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Bachelor of Journalism

Journalism and Media Studies Centre

G24 Eliot Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Tel : (852) 2859 1156
Fax : (852) 2858 8736
E-mail : jmscbj@hku.hk
Website : http://jmsc.hku.hk
Program Structure Why Seek a Bachelor of
The undergraduate curriculum for the Bachelor of Journalism degree is a challenging, hands-on course taught over a three-
year period. Students will earn 180 credits, including 66 credits in journalism courses to be taken in the second and third years
of study.
Journalism Degree at HKU?
Year I n World-class university in a world-class city
Elective Courses ~

Year I students are required to take the following courses:

3 credits n Integrated training in print, broadcast and online media

Core Courses in Journalism

n A faculty of distinguished international journalists and educators
• Principles of journalism and the news media n International, regional and local opportunities for internships and jobs
• News reporting and writing workshop
• Statistics for journalists Journalism Summer
n Exchange programs with universities in U.S., Europe and elsewhere
Internship ~ 12 credits
• Economics for journalists
Junior-level Courses
n English-language instruction, multicultural environment
• Online journalism
in Journalism ~
• Journalism summer internship (or in Year II) 30 credits Language Courses ~ n Small skills-oriented classes, personal career guidance
9 credits
Common Core Courses n Exclusive seminars with experts and newsmakers
• Students are required to earn 12 credits from the Common Core curriculum
Common Core n Heart of Asia, doorstep of China
Language Studies Courses Courses ~
12 credits
• Academic English for Social Sciences
• Professional writing for the media
• Practical Chinese language course for Social Sciences students/Practical Chinese
Language and Hong Kong society/Cantonese for mainland students

Elective Courses

Years II and III

In Years II and III, students are required to take the following courses:

