Course Archive

The course focuses on Web 2.0 platforms, which have become not only a challenge for the media but also a valuable tool in journalistic practice.

The course was taught to Journalism students in their seventh semester. It comprised 116 hours in total, including 48 classroom hours: 14 hours of lectures, 18 hours of laboratory classes, and 16 hours of supervised independent study.

Upon completing the course, students were expected to have developed the broad outlook and competencies necessary to devise a social media strategy independently and implement it in practice.

The course introduces students to the national interests of the Republic of Belarus and to the external and internal threats that could impede their realization.

The course was taught in the fourth semester to master’s students majoring in Journalism. It comprised 124 hours in total, including 42 classroom hours: 30 hours of lectures, 10 hours of seminars, and 2 hours of supervised independent study.

The course introduced students to national security issues, key policy documents, and organizations working in this field. This knowledge enables students to take the national interests of the Republic of Belarus into account in their academic and journalistic work and to provide professional media coverage of national security issues.

The course taught students the principal methods, technologies, and tools for monitoring and analysing the information environment.

It was taught in the fifth semester to students majoring in Journalism (Web Journalism). The course comprised 90 hours in total, including 34 classroom hours: 8 hours of lectures, 24 hours of laboratory classes, and 2 hours of supervised independent study.

The course was designed to develop students’ information analysis, research, and briefing skills. These competencies can be applied both in academic research and in professional work as a journalist or media analyst.

Students were encouraged to view the information environment as a human habitat and to assess the sociocultural consequences of the expansion of emerging communication technologies.

This specialist course for students majoring in Journalism (Print Media) was launched in 2011. It comprised 34 classroom hours: 14 hours of lectures, 16 hours of seminars, and 4 hours of supervised independent study.

The course aimed to help future journalists develop a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the media environment and their place within it. It also developed practical skills for counteracting the harmful effects of negative phenomena in the media environment.

This specialist course introduced future journalists to the sociopsychological and cultural phenomena of cyberspace.

The elective course was developed and piloted in 2012 for students majoring in Journalism (Print Media). It comprised 34 classroom hours: 14 hours of lectures, 16 hours of seminars, and 4 hours of supervised independent study.

An understanding of cyberspace and its communication principles enables media professionals to integrate more successfully into the online environment and distribute content more effectively.

A course for web journalists responsible for managing a media organization’s social media presence and for gathering and distributing information through Web 2.0 services.

The specialist course has been offered since 2013 to third- and fourth-year students majoring in Journalism (Web Journalism).

It was designed to provide the knowledge and skills required for the professional use of Web 2.0 platforms in journalism and for developing a media organization’s social media strategy.