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Journalism 199 (Research in Journalism)
Summer, AY 2000-2001
COURSE OUTLINE
Course Description:
The course is designed to prepare the students to undertake an independent research project in the field of journalism. The project will be a systematic study aimed at shedding new light on the processes, institutions and changes going on in contemporary Philippine journalism. Topics for research will include investigations in tri-media journalism; in addition, research into the newer electronic media will be encouraged. The students' final output will be a research proposal which they will use in their thesis writing course, Journalism 200.
Course Objectives:
At the end of the semester, the students will be able to:
- discuss the nature of research using paradigms in current use in the social sciences;
- identify issues and problems in contemporary Philippine journalism that could be their research topics; and
- prepare a thesis proposal which contains an introduction, a review of related literature, a study framework, one or more methodologies appropriate for the study; and a plan of action outlining how the investigation will take place.
Course Outline:
I. The nature of research: Current issues in communication research
- Learning from previous researches
- Joining the ongoing research "conversation"
II. The research question: Problem and question formulation
- Finding, choosing and formulating the research question
- Identifying concepts and variables to be studied
- Identifying theories that may point to answers to the research question
III. The research plan: Methods and concerns about data construction
- Methods of investigation: quantitative and qualitative methods
- Data construction, analysis and synthesis
- Data presentation
- Conclusions and recommendations
IV. The research proposal
- Organizing and structuring the research proposal
- Characteristics of research writing
- Checklist for evaluating an acceptable research proposal
Suggested Readings:
- Anderson, James A. (1987). Communication Research: Issues and Methods. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
- Attig, Bencha et al. (1993). Qualitative Methods for Population and Health Research. Bangkok: Institute for Population and Social Research.
- Bautista, Ma. Lourdes S. and Go, Stella P. (1992, 3rd printing). Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods. Manila: De La Salle University Press.
- Booth, Wayne; Colomb, Gregory; and Williams, Joseph M. (1995). The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Frey, Lawrence R. (1991). Investigating Communication: An introduction to research methods. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
- Jensen, Klaus Bruhn and Jankowski, Nicholas W. (1991). A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research. London: Rutledge.
- Maxwell, J. A. (1996). Qualitative Research Design: An interactive approach. London: Sage Publications.
- Miles, Matthew and Huberman, Michael. (1994). Qualitative Data Analysis: A sourcebook of new methods. London: Sage Publications.
- Priest, Susanna H. (1995). Doing Media Research: An introduction. London: Sage Publications.
- Schutt, Russell K. (1996). Investigating the Social World. California: Sage Publications.
- Wimmer Roger D. and Dominick, Joseph R. (1994). Mass Media Research: An introduction. California: International Thomson Publishing, Fourth Edition.
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