to give presentations in the classroom in order to develop their ability to converse on issues of current affairs or specific
subjects of the profession of journalism. Optional subjects of the Audiovisual Communication Syllabus Analysis of Images Significance -- Op 4 Basic theories of signification in visual languages. Methods of the semantic analysis of images. Trends in Contemporary Television -- Op 4 Study of the forms, the images and the procedures that characterise contemporary television. Intercultural Communication -- Op 4 Analysis of the phenomenon of interculturality in its communicative aspect. Definition and characteristics of intercultural communication. Study of interculturality in fictitious audiovisual works. Explanation of the changes that interculturality brings about in the new context of globalisation. Programming Policies -- Op 4 Study of the techniques and of the strategies of designing television programming. History of Audiovisual Genres -- Op 4 Conceptualisation and analysis of audiovisual representations, the cinema and television and their development through history. Optional subjects of the Advertising and Public Relations Syllabus Public Relations Techniques -- Op 4 Study of the techniques of direction and management in the field of business and institutional communication. Differential and casuistic treatment of the different techniques according to the receivers of the public relations process.
Internal Communication -- Op 4 Study of the principles of efficacious communication in organisations' internal communication and, especially, analysis of the tools for the planning of internal communication (internal communication plan). Political Communication and Electoral Propaganda -- Op 4 Study of political communication strategies and electoral propaganda in the 20 th and 21 st centuries paying special attention to the analysis of citizens' assessment of political images as receivers of such communication. Public Speaking Techniques -- Op 4 Study and training to communicate orally, fluently and eloquently in the context of professional advertising.