Bachelor
2024/2025
How to Write Short News Items in English
Type:
Elective course (Journalism)
Area of studies:
Journalism
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
2 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Oleg Dmitriev
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The objective of this course is to give students an opportunity to get acquainted with the foundations of writing multimedia texts in English. Special attention will be paid to various types of texts — lead-in, captions, titles, briefs, short TV items (voiceovers), reports, teases for TV and Internet, etc. The students of the course will also have a chanсe to get acquainted with the way the texts are manifested in various multimedia outlets all over the world. During the course the students will also meet jounalists who use Enlish in their everyday work. That will enlarge their scope of knowledge about the profession of the journalist. At the end of the course the students will present final work in the from of a website page or a television report.