Program for Master ofJournalism
1、Objectives
The specialty, which helps students’ to analyze problems with the basic views ofMarxism- Leninism, Mao Zedong Thoughtand Deng Xiaoping Theory, to uphold the basic line of the Communist Party of China,to understand theessence of spirit and methodology of “Three Represents”, to have a grasp of basic theory and knowledge of literatureand journalism and crossed scopes of the two majors.With these qualities, students will have independentresearchability and practical capability of journalism communication. Studentsare required to publish fairlyhigh-quality academic achievements or gain fairly high-quality practical achievements in graduate school. Students should have a good command of one foreign language and lovetheir specialty; being physically and mentally healthy; havesolid professional knowledge with certain theoretical quality and practicalability. After graduation, they can be competent for teaching, scientific research and practicalwork of their specialty.
Ⅰ、Orientation
1. Theory and Practice of Journalism
2. New Media Research
3. Public Sentiment and Crisis Communication Research
Ⅱ、Duration and Courses
（Ⅰ）Duration
Masterstudents undergo a 3-year full-time academic program. Students cangraduate in advance or extend the study time accordingly. Length of study isnot more than 6 years.
（Ⅱ）Curriculum
The master courses include Common Courses,Discipline Basic Courses and Specialized Core Courses. Common Courses includeCommon Compulsory Courses and Common Optional Courses. The former includespolitical theories, foreign languages and so on. The latter includes researchmethod courses. Discipline Basic Courses are Degree Courses. Liberal arts areset up by the first-level discipline, while the science and engineering by thesecond-level discipline that includes one research method course.SpecializedCore Courses include compulsory courses offered by subject groups and optionalcourses which pointed to research orientation. Selecting courses set up byother disciplines or specialties is encouraged.
Curriculum evaluation is divided into examinationand inspection.The examination uses a percentage grading system. Inspection isscored according to the rating system.
The total credits required for this specialtyshould be at least 37 , and the credits for each course should not be less thanthe following requirements. After completing that they will be allowed to go into dissertation oral defense.
Political theory courses of Common Courses include Theory and Practiceof Socialism with ChineseCharacteristics(2 credits),Marxism and social sciencemethodology(Designated optional course for Humanities and Social Sciencepostgraduates,1 credit), The Outline of Dialectics of Nature(Designatedoptional course for science and engineering and medical postgraduates, 1credit), 4 credits for public foreign language, Discipline and Ethics inAcademic Research for self-accessstudy assessed online with no credit to be calculated.
The optional part of Common Courses include “ASecond Foreign Language”, “Computer Application” ,“Document RetrievalTechnology”, “Method of Social Research optional courses”,postgraduates can take one among the optional courses.(2 credits)
Students should get at least 9 credits forDiscipline Basic Courses; 11 credits for Specialized Core Courses(compulsorycourses);6 credits for Specialized Core Courses(optional courses);2 credits forinterdisciplinary or cross-specialty courses(optional courses).
（Ⅲ） Remedial Courses
As for interdisciplinary students (in principle, spanningdisciplines of level-one between undergraduate majors and master majors can berecognized as interdisciplinary) and master students enrolled who have theequivalent degree, the tutor decides whether to make up the relevant courses ofthis specialty according to the grades of undergraduate courses andrequirements of current specialty. The credits of the remedial courses arecalculated separately, which can not replace the prescribed credits.
（Ⅳ） Basic Literature Reading Ability Training
Postgraduates should have the basic literaturereading ability of their specialty. See the catalogue for details. Basicliterature reading ability training is a compulsory part of the education, but studentsearn no credit by taking the course.
(Ⅴ)Research Ethics and Academic Standardization Training, Practice and Basic Abilityof Scientific Research Training
Academic activities, practice and scientificresearch training are important parts in the education of postgraduates.Practice and scientific research training include teaching practice, scientificresearch practice and social practice. Research ethics and academicstandardization training are mainly self-study.
