JN4003:06
Journalism Literature
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: Completion of BJ or equivalent
26 lectures. First and second semester.
This reading subject is to enrich students’ sense of attachment to a journalistic tradition going beyond routines of work or organisational life, while providing various perspectives on professional issues and mass communication issues generally. The readings will recall achievements of leading writers identified as journalists and investigate the idea of journalistic writing as a mode of literary expression amenable to considerable refinement. The list will include writings by journalists about journalistic issues, or by non-journalists about such issues, or literary work by journalists outside journalism. Typical selection would include works by Ernest Hemingway, Christina Stead, Helen Garner, Kenneth Slessor.
Learning objectives as for JN4011.
Assessment by presentation of reading reports at seminars.