On (not) teaching journalism: The experience at UCT
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2005
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Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
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Taylor & Francis
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University of Cape Town
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The University of Cape Town established a major in Media & Writing in 2002 and a Centre for Film and Media Studies in 2003. Currently the centre takes responsibility for two majors (Film Studies and Media & Writing) and five streams within an undergraduate Film and Media Production Programme: in print production; film and television production; multi-media production; scriptwriting; and radio (from 2005). It also has nominal control of the MFA and the Institute for Film and New Media on the Hiddingh Campus, but this course and institute are under the effective leadership of Drama and Fine Art. The two majors have attracted large numbers of students and both rank among the six largest majors in the Humanities Faculty: we have about 240 students in the third-year media courses and 150 in the third-year film courses. The majors and the programme have attracted significant numbers of high-quality white and black matriculants to UCT, with our students having significantly higher entrance points than the faculty average.1 In addition, the centre has a small but growing number of research postgraduates registered for MAs and PhDs, and runs three postgraduate programmes: one in Film Studies; one in Film Theory and Practice; and an Honours/MA programme in Media Theory and Practice.
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Glenn, I. (2005). On (not) teaching journalism: The experience of UCT. Ecquid Novi, 26(2), 253-258.