Core Courses
About the JMSC
• Media law and ethics Students at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) can
• Television news production Core Courses in reap the benefits of a world-class university and a world-class
• Journalism summer Internship (or in Year I) Journalism ~
12 credits faculty of professional journalists and educators while living and
Students are also required to select eight courses studying in one of the world’s most dynamic cities – Hong Kong.
(equivalent to 42 credits) from the following options: The JMSC emphasizes skills-oriented English-language journalism
Senior-level Courses in education while creating opportunities for students from Hong
Journalism ~ 42 credits
• Feature writing • Public affairs reporting One major / two Kong, mainland China and elsewhere in the world to interact and
• Chinese news writing • Business and financial reporting
minor subjects ~
48-54 credits
learn from one another.
• Journalism traditions • Covering the environment The JMSC is a highly regarded part of The University of Hong
• Independent study • Internet, technology and society Global Kong. We began as a graduate-level program and later added our
citizenship ~
• The press, politics and government • Documentary film appreciation 12 credits Bachelor of Journalism program, all while offering courses and
• Literary journalism • News photography seminars to the entire university community. At the undergraduate
• Covering China • Supervised research level, we offer 32 courses on many topics, including news reporting
• Visual journalism • Media research: an introduction and writing for all forms of traditional and new media; media law
• International news • Doing media research: and ethics, and journalism history and traditions from regional and
• Reporting public health issues quantitative and qualitative
approaches
global perspectives. Special courses are also available, including
• Special topics in journalism I Independent Study and Chinese News Writing.
• Introduction to photography
• Special topics in journalism II
• Advanced online journalism Journalists should be broadly educated, and so we require
• Television news writing
• Radio news
• Reporting Hong Kong Bachelor of Journalism students to acquire a second “major” or
• Television and society two “minors.” We also require students to participate in internship
programs. These requirements, along with exchange programs
with leading universities in the U.S. and Europe as well as other
Note: Students are also required to fulfill a 12-credit Global Citizenship requirenment by the
special programs and seminars we have throughout the year,
second semester of the final year of studies.
help us equip our students with the skills and knowledge they
Note: BJ students also are required to acquire enough credits for a second major or two need once they leave the JMSC and become the next generation
minors in subjects that suit their interests and career goals. of leaders.
Note: Subject to confirmation in 2010 spring
Internships
The JMSC requires students to earn academic credits by working in a media internship. Over the years, this has led to an
internship network with dozens of local, regional and international media partners that has enabled students to gain valuable
on-the-job experience. In some cases, the internships have led to full-time jobs.
Our internship partners
include: (partial listing)
Overseas media: New York Daily News (New York City), The
Nation (Bangkok), National Geographic Traveler, New American
Media (San Francisco), WGBH TV (Boston), KCTS TV (Seattle),
WNYC Public Radio (New York), WRTI-FM (Philadelphia),
Associated Press (Bangkok), Pakistan Press Foundation (Karachi),
Malaysiakini.com (Kuala Lumpur).
Local English and international media: News Corporation,
CNN, CCTV (Hong Kong Station), CNBC Asia, Voice of America,
Associated Press, Bloomberg News & Television, Far Eastern
Economic Review, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune,
Local Chinese media: TVB, ATV, Cable TV, Now.com, Phoenix
TV, RTHK, Commercial Radio, Hong Kong Economic Times, Ming
Pao, MingPao.com, Sing Tao Daily, Apple Daily, Wen Wei Po,
Headline Daily, AM730, Metropolis Daily, Yazhou Zhoukan, Cup,
City Magazine, Next Magazine, East Week.
PRC media: CCTV (Beijing), Shanghai Television Station
(Shanghai), Shanghai Media Group (Shanghai), China Radio
International (Beijing), China Daily (Beijing), Shanghai Daily,
Southern Weekend (Guangzhou), 21st Century World Herald
(Guangzhou).
International
Student
Exchange
The JMSC provides opportunities to learn beyond
the classroom by emphasizing social and intellectual
interactions and encouraging students to “think global.” In
our exchange program, students can apply for semester or
year-long exchange programs at top journalism schools,
including the University of Missouri and the University of
Maryland in the United States as well as the Danish School
of Journalism in Denmark and Sciences Po in Paris, France.
Through a separately run HKU program, students also can
apply for exchange opportunities at more than 100 other
universities around the world.
Career
Admissions
The JMSC seeks proactive and intellectually curious students with
a passion for learning. If you are keen to question, to explore and
to be challenged, the JMSC welcomes your application.
JUPAS
JUPAS Admissions: http://www.hku.hk/admission/jupas.htm
JUPAS Self Recommendation Scheme:
http://www.hku.hk/admission/jupas-srs.htm
Other admission schemes
NON-JUPAS Admission Scheme:
http://www.hku.hk/admission/nonjupas.htm
Early Admission Scheme:
http://www.hku.hk/admission/eas.htm
Mainland China students:
http://www.hku.hk/chinaaff/under_graduate_degree/en/

Opportunities
South China Morning Post, The Standard, Weekend Standard, index.htm
Reuters, The Wall Street Journal Asia.

