Journalism and Social Communications Programme
BA degree programme
WSUS students, on their graduation and due to the knowledge acquired during the course of their studies in social sciences and in methods and techniques of communicating, will possess professional skills and competences, which they will find useful and sufficient while organising activities related to building information systems for any entities of social, political and economic life in relation to their environments.
Full-time students during their first year of study take general compulsory courses. Click here to get more information on the courses and their ECTS credits. As of the second year of study they can choose one of the following specializations:
Specialisation: Journalism
On graduation, after a three-year BA degree programme in journalism where theoretical and practical classes/workshops are run by experienced press, radio and television journalists, WSUS graduates can successfully find employment in the field of media or in public relations as spokespersons for firms and institutions, or in advertising and marketing agencies. Students leave the School enriched and equipped with knowledge on contemporary political, social, economic, cultural and media reality.
Specialisation: Editing
WSUS graduates with BA degree in editing are thoroughly trained and get their editorial competences in the complex preparation of a text for printing. They are potential future staff members in the publication market.
Specialisation: Information Broker
WSUS graduates with BA degree in information broker are thoroughly trained and get their competences in professional searching, verifying and disseminating all sorts of information; For more information click here.
They will use effectively the most modern informational and searching systems (Horizon, VTLS, Sowa, MOL etc.) that help to organize work of contemporary science information centres and also prepare databases on different carriers (print, CD-ROM/DVD or online). They will learn how to organise access to external Polish and foreign sources of electronic information (e.g. on-line books, periodicals or fulltext databases) and how to function and use programs processing their own information services.
They will be familiar with digital techniques, mass memory, metadata structures and with management of digital libraries and their contents. Students will be equipped with skills they can find useful in e-CultureNet.
The proposed system and scope of education take into consideration current changes in Polish and world science information structures, which are more and more often becoming modern archiving or information management centres that use in their activities electronic technologies, including the Internet. Thus, students that take this specialisation will be well prepared for a job with a future, a new one on the Polish job market that allows for creating individual job places by means of self-employment.
Whether a particular specialisation is carried out during a given academic school year depends on the number of students that are interested in taking a particular specialisation. BA titles are granted on a successful pass in the diploma examination pursuant to section VII, articles 41-48 of the School’s Regulations.
Supplementary Master’s Studies (second-cycle degree programme) The supplementary Master’s degree programme in the field of Journalism and Social Communications at the Poznan School of Social Sciences is indented to prepare students to work in all areas of social communications e.g.: as spokespersons or promotion and advertising specialists and to meet new challenges related to the development and expansion of mass media communications in social life. There is a big demand for press and media officers with a good working knowledge and applied communication skills in order to cooperate with media, and create a proper media image, personal marketing and cooperation with media institutions that run their educational activities. Click here to get more information on the courses and their ECTS credits.
Graduates of the supplementary Master’s degree programme in the field of Journalism and Social Communications are thoroughly prepared to work as journalists and also to undertake duties not only related to press, radio or television but also to public institutions, advertising and promotion agencies and institutes that run educational activities.
The supplementary Master’s studies are the continuation of BA studies. MA titles are granted in the field of Journalism and Social Communications on successful pass in the diploma examination pursuant to section VII, articles 41-48 of the School’s Regulations.
Diploma examination
Students are required to complete all course units and obtain a credit or a pass in all subjects according to the obligatory curriculum (lectures, seminars and classes) and also obtain a positive grade for their diploma theses before they can take the final diploma examinations, which are carried out by a commission appointed by the Dean. Members of the commission are: a chairman, a diploma thesis supervisor and its reviewer. The date of the examination is determined by the Dean.
The diploma thesis is an oral examination. The final grade is the sum of the following: ½ of arithmetic mean of all pass and exam grades that are part of the obligatory curriculum; ¼ of diploma thesis grade and ¼ of diploma examination grade.
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