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1. General information
Course:
ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Code:
16322
Type:
CORE COURSE
ECTS credits:
6
Degree:
377 - UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN JOURNALISM
Academic year:
2021-22
Center:
12 - FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Group(s):
30 
Year:
3
Duration:
First semester
Main language:
Spanish
Second language:
English
Use of additional languages:
English Friendly:
Y
Web site:
Bilingual:
N
Lecturer: IGNACIO ESCUTIA DOMÍNGUEZ - Group(s): 30 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanidades 5.02; Facultad de Comunicación 1.06
FILOSOFÍA, ANTROPOL, SOCIOL Y ESTÉTICA
Ignacio.Escutia@uclm.es

Lecturer: FRANCISCO JAVIER ESPINOSA ANTON - Group(s): 30 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Humanidades 5.02; Periodismo 2.14. Vicedecanato Humanidades
FILOSOFÍA, ANTROPOL, SOCIOL Y ESTÉTICA
4338
javier.espinosa@uclm.es

2. Pre-Requisites

There are none

3. Justification in the curriculum, relation to other subjects and to the profession


By directing attention to the construction of the moral reality of the profession of this degree, this subject helps the student to the critical understanding of the journalism and to the strengthening of his commitment with the ethical values of the human rights.


4. Degree competences achieved in this course
Course competences
Code Description
E02 Capacity and ability to fluently and effectively express and communicate both orally and in writing, by adequately using the most appropriate linguistic and literary resources to each communication medium.
E04 Capacity to read and analyse specialised texts and documents on any relevant topic, and to summarise or adapt them using language or vocabulary understandable to the general public.
E05 Basic capacity to understand informative or communicative production, either written or audiovisual, in standard English.
E07 Capacity and ability to express reasoned ideas by using rhetoric and contributions from new argumentation theories, as well as communicative techniques applied to persuasion.
E16 Critical knowledge of media influence on Education and of the relation of the media with schools, as well as of the potential of the new Information and Communication Technologies and multimedia systems for development of off-site learning and knowledge.
E17 Knowledge of current sciences, capacity to analyse their informative and communicative processing and ability to convey such knowledge and progress to a vast non-specialised public in an understandable and efficient manner.
E18 Egalitarian awareness with regards to individuals and peoples, respect for international human rights, and knowledge of the great cultural or civilising trends related to individual and collective fundamental values.
G04 Ethical commitment and professional ethics.
G05 Gain knowledge and understanding of Journalism by acquiring rational and critical knowledge of world current affairs in order to understand social phenomena that occur in society today.
G07 Interpret relevant data, such as key events and processes that take place in today's societies, from a synchronic perspective. The scope of this kind of knowledge should be as wide as possible, since it contributes to developing the ability to understand diversity and to fostering civic awareness and respect for alien value systems.
G09 Develop the abilities required for Journalism and Communications in general, in order to pursue further postgraduate and professional retraining studies.
G11 Gain insight into the most relevant concepts, categories, theories and topics of the different subfields of Information & Communications research.
5. Objectives or Learning Outcomes
Course learning outcomes
Not established.
Additional outcomes
Description
To know the construction of values in ethics.
To strength commitment to human rights.
To know the principles of professional ethics.
To know the main codes of ethics in journalism.
To learn how to apply the principles of professional ethics.
To know how to apply the codes of ethics in journalism.
To commit to an ethical journalism.
To know how to find an ethical way in the complex world of this profession.
To know how to analyze journalistic products from an ethical standpoint.
6. Units / Contents
  • Unit 1: Journalism and democracy
    • Unit 1.1: Public sphere, public opinion and democracy
    • Unit 1.2: The journalism's role in democracy
    • Unit 1.3: Structural problems of the public sphere, public opinion and journalism
    • Unit 1.4: Current challenges
  • Unit 2: Ethics and human rights
    • Unit 2.1: Ethics as construction rather than as a discovery
    • Unit 2.2: Some moral principles of human thought history
    • Unit 2.3: The human rights
  • Unit 3: Professional ethics and journalism
    • Unit 3.1: Professions and principles of professional ethics
    • Unit 3.2: General principles of Media ethics and self-regulation instruments
  • Unit 4: Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity
    • Unit 4.1: The mind as a mirror of the world.
    • Unit 4.2: The social construction of reality
    • Unit 4.3: Linguistic turn and Postmodernity
    • Unit 4.4: Habermas: neither dogmatism nor relativism
    • Unit 4.5: The Copernican revolution of Kant
    • Unit 4.6: Walter Cronkite: "And that's the way it is"
  • Unit 5: Case studies: seminar
    • Unit 5.1: Journalism in the third World
    • Unit 5.2: Objective observer or committed journalist?
    • Unit 5.3: Journalism and economic powers
    • Unit 5.4: The journalist's sources
    • Unit 5.5: Masked journalist?
    • Unit 5.6: Journalism and personal privacy
    • Unit 5.7: Journalism and political power
    • Unit 5.8: The journalist's relationship with victims of tragedy
    • Unit 5.9: journalism and discrimination against women
    • Unit 5.10: Photojournalism
    • Unit 5.11:
  • Unit 6: Ethical evaluation of journalistic products
    • Unit 6.1: Construction of an observation grid
    • Unit 6.2: Application of ethical criteria to the evaluation of journalistic products
7. Activities, Units/Modules and Methodology
Training Activity Methodology Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) ECTS Hours As Com Description
Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] Lectures E18 G04 G05 G07 0.84 21 N N
Workshops or seminars [ON-SITE] Workshops and Seminars E02 E04 E05 E07 E16 E17 E18 G04 G05 G06 G07 G08 G09 G11 G15 0.96 24 Y N
Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE] Combination of methods E02 E04 E05 E07 E16 E17 E18 G04 G05 G06 G07 G08 G09 G11 G15 1.6 40 Y Y
Group tutoring sessions [ON-SITE] Guided or supervised work E04 E05 E18 G04 G06 0.6 15 Y N
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] Self-study E02 E04 E07 E16 E18 G04 G07 G08 G11 2 50 Y Y
Total: 6 150
Total credits of in-class work: 2.4 Total class time hours: 60
Total credits of out of class work: 3.6 Total hours of out of class work: 90

