The teaching methodology of this course is based on Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), encompassing both theoretical and practical components. This is an innovative educational approach that places students in real-world professional scenarios with the aim of developing skills such as critical thinking and creativity. Through these tools, students are required to find solutions to the challenges posed by the instructor or by themselves, always under the guidance of the teaching staff. In this course, particular emphasis is placed on teamwork.

The course will be basically practical, although it has a few theoretical hours in which it will be explained how production is being done today in the media and specific successful audiovisual products. These classes can have the presence of a guest who will explain his work.

All the practices will be exercises that the students will find on a day-to-day basis in the media and in the exercise of the profession. There will be two large practices that will have to be carried out during a good part of the semester, and then others that will be carried out during the three hours of class, and others that will have a week of preparation and execution.

Although the basis of the subject is the part of journalistic production, that is, the entire process prior to the execution of a report or interview, it will also be valued that the final product is well done.

You will work in groups of 5 people, although there will be some exercises where the groups will have to be smaller to be more efficient.

A detailed schedule outlining the content of each session will be presented on the first day of the course and will be available on the course’s Virtual Campus, where students will find the various teaching materials deemed appropriate by the instructors and necessary information for effective course monitoring. Should the teaching modality change for reasons of force majeure according to the competent authorities, the teaching staff will inform students of any modifications to the course schedule and teaching methodologies.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

This course/module does not provide for a single-assessment system.

Continuous assessment will consist of three components: Theoretical content; practical assignments (worth 75% of the final grade); and participation and engagement, particularly in guest lectures and class activities

Students must complete six practical assignments, each contributing proportionally to the total 75%.

The theoretical exam will require students to resolve, in writing, issues related to concepts covered in class.

Instructors will inform students of their grades for each assignment within a maximum of three weeks. Weekly group feedback sessions will also be held. Students may request individual review sessions (office hours) if they wish to discuss or contest their grades.

Students will be entitled to reassessment in the course if they have been evaluated on a set of activities accounting for at least two-thirds of the total course grade (i.e., at least four out of the six practical assignments).

However, not all assignments are eligible for resubmission. The two long-term projects are non-recoverable. The other four assignments and the theoretical exam may be retaken.

Plagiarism:

The student who performs any irregularity (copying, plagiarism, identity theft,...) will be graded with 0 for this act of evaluation. In the event that various irregularities occur, the final grade for the course will be 0.

Use of AI:

For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for [specify tasks, for example: Support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches, text correction, or translations. Students must clearly identify any parts generated with these technologies, specify the tools used, and include a critical reffection on how AI has inffuenced the process and final outcome of the assignment. Failure to disclose the use of AI in this assessed activity will be considered a breach of academic integrity and may result in a partial or total penalty to the assignment grade, or more serious sanctions in severe cases.

The performance of any irregularity in an evaluation act (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless this use is expressly authorized by the teaching guide), which may lead to a significant variation in the grade, assumes that this act will be graded with a 0. In the event that the teaching guide foresees that in order to pass the subject it is an essential requirement to have obtained a minimum grade in this evaluation act or that there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject is 0. Apart from this, a disciplinary process may be instructed to the student that incurs any of these irregularities.