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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:
2023-24
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
Tuesday (11:00h-12:00h)

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

Some students think that getting technical skills is the most important factor to become a proffesional journalist. Nevertheless, ordinary people thinks that the greatest current problem of journalism is the lack of ethics. In fact, people usually don’t trust newspapapers, tv and radio channels or digital media very much nowadays. The reason for their disaffection is not based in journalists technical skills, but in their ethics, as well as in the sense of journalism for our society in these times. Thus, journalism ethics is not more a press organizations matter only, but it has become a social issue. However, journalists must be who assume the main responsability in upholding the ethical values and principles of a socially engaged communication. In order to this, it is necessary that students train in journalism ethics, which isn’t so much an inventory of moral conducts as a space for ethics thinking about journalism principal current problems.

As a consequence of all of this, the present subject is linked with the rest of courses which come under this degree. Focusing on the construction of the moral reality of journalism, this subject helps the students to understand critically their proffesional sphere, as well as to strengthen their commitment to the human rights ethical values, being therefore also related in a special and direct way with the subject ‘Theory of journalism and current world’.


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: 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 the 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: Human Knowledge and Comunication Development
    • Unit 4.1: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
    • Unit 4.2: Historicism: "that's how things are, that's how we told you". Mind as a Mirror of the World
    • Unit 4.3: The Copernican Revolution of Kant. Reality and Phenomenons: facts and happenings
    • Unit 4.4: The Social Construction of Reality
    • Unit 4.5: Linguistic Turn and Postmodernity
    • Unit 4.6: Habermas: neither Dogmatism nor Relativism
  • Unit 5: Case-Studies: Seminar
    • Unit 5.1: Poverty in the World and Vulnerable Groups
    • Unit 5.2: Objective Observer or Committed Journalist?
    • Unit 5.3: Journalism and Economic Powers
    • Unit 5.4: The Journalist and her/his Sources
    • Unit 5.5: Masked Journalism?
    • 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: Journalism and Artificial Intelligence
  • Unit 6: Ethical Evaluation of Journalistic Works
    • Unit 6.1: Development of an Observation Grid
    • Unit 6.2: Application of Ethical Criteria in the Evaluation of Journalistic Works
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 Lessons on the main contents of the subject
Workshops or seminars [ON-SITE] Workshops and Seminars E02 E04 E05 E07 E16 E17 E18 G04 G05 G07 G09 G11 0.96 24 Y N Analysis of most relevant problematic cases on journalism practice
Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE] Combination of methods E02 E04 E05 E07 E16 E17 E18 G04 G05 G07 G09 G11 1.6 40 Y Y - Construction of a New - Informs Development - Analysis of Cases
Group tutoring sessions [ON-SITE] Guided or supervised work E04 E05 E18 G04 0.6 15 Y N Guidance of Case Studies
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] Self-study E02 E04 E07 E16 E18 G04 G07 G11 2 50 Y Y Works Development and Participation in the Seminar on Ethical Problems in the Practice of Journalism
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% Making a Story on the Poverty in the World enforcing Ethical Criteria
Theoretical papers assessment 0.00% 25.00% Development a Learning Guide and Summarizes of the Fundamental Issues on topics 1, 2, 3 and 4
Projects 0.00% 30.00% Substitute Work for replacing the Participation in the Seminar on Ethical Problems in the Practice of Journalism
Portfolio assessment 10.00% 10.00% Collecting top important 10 Ethical Principles which should guide the journalist addressing the main ethical problems
Progress Tests 25.00% 0.00% Questions on the subjects 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% Development an Evaluation Analysis on the Context of the Poverty in the Third World
Fieldwork assessment 10.00% 10.00% Writing a Story on another Ethical Problem enforcing the Ethical Criteria learnt on the Subject
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:
    - There is not required minimum grade on each exercise, nor in the final test, to pass the subject.
    - Approved qualifications will be kept for extraordinary calling and next year callings.
    - Plagiarism and ordinary spell-check regulations of the Degree will be applied.
    - Once the Professor has some doubt about authorship of a work, he can determine the necessity of requiring the student to make an oral presentation and interview test on his or her work in order to ascertain its authenticity and accuracy.
    - Students who participate in the Activity Ethics Observatory could increase up to 20% their final grade. In order to get this increasing Seminar Classes Attendance must be over 80%.
  • Non-continuous evaluation:
    - There is not required minimum grade on each exercise, nor in the final test, to pass the subject.
    - Approved qualifications will be kept for extraordinary calling and next year callings.
    - Plagiarism and ordinary spell-check regulations of the Degree will be applied.
    - Once the Professor has some doubt about authorship of a work, he can determine the necessity of requiring the student to make an oral presentation and interview test on his or her work in order to ascertain its authenticity and accuracy.

Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
- There is not required minimum grade on each exercise, nor in the final test, to pass the subject.
- Approved qualifications will be kept for next year callings.
- Plagiarism and ordinary spell-check regulations of the Degree will be applied.
- Once the Professor has some doubt about authorship of a work, he can determine the necessity of requiring the student to make an oral presentation and interview test on his or her work in order to ascertain its authenticity and accuracy.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
- There is not required minimum grade on each exercise, nor in the final test, to pass the subject.
- Approved qualifications from previous callings will have been kept for this calling.
- Plagiarism and ordinary spell-check regulations of the Degree will be applied.
- Once the Professor has some doubt about authorship of a work, he can determine the necessity of requiring the student to make an oral presentation and interview test on his or her work in order to ascertain its authenticity and accuracy.
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): Human Knowledge and Comunication Development
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] 22
Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Combination of methods] 26
Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] 8
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 14
Teaching period: 7 weeks

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

Global activity
Activities hours
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