Scholarships Graduates of our program go on to do many things. One

Scholarships are available for:
• International exchanges
Students placed in international exchanges can apply
for financial assistance from the JMSC Student Exchange
Scholarship. Awards are based on financial need, academic
achievement and extra-curricular participation.
• Local and international internships
Students placed in unpaid or minimally paid local and
international internships can apply for financial assistance
from the JMSC Media Internship Fund. Awards are based on
financial need, academic achievement and extra-curricular
participation.
University entrance
of our earliest is a reporter for a prominent international requirements (2010-2011)
financial wire service. One of our most recent is a staff
writer for a prestigious arts and cultural magazine. We http://www.hku.hk/acad/ugp/reference_appendices.html
have graduates working in print, television, radio and
online media. Some are seeking post-graduate degrees For admission information, please contact:
and many are pursuing careers in other fields -- in banking,
business and government service. A JMSC journalism Academic Services Enquiry Office
The University of Hong Kong
education prepares students for many career opportunities
Tel: (852) 2859 2432
by emphasizing analytical and communication skills that
Email: afss@reg.hku.hk
employers in all fields value.
FACULTY
Yuen-ying Chan
Director and Professor
Ying Chan established The University of Hong Kong’s
Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) in
1998. She launched Hong Kong’s first fellowships for
working journalists and forged extensive ties between
the university and the news industry. Chan’s honors
include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University,
a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and
an International Press Freedom Award from the
Committee to Protect Journalists. Chan has taught at
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in
New York and was on the board of the Asian American
Journalists Association.
Thomas Abraham
Director of Public Health Media Project & Assistant
Professor
Thomas Abraham is a former editor of the South China
Morning Post, Hong Kong’s largest English-language
newspaper. Prior to joining the SCMP, he spent 13
years as a foreign correspondent based in Sri Lanka,
the United Nations Office in Geneva, and in London
for one of India’s leading newspapers, The Hindu.
He has reported on conflicts in Sri Lanka, the former
Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland, as well as in major
global issues such as world trade negotiations, human
rights, arms control and disarmament.
Jim Laurie
Director of Broadcasting Program & Senior
Teaching Consultant
A journalist and broadcaster for more than 35
years, Jim Laurie joined the JMSC in 2005 to build
a broadcasting program. He began his career
freelancing for the Far Eastern Economic Review and The
Washington Post before moving to radio and television
in the 1970s. His first assignments in Asia landed him
in Vietnam and Cambodia to cover the Indochina
War. He became a television correspondent for NBC
News and ABC News, reporting from Beijing, Moscow,
London, Tokyo, Manila, Beirut, Bosnia, Baghdad,
Somalia and dozens of other datelines.
Gene Mustain
Director of Reporting and Writing Program &
Senior Teaching Consultant
Gene Mustain has written three nonfiction books and
worked for the New York Daily News and the Chicago
Sun-Times, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for
investigative reporting. He has worked in film and
television, as co-producer for a Home Box Office movie
based on one of his books, “Gotti: Rise and Fall,” the
story of Mafia boss John Gotti, and as a consultant for
documentaries based on his newspaper work. He is
co-editor of English-Language News Writing, the first
English-language journalism text for Chinese students
in Hong Kong and China.
Qian Gang
Co-director of China Media Project
Qian Gang is former managing editor of Southern Weekend
(南方周末), a groundbreaking mainland newspaper
based in Guangzhou. He also is one of the founders of
China Central Television’s News Probe (新聞調查), a
weekly investigative news magazine. His award-winning
book, The Great China Earthquake (唐山大地震), an
account of the massive earthquake that struck Tangshan
in northern China in 1976, considered the 20th century’s
deadliest earthquake, is required reading for Hong Kong
secondary school students.
Miklos Sukosd
Associate Professor
Miklos Sukosd was academic director for the Center
for Media and Communication Studies at Central
European University, where he also was associate
professor. He also has taught at ELTE University in
Hungary and at Princeton and Harvard universities
in the U.S. He is the author or editor of numerous
academic texts. His research interests include political
communication and democratic performance of the
media in post-communist states; media law, regulation
and democratization in post-communist states; and
environmental politics and communication.
Rusty Todd
Director of Business Journalism Program &
Professor
Rusty Todd comes to The University of Hong Kong
from the University of Texas Journalism School, where
he was a professor specializing in editing and business
journalism. His research interests include the impact
of communication variables on financial market
behavior, emerging communication technologies and
international economic news coverage. Todd lived
in Hong Kong for nine years in the 1980s and ‘90s,
when he was a reporter and news editor at The Asian