As: Assessable training activity
Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming (It will be essential to overcome both continuous and non-continuous assessment).

8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
Evaluation System Continuous assessment Non-continuous evaluation * Description
Fieldwork assessment 10.00% 10.00%
Theoretical papers assessment 0.00% 25.00% Summary of different book chapters that replaces the Learning Guide
Projects 0.00% 30.00% Substitute piece of work for the Seminar on Ethical Problems of Journalism
Portfolio assessment 10.00% 10.00% The 10 most important ethical ideas/principles that should guide the journalist in addressing the main ethical problems
Progress Tests 25.00% 0.00% Learning Guide that consists of the fundamental issues of topics 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Other methods of assessment 30.00% 0.00% Seminar on Ethical Problems of Journalism
Fieldwork assessment 15.00% 15.00% Assessment of Third World News and Writing its own Piece of News using Ethical Criteria
Fieldwork assessment 10.00% 10.00% Writing of a piece of news about another ethical problem applying the ethical criteria learned
Total: 100.00% 100.00%  
According to art. 4 of the UCLM Student Evaluation Regulations, it must be provided to students who cannot regularly attend face-to-face training activities the passing of the subject, having the right (art. 12.2) to be globally graded, in 2 annual calls per subject , an ordinary and an extraordinary one (evaluating 100% of the competences).

Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
  • Continuous assessment:
    It is not necessary to obtain a minimum mark in each procedure of evaluation to pass.
  • Non-continuous evaluation:
    Evaluation criteria not defined

Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
It is not necessary to obtain a minimum mark in each procedure of evaluation to pass.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
Evaluation criteria not defined
9. Assignments, course calendar and important dates
Not related to the syllabus/contents
Hours hours

Unit 1 (de 6): Journalism and democracy
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 6
Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] 2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 9
Teaching period: 2 weeks

Unit 2 (de 6): Ethics and human rights
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 6
Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] 2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 12
Teaching period: 2 weeks

Unit 3 (de 6): Professional ethics and journalism
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 6
Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] 2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 12
Teaching period: 2 weeks

Unit 4 (de 6): Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3
Teaching period: 1 weeks

Unit 5 (de 6): Case studies: seminar
Activities Hours
Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Workshops and Seminars] 21
Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Combination of methods] 26
Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] 7
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 14
Teaching period: 7 weeks

Unit 6 (de 6): Ethical evaluation of journalistic products
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1
Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Workshops and Seminars] 3
Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Combination of methods] 14
Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] 2
Teaching period: 1 weeks

Global activity
Activities hours
10. Bibliography and Sources
Author(s) Title Book/Journal Citv Publishing house ISBN Year Description Link Catálogo biblioteca
 
