Professional Documents
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Our students love the camaraderie and personal It’s easy to recognize
growth which come from residence life. Wherever a King’s student
you go on campus, you’ll always run into friends.
You’ll know the faculty and staff, and they’ll know King’s is a place where we value and nourish
you. It’s an ideal climate for discovering who you ideas. Discussions flow effortlessly from the
are and who you want to become. tutorial room to the stairwell, across the campus
to the dining hall and back out into the quad.
There’s no better environment for developing
Halifax: The place to be an analytical eye and an inquiring mind, or
If you’re looking for a friendly and vibrant city for growing as an individual while you explore
with lots of young people, come to Halifax. possibilities. Professors from other institutions
Eight institutions of higher learning in one place say it’s easy to recognize King’s students by the
means an abundance of intellectual energy and way they apply logic, the way they ask questions,
plenty of fun to be had. Perhaps you’ll spend and their writing ability.
a Saturday morning downtown at the Halifax Great books. Inquisitive minds. Individualism.
Farmers’ Market before meeting up with friends Expansive spirit. Abundant energy. You’ll
at one of the city’s many coffee shops. Saturday find King’s students are as uncommon and
night you might take in a play or film screening, individual as the university they love.
go dancing or watch your favourite sports team,
choices which
are all within
walking distance
of King’s. Just
don’t be
surprised if you
spend more time
on campus
than not. The
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Rather than taking a number of distinct courses
and juggling a number of different assignment The questions are still open for us as
lists, you will discover how fundamental ideas we strive to understand these great
in the humanities, social sciences and natural
sciences are intertwined. The curriculum is
highly coordinated and the assignments are
texts. We need the students’ help.
Dr. Angus Johnston, founding faculty member,
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Foundation Year Programme
well-paced, which means you can put your focus
where it belongs: on the great works which are at
the heart of the programme.
Question and grow
Taught as a single intensive and interdisciplinary
course, FYP provides both a solid foundation FYP faculty are dedicated to interdisciplinary
for future studies and a unique opportunity teaching and engage together in this learning
for reflection before later specialization. Only endeavour with their students. After each day’s
available to those enrolled at King’s, FYP attracts lecture, the class breaks into tutorial groups
students interested in pursuing degrees in arts, of about 15 students led by a faculty member.
journalism and music, and it is a popular choice In these thought-provoking sessions, your
for science students seeking a grounding in tutor will help you approach the texts critically,
the humanities. It satisfies the introductory understand the lectures and develop your
requirements for many departments at Dalhousie writing skills. In FYP, you’ll be writing a lot.
and programmes at King’s, allowing for a Essays are due every two weeks, and are generally
smooth transition into second year. analytical papers requiring careful reflection on
one or two texts. The tutorials will also help you
become more confident in communicating your
thoughts. You will draw on this experience as
you prepare for oral exams—one held prior to
December break and one at the end of the year.
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education, creative writing, journalism,
with a greater sense of perspective. business, film, publishing, international
Paul McLeod, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, development, law and the civil service.
Combined Honours in Journalism
and Contemporary Studies ’07
Early Modern Studies
Programme
Contemporary Studies What was life like in the age of da Vinci? What
Programme is the basis of our modern understanding of
concepts such as nature, romance, freedom
How is the world we live in today distinct from
and originality? What ideas and concepts
all that has gone before? To what extent do
underlay such seminal moments in history as
biology and culture determine what it is to be
the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the
human? What is progress? What does it mean to
Enlightenment, and the French Revolution?
be post modern? What does it mean to live with
the memory of the Holocaust? These are some questions addressed in the
Early Modern Studies Programme (EMSP),
You’ll grapple with these questions and more
which explores the nature of modernity through
in the interdisciplinary Contemporary Studies
a study of its origins and development in
Programme (CSP). CSP is designed to help
European culture from the 16th to early 19th
make sense of today’s world by considering the
centuries, a time of spectacular upheaval.