Academic activities include various kinds ofacademic lectures, forums, contests and so on. All master students are requiredto participate in academic activities. Teaching practice includes teaching, tutoring, organizing classdiscussions, guiding experiment, correcting homework and experiment report,guiding graduation dissertation, etc. All master students are required toparticipate in teaching practice or scientific research practice. At the sametime, liberal arts master students are required to participate in socialactivities. Practice. Practice and basic scientific research ability trainingare necessary segments in education, but studentsearn no credit by taking the course.
1.Academic Activities
Academic activities include academiclectures,forums,contests and so on. All master students are required to attendacademic activities.
Master students are required to attend academicdiscussions and listen to academic reports no less than 30 times; and they arerequired to attend academic conferences or academic salon papers report morethan one time.
2.Teaching Practice
The content of teaching practice includes teaching,tutoring, organizing class discussions, guiding experiment, correcting homeworkand experiment report, guiding graduation dissertation, etc. The total workloadof teaching practice or scientific research practice is more than 40 credit hours.All postgraduates are required to take part in teaching practice or scientificresearch practice.
3.Social Practice
Liberalarts master students should also take part in social practice. The minimumamount of time is two weeks.
（Ⅶ）Calculation Methods of Credits
The credits for postgraduate courses should becalculated according to the difficulty of courses and the average class hoursof courses required by students. In principle, 18 class hours of courses for 1 credit.
Discussions, laboratory courses and other forms ofcourses can be reasonably calculated in accordance with the above principles.
The credits of common optional courses arecalculated separately. Except for the clear provisions, the credits of theabove provisions are generally not substituted.
（Ⅷ） Evaluation
Curriculum evaluation is divided into examinationand inspection.Compulsory courses require examination and optional coursesrequire examination or inspection. The examination uses a percentage gradingsystem. Inspection is scored according to the rating system.
Except for curriculum evaluation, master studentsshould also complete the evaluation of research ethics and academic standardizationtraining, basic literature reading ability training, academic activities, practiceand scientific research training and so on. The results of the above evaluationare not included in the total credit, but are included in the qualification andverification of dissertation oral defense .
The training of research ethics and academic standardizationis mainly self-study, and its evaluation is carried over the network.
The evaluation of practice and academic activities that master tutors makeis based on the relevant reports and materialssubmitted by master students. Also, tutors will give qualified or unqualifiedevaluation according to students’ actual performance.
The basic literature reading ability is evaluated atthe beginning of dissertation proposal, and the basic literature readingability of postgraduates is assessed.
Ⅲ、Mid-term Evaluation,Requirements of Scientific Achievements and Examinationof Dissertation Oral Defense
（Ⅰ）Content of Evaluation
Taking the mid-term examination at the end of the fourthsemester of postgraduate after the enrollment; at the last semester beforegraduation, the qualification of dissertation oral defense is examined for thestudents who want to graduate. The examination includes the following aspects:
1、Curriculum Review: To review whether students have got theminimum requirement for credits
2、Scientific research ability review (including scientific research achievementsreview): Review master students’ curriculum statements, term papers, researchreports, experimental reports,publishedacademic papers during the school period. Master students are encouraged to publishhigh-quality academic papers in school and publicly express their academicopinions in academic forums, academic salons and otheracademic activities for more than one time.
3、Review of the dissertation proposal: Taking theguidance group of postgraduates majoring in communication as the unit and thenhold the meeting of dissertation proposal. The content of the dissertation proposal includes the purposeand significance of chosen titles, the current situation and developmenttendency in the field of communication at home and abroad, the progress ofwork, the existent problems, the time to complete the paper and the expectedresults, etc. After the report, the tutor of the master student will make necessarysupplements and explanations. Then, other tutors and master students present willbe invited to give their opinions, and then revise and finalize the title.Finally, the master students themselves fill in the “ Graduate Dissertation ProposalForm,” which is submitted to the institute for examination after the tutorsmaking comments. The dissertation proposal shall be conducted within theprescribed time for mid-term evaluation. If it fails for the first time, itshall be allowed to be repeated within 1-2 months. If it fails again, it shallbe handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the school enrollmentmanagement.
