Study plan Bachelor's Degree in Journalism

Basic skills

• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
• Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethic relevant issues.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

• Differentiate the discipline’s main theories, its fields, conceptual developments, theoretical frameworks and approaches that underpin knowledge of the subject and its different areas and sub-areas, and acquire systematic knowledge of the media’s structure.
• Demonstrate adequate knowledge of the modern world and its recent historic development in terms of social, economic, political and cultural aspects.
• Identify modern journalistic traditions in Catalonia, Spain and worldwide and their specific forms of expression, as well as their historic development and the theories and concepts that study them.
• Demonstrate adequate knowledge of Catalonia’s socio-communicative reality in the Spanish, European and global context.
• Be familiar with and apply the theoretical and practical foundations of journalistic writing and narrative and its applications in the different genres, media and formats.
• Relay journalistic information in the language characteristic of each communication medium, in its combined modern forms or on digital media, and apply the genres and different journalistic procedures.
• Design the formal and aesthetic aspects in print, graphic, audiovisual and digital media, and use computer-based techniques to represent information using infographic and documentary systems.
• Design, plan and carry out journalistic projects on all kinds of formats.
• Abide by ethics and the canons of journalism, as well as the regulatory framework governing information.
• Adequately present the findings of the research process in oral, print, audiovisual or digital media forms, in accordance with the canons of journalism.
• Properly apply the scientific method, raising hypotheses regarding journalistic communication, validating and verifying ideas and concepts, and properly citing sources.
• Express oneself fluently and effectively in the two official languages, both orally and in writing.
• Use a third language as a working language and means of professional expression in the media.

Transversal skills

• Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
• Use one’s imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
• Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
• Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
• Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
• Manage time effectively.
• Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
• Value diversity and multiculturalism as a foundation for teamwork.
• Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.