Wall Street Journal and an executive with Dow Jones/
Telerate.
Doreen Weisenhaus
Director of Media Law Project & Associate
Professor
Doreen Weisenhaus is director of the Media Law
Project, which provides research, courses, conferences
and seminars on media law issues in Greater China
and Asia. Prior to joining the JMSC in 2000, she was
city editor of The New York Times. She also was the first
legal editor of The New York Times Magazine before
becoming its law and politics editor. Weisenhaus
also was editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal,
a leading publication for U.S. lawyers; a prosecutor in
New York; a Chicago television news producer, and a
reporter for the Milwaukee Journal.
Diane Stormont
Senior Teaching Consultant
Diane Stormont has worked as a journalist in Asia since
1981. She spent 10 years at the Reuters international news
agency, the last two as chief of the Hong Kong bureau.
In addition to short-term assignments throughout the
region, she was posted to South Korea for three years.
She has reported for a wide range of publications since
becoming a freelancer in 1997. These include the Daily
Telegraph, The Economist, the Daily Deal and Lloyd’s List
Maritime Asia. She is a former president of the Hong Kong
Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
Masato Kajimoto
Teaching Consultant
Masato Kajimoto worked as an online reporter and
“Specials” editor (web producer) for CNN before
beginning a career in teaching and research. Born in
Nagoya, Japan, he earned his bachelor’s degree in
English and American literature at Chuo University
in Tokyo. He holds a master’s in journalism from the
University of Missouri in the U.S. As a professional
journalist, Masato has written news articles,
features and columns in English and in Japanese.
As a journalism educator, he has supervised many
multimedia projects integrating broadcast and
Internet technologies.
John Young
Teaching Consultant
John Young served as deputy director of California’s
Office of Trade and Investment for China and Hong
Kong before coming to HKU. Prior to that, he served as
special assistant and counsel to San Francisco Mayor
Willie L. Brown Jr. He has a Juris Doctor degree from
Stanford Law School, and a BA in Political Science and
East Asian Studies from the University of California
at Berkeley. He also is an experienced freelance
journalist and former associate director of the JMSC
who developed and teaches one of the most popular
Broadening courses at HKU.
Nancy Tong
Visiting Associate Professor
Nancy Tong began her career as a news reporter
in Hong Kong for Television Broadcasts (TVB). She
moved to New York City in 1981 and worked as an
independent film producer. Among her dozens of
projects were “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”, which
was nominated in 1989 for an Academy Award; “In
the Name of the Emperor”, which was awarded the
Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco International
Film Festival in 1995; and “Cancer: From Evolution
to Revolution”, which won a George Foster Peabody
Award in 2000.
LECTURERS (Adjunct)
Cliff Buddle
Deputy managing editor of the South China Morning Post who has
a Master of Laws in Human Rights from HKU and has served as a
veteran editor and legal journalist in Hong Kong and London.
Cheung Kwai Yeung
Journalist, author and academic who has written extensively
about Hong Kong media and who is currently chief of training and
development for Radio Television Hong Kong, the city’s public
service broadcaster.
Vaudine England
Hong Kong-based correspondent for the United Kingdom’s
Guardian newspaper, the BBC and others, and author of The Quest
of Noel Croucher, Hong Kong’s Quiet Philanthropist.
Fu King-Wa
Ph.D. from JMSC, research officer for JMSC and Hong Kong Jockey
Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at HKU and
columnist for Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong’s largest-selling
Chinese-language newspapers.
Barry Kalb
Formerly a reporter for The Washington Evening Star,
correspondent for CBS News in Asia and correspondent for Time
magazine in West Berlin, Rome, New York and Hong Kong.
Chan Pui King
Veteran investigative journalist and former editor-in-chief of Next
Magazine who wrote guide on access to public information in Hong
Kong while serving as the JMSC’s first research fellow in 1999.
Matthew Leung
JMSC’s creative director, responsible for designing and publishing
educational and promotional materials, with more than 15 years
experience in editorial production, including design, graphics and
desktop publishing.
Velentina Ma
Project manager for JMSC’s Project for Public Culture who also has
worked for such leading Chinese-language publications as Ming
Pao, Next Magazine and Hong Kong Economic Times, and authored
two books.
Rob McBride
Veteran video journalist and correspondent whose work has
appeared on Granada TV, ITN, BBC, Sky News, CNBC, National
Geographic Television, Star TV and PBS.
Kees Metselaar
Freelance photojournalist who has exhibited widely in Europe
and Hong Kong and who was in Bangladesh when a giant cyclone
killed more than 100,000 people in 1991; his pictures were
published worldwide.
Ben Richardson
Hong Kong-based journalist with Bloomberg News who edits
government and policy stories in Asia; previously, he was
Bloomberg’s training editor for the region, and also ran the
company’s finance and stocks market coverage.
Jeffrey Timmermans
Financial and business journalist who has worked as a reporter
in Tokyo for The Wall Street Journal and as a managing editor for
Dow Jones Newswires in Hong Kong and Singapore.