LIBRARY
In addition to its estimated 80,000 circulating
volumes and fine collection of rare books, the King’s
library, also a museum, houses art, artifacts and the
oldest collection of ceramics in Canada. The special
ambience in this award winning building creates an
elegant, peace-filled space conducive to study.
Closely connected
Putting it in context As a King’s journalism student you will benefit
from the close relationships that result from
It’s one thing to tell a story. It’s another to be being a part of a school which has purposely
able to provide context for the story you tell. limited its enrolment. Faculty are dedicated to
As a King’s journalism student that’s just what their students and are easily accessible. They
you’ll strive to do for your readers, listeners, also remain involved in the industry. Both
viewers or online audience. faculty and students are a part of a program that
dates back to 1979, when King’s introduced
Where does this context come from? Consider the only Bachelor of Journalism degree in the
the intensive Foundation Year Programme as Atlantic Provinces.
your base and the upper-level courses as an
expansion and extension of that base. The
reading you do, the discussions you engage in, Honours options
and the critical thinking skills you hone will all
The four-year Bachelor of Journalism program
be valuable assets as you delve into complicated
is available with single honours in journalism,
issues and pose thoughtful, meaningful
or with combined honours in journalism and
questions. The King’s journalism program
a second subject in the Faculties of Arts and
is built on our philosophy that a professional
Social Sciences or Science. Examples of possible
journalist has a superior academic education
second subjects include political science,
along with excellent practical skills.
international development studies, biology
King’s journalism students can develop these and theatre. Another option is pairing your
skills in a variety of ways. For example, there is journalism studies with one of King’s three
a daily online news digest, which has subscribers interdisciplinary programmes: contemporary
around the world. There are nightly radio studies, early modern studies, and history of
newscasts, a weekly current affairs television science and technology. Again, the combined
show and a newspaper that is circulated honours programme provides you with an
widely in Halifax. opportunity to gain specialized knowledge in a
particular area and provide greater context for
In your fourth year, you will acquire more your reporting.
hands-on experience when you complete a
Stepping out
Perhaps you’ll become a reporter, researcher
or editor in online or print media, radio or
television. Maybe you’ll transfer your skills
to a career in public relations, advertising,
government, the diplomatic corps or public
affairs organizations, to name some of the
possibilities. A journalism degree from King’s,
with its balance of strong academics and
practical skills, opens up many avenues for
you to explore. Bachelor of Journalism,
Honours
(Single Honours) Overview
Year One
Foundation Year Programme
Foundations of Journalism
Minor in Journalism Year Two
Core: Reporting Techniques
• Foundations of Journalism Arts/Science electives
• Reporting Techniques
Year Three
Electives: News Media and the Courts in Canada
• Introduction to Radio Broadcasting Ethics of Journalism
• Introduction to TV Broadcasting Journalism Research
• Copy Editing Two Journalism electives (e.g., Photojournalism,
Online, Feature Writing, Narrative Nonfiction,
• Ethics of Journalism
Business Reporting, Copy Editing, Great Journalists,
• Feature Writing Women and the Documentary Tradition)
• News Media in the Courts in Canada Arts/Science electives
• Introduction to Online Journalism
Year Four
• Introduction to Narrative Non-Fiction
Journalism Internship (four weeks)
• Advanced Narrative Nonfiction
Honours Project
• Photojournalism
Three workshops from a list including Newspaper,
• Great Journalists
Narrative Nonfiction, Radio, Online or Television,
• Business Reporting for Journalists plus other workshops that vary annually according
• Women and the Documentary Tradition to student interests.
another through all of the ups, Indeed, a great deal of learning takes place
down and discoveries of first year.
”
Jessie Lamont, Goodwood, Ontario, History and Gender
through chance conversations and spontaneous
get-togethers. As you live, study and have fun
together, ties of friendship form—ties which
and Women’s Studies often continue long after your years at King’s.
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