AGEJAS, José Ángel y SERRANO OCEJAS, Francisco José Ética de la Comunicación y de la Información Barcelona Ariel 2002  
AZNAR, H. Nuevas pautas y recomendaciones para unos medios más éticos Información para la paz autocrítica de los medios y responsabilidad del público Valencia 2005 https://repositorioinstitucional.ceu.es/bitstream/10637/7531/1/Nuevas%20pautas%20y%20recomendaciones%20para%20unos%20medios%20m%C3%A1s%20%C3%A9ticos.pdf  
AZNAR, H. Nuevos códigos de ética y nuevas formas de entender el periodismo Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 58 2004 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/20042158aznar.htm  
AZNAR, Hugo Ética de la comunicación y nuevos retos sociales. Códigos y recomendaciones para los medios Barcelona Ariel 2005  
AZNAR, Hugo Comunicación responsable. La autorregulación de los medios Barcelona Ariel 2005  
BANERJEE, A. V. y DUFLO, E. Repensar la pobreza. Un giro radical en la lucha contra la desigualdad global Madrid Taurus 2019  
BARROSO, P. Ética y Deontología Informática Madrid Fraguas 2007  
BETTETINI, Gianfranco y FUMAGALLI, Armando Lo que queda de los medios. Ideas para una ética de la comunicación Pamplona EUNSA 2001  
BONETE PERALES, Enrique (coord.) Éticas de la Información y Deontologías del Periodismo Madrid Tecnos 1995  
BONETE PERALES, Enrique (coord.) Ética de la Comunicación Audiovisual Madrid Tecnos 1997  
BROWN, F. Journalism Ethics. A Casebook of Professional Conduct for News Media Portland Marion Street Press 2011  
CARDEÑOSA, Bruno W de Wikileaks. La venganza contra las mentiras del poder Barcelona Libros Cúpula 2011  
CONILL, Jesús y GOZÁLVEZ, Vicente (coords.) Ética de los medios. Una apuesta por la ciudadanía audiovisual Barcelona Gedisa 2004  
DANTO, A. Think-point-shoot : media ethics, technology and global change New York Routledge 2017  
DIEZHANDINO, P., MARINAS, J. M. y Watt, N. Ética de la comunicación: problemas y recursos Madrid Edipo 2002  
ESPINOSA, J. ¿Universalismo moral de la Ilustración versus multiculturalismo en las sociedades del siglo XXI? Logos 2009 pp. 219-241 https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASEM/article/view/ASEM0909110219A  
FRAZER, N. Transnacionalización de la esfera pública: sobre la legitimidad y la eficacia de la opinión pública en un mundo poswestfaliano Escalas de justicia Barcelona Herder 2008  
GOTTBERG, J. von y PROMMER, E. (eds.) Verlorene Werte?: Medien und die Entwicklung von Ethik und Moral Konstanz UVK 2008  
GREVISSE, B. Déontologie du journalisme. Enjeux éthiques et identités professionnelles Bruselas De Boeck 2010  
HABERMAS, J. ¿Cuán racional es la autoridad del deber? La inclusión del otro. Estudios de teoría política Barcelona Paidós 1999  
HORTAL, A. Ética general de las profesiones Bilbao Desclée de Brouwer 2002 Capítulos 5, 6, 7 y 8  
HORTAL, A. y FERNÁNDEZ, J. L. Ética de las profesiones Madrid U.P.C. 1994  
JAREÑO ALARCÓ, Joaquín Ética y periodismo Bilbao Desclée de Brouwer 2009  
JEDLICKA, Peter Medienverantwortung durch Nachrichtenauswahl LULU.com 978-1-4716-0032-6 2012 Ficha de la biblioteca
JIMÉNEZ, R. Cien casos : la ética periodística en tiempos de precariedad Barcelona Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona 2016  
KAPUSCINSKI, R. Los cínicos no sirven para este oficio. Sobre el buen periodismo Barcelona Anagrama 2002  
KEEBLE, R. Ethics for journalists Londres/Nueva York Routledge 2009  
KNOWLTON, S. y READER, B. Moral reasoning for journalists Londres Praeger Publishers 2009  
LIPPMANN, Walter Libertad y prensa Madrid Tecnos 2011  
MERRILL, John Media Ethics Nueva York St. Martin's Press 1997  
MEYERS, Ch. (ed.) Journalism Ethics. A Philosophical Approach Nueva York Oxford Univ. Press 2010  
PILGERT, John (ed.) ¡Basta de mentiras! El periodismo de investigación que está cambiando el mundo Barcelona RBA 2007  
POGGE, Th. La pobreza en el mundo y los derechos humanos Barcelona Paidós 2005  
PÉREZ FUENTES, Juan Carlos (ed.) Ética periodística. Principios, códigos deontológicos y normas complementarias Bilbao Univ. País Vasco 2004  
RUBIALES, Francisco Periodistas sometidos. Los perros del poder Córdoba Almuzara 2009  
RUIZ, Carlos La agonía del cuarto poder. Prensa contra democracia Barcelona Trípodos 2008  
SERRANO, Pascual Perlas 2. Patrañas, disparates y trapacerías en los medios de comunicación Barcelona El Viejo Topo 2007  
SMITH, R. F. Ethics in Journalism Malden (USA) Blackwell 2008  
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST Journalism Ethics. A Casebook of Professional Conduct for News Media Portland Marion Street Press 2011  



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