（Ⅱ）Evaluation Form
Evaluation teams take one specialty as unit. Evaluationteams are composed of master tutors, directors of teaching and researchdepartments, instructors, head teachers or political instructors. Experts fromrelated disciplines of this university can also be invited to attend, assessingmaster students in overall.
（Ⅲ）EliminationMechanism
1、Those who pass the mid-term evaluationand show certain ability of scientific research and practice are qualified ascandidates for master’s degree and can go into dissertation period.
2、Those who fail to complete the mid-termevaluation on time within the prescribed time shall be considered as unqualified in mid-termevaluation.
3、If students fail to pass the mid-term examinationand are obviously lack in the ability of scientific research and practice, and have unhealthy moralities,theirstudy should be terminated. It is suggested that they should drop out ofschool.
Ⅳ、Dissertation
（Ⅰ） the Topic of Dissertation
Before writing a dissertation, master students mustgo through careful investigation and make serious research to understand the history, currentsituation and development trend of the research by reading the literature. Andthen students could determine the title of their dissertation. The topic ofdissertation should be innovative on the basis of previous work and is of academicvalue or theoretical and practical significance. The dissertation should havenew opinions on the subject they study .
（Ⅱ）Dissertation Proposal（Fordetails, refer to the interim evaluation）
（Ⅲ）Dissertation Writing
After finishing the dissertation proposal, masterstudents should make periodic reports to tutors and guiding groups according tothe work plan of the dissertation, and constantly improve the structure, ideasand viewpoints of the dissertation under the guidance of the tutors. Masterstudents must ensure that they devote no less than one year to thesis dissertationwriting in order to guarantee the quality of their dissertations.
（Ⅳ） Dissertation Review and Defense
Master degree dissertation must be reviewed by twoor three associate professors or above and assessed by “double blindness”. Onlywhen “double blind” evaluation and appraisal are qualified can students maketheir dissertation oral defense. The defense is usually scheduled from April toMay, not later than the end of May.
Ⅴ、Basic Literature Bibliography of Readings andExpanded Bibliography of Readings in this Specialty
Specific bibliographies are provided by master tutors in principle.Thefollowing bibliographies are for reference only.
（Ⅰ）Reference bibliography and journal titles
1. 陈力丹. 马克思主义新闻思想概论. 复旦大学出版社，2003.
2. 成美. 新闻理论教程. 中国人民大学出版社，1993.
3. 徐宝璜. 新闻学. 中国人民大学出版社，1994.
4. 刘建明. 当代新闻学原理. 清华大学出版社，2003.
5. 蒋冰冰. 传播语言学. 中国戏剧出版社，2005.
6. 李良荣. 新闻学概论. 复旦大学出版社，2003.
7. 严三九. 媒介管理学概论. 西南师范大学出版社，2007.
8. 黄旦. 新闻传播学. 杭州大学出版社，1997.
9. 彭兰. 网络新闻学原理与运用. 新华出版社，2003.
10. 严三九. 经济新闻写作教程. 北京大学出版社，2007.
11. 童兵. 比较新闻传播学. 中国人民大学出版社，2002.
12. 徐耀魁主编. 西方新闻理论评析. 新华出版社，1998.
13. 郑兴东. 受众心理与传媒引导. 新华出版社，1999.
14. 郭庆光. 传播学教程. 中国人民大学出版社，1999.
15. 密尔顿. 论出版自由. 商务印书馆，1958.
16. 密尔. 论自由. 商务印书馆，1959.
17. 贝尔纳•瓦耶纳. 当代新闻学. 新华出版社，1986.
18. 孙旭培. 新闻学新论. 当代中国出版社，1994.
19. 魏永征. 新闻传播法教程. 中国人民大学出版社，2002.
20. 陈绚. 新闻道德与法规. 中国大百科全书出版社，2005.
21. 罗恩•史密斯. 新闻道德评价. 新华出版社，2001.
22. 戈公振. 中国报学史. 中国新闻出版社，1985.
23. 方汉奇主编. 中国新闻事业通史（1～3卷）. 中国人民大学出版社，1992～1999.
24. 丁淦林 主编. 中国新闻事业史. 高等教育出版社，2003.
25. 赵玉明. 中国现代广播简史. 中国广播电视出版社，2001.
26. 郭镇之. 中国电视史. 中国人民大学出版社，1991.
27. 郑超然等著. 外国新闻传播史. 中国人民大学出版社，2000.
28. 陈力丹. 世界新闻传播史. 上海交大出版社，2002.
29. 李良荣. 当代西方新闻事业. 中国人民大学出版社，2002.
30. 韦尔伯•施拉姆. 人类传播史. 台湾远流出版公司，1994.
31. 埃莫里等. 美国新闻史. 新华出版社，2001.
32. 刘明华，徐泓，张征. 新闻写作教程. 中国人民大学出版社，2002.
33. 蓝鸿文. 新闻采访学. 中国人民大学出版社，2001.
34. 梅尔文•门彻. 新闻报道与写作. 中国人民大学出版社，2004.
35. 艾丰. 新闻采访方法论. 人民日报出版社，1989.
36. 艾丰. 新闻写作方法论. 人民日报出版社，1994.
37. 黄晓钟. 新闻写作思考与训练. 四川大学出版社，2002.
38. 陈作平. 新闻报道新思路. 中国广播电视出版社，2000.
39. 郑兴东，陈仁风，蔡雯. 报纸编辑学教程. 中国人民大学出版社，2001.
40. 蔡雯. 新闻传播的策划与组织. 新华出版社，2001.
41. 饶立华，杨钢元，钟新. 电子媒介新闻教程——广播与电视. 中国人民大学出版社，2000.
42. 刘志筠. 电子新闻媒介栏目编辑学. 中国人民大学出版社，1997.
43. 胡文龙. 中国新闻评论发展研究. 中国人民大学出版社，2002.
44. 范荣康. 新闻评论学. 人民日报出版社，1988.
45. 陈红梅. 网络传播与公众表达. 甘肃人民出版社，2005.
46. 彭兰. 网络新闻学原理与运用. 新华出版社，2003.
47. 新闻与传播研究. 社科院新闻研究所.
48. 国际新闻界. 中国人民大学新闻学院.
49. 新闻大学. 复旦大学新闻学院.
50. 现代传播. 中国传媒大学.
51. 中国广播电视学刊. 中国广播电视学会.
52. 当代传播. 新疆日报.
53. 新闻界. 四川日报集团.
54. 新闻战线. 人民日报.
55. 中国记者. 新华社.
56. 新闻记者. 上海文新集团.
57. 新闻与信息传播研究（内部刊物）. 华中科技大学.
58. 新闻与写作. 北京日报集团.
59. 电视研究. 中央电视台.
60. 新闻知识. 陕西日报.
61. 新闻学研究. 国立政治大学新闻系（台湾）.
（二）主要学术网站Main academic websites
1. 中国新闻传播学评论 http://www.cjr.com.cn/
2. 中华传媒网 http://academic.mediachina.net/index.jsp
3. 新华网•新华传媒 http://www.xinhuanet.com/newmedia/
4. 人民网•人民传媒 http://media.people.com.cn/
5. 千龙网•千龙传媒 http://medianet.21dnn.com/
6. 传播研究网（中国社会科学院） http://www.mediaresearch.com.cn
7. 紫金网 http://purple.nj.gov.cn/
8. 文化研究 http://www.culstudies.com/
9. 哥伦比亚新闻学评论 http://www.cjr.org/
10. 编辑和出版人 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/
11. Poynter新闻研究中心 http://www.poynter.org/
12.新闻博物馆 http://www.newseum.org/
