This document discusses the journalism programs at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. It provides an overview of the university, highlighting its reputation and rankings. It then describes the undergraduate bachelor's degree in journalism, including its objectives to train journalists for any medium and encourage reflection on journalism's role in democracy. It also outlines the degree's tracks, internship requirements, and opportunities for study abroad. Finally, it briefly mentions two master's programs in journalism and the university's focus on internationalization and research networks in integrated journalism.

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FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Tbilisi, Georgia 16-17 June 2016.
1. Who is the UPF
2. Our Journalism programmes
3. Our purpose: internationalisation and expanding research networks
1. UPF: Who we are:
UPF is a public, international and research-intensive university that, in just
twenty-five years, has earned a place for itself among the best universities
in Europe. Awarded with a CEI label (International Excellence Campus) by the
Spanish Ministry of Education, the University also figures in some of the
most influential rankings.
Global indicators:
 International Excellence Campus (Spanish Ministry of Education, 2010)
 Highest rate of performance in the Spanish system: 89% (2014-2015
academic year)
 One of the twenty European universities with the most projects
funded by the European Research Council (ERC, 2015)
 Most productive university in Spain (U-ranking, by BBVA Foundation
and Ivie, 2016)
 High satisfaction rate (90%) and job placements (83%) among
graduates (AQU Catalunya, 2014)
A specialized university
UPF structures its studies on three main fields of knowledge, closely
interconnected and structured on three campuses:

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 Social sciences and humanities, Ciutadella campus
 Health and life sciences, Mar campus
 Communication and information technologies, Poblenou campus

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2. OUR PROGRAMMES IN JOURNALISM
2.1. Undergraduate: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism
Most relevant:
- 4 tracks taught at other Faculties
- High international mobility and program in English
- Top course: integrated newsroom
Objectives
This bachelor's degree programme is geared to the professional practice of
journalism, regarded as an activity that chiefly consists of generating topical
information products and is thus clearly different from other activities related
to social communication.
The programme's fundamental objective is to produce journalists capable of
working in any medium. That entails preparing future graduates to adapt to
the changes, in terms of both social uses and technology, liable to take
place in the communication arena. The programme also aims to encourage
students to engage in thorough reflection on journalism as a professional
activity that should be a guarantee of democracy, good citizenship and
social cohesion.
About the programme
Key aspects of the programme include:
 A firm grounding in a specific field. At the beginning of the
programme, each student must opt for training in humanities, politics,
economics or law.

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 Training in journalism's basics and the skills the profession requires,
for all media types and forms of journalistic work (press, the internet,
radio, television, news agencies, etc.).
 Emphasis on professional specialization through optional subjects
related to different fields and forms of journalism.
 Compulsory internship, for at least a term, in a media organization, a
news agency or an institution's communications office.
 Scope for obtaining a second bachelor's degree.
Tracks
At the beginning of the programme, each student must decide which kind of
basic training to take by opting for one of the following tracks:
 Humanities
 Political Sciences
 Economic Sciences
 Law
Each track gives students the option of obtaining a bachelor's degree in the
corresponding field once they have completed the Journalism programme.
Gaining a second bachelor's degree in this way involves studying for a
further two years (or possibly slightly longer, depending on each individual's
academic circumstances).
Internships
Many of the programme's subjects are practical in nature, particularly the
Integrated Journalism Workshop in the third year.
Furthermore, in the fourth year, students are required to undertake an
internship in a media organization of one kind or another (press, radio,
television, the internet, a news agency, a communications office, etc.). To

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that end, the Faculty of Communication has established agreements with
Catalonia's leading companies in the field.
Periods abroad
The programme's students are encouraged to take advantage of mobility
opportunities and, in particular, the possibility of study periods (through
Erasmus and other programmes) at foreign universities, in Europe or beyond,
at which training in journalism or other areas conducive to professional
specialization is available. Ideally, such study periods should take place in the
programme's final year.
Competences to be acquired
 Composing and creating written and audiovisual journalistic products
in different genres (information in the strictest sense, reports, opinion
pieces, etc.).
 Using the basic technologies employed by the different media and/or
printed or electronic content platforms.
 Developing sufficient strength of intellect to be able to cope in a
complex world.
 Abiding by the ethical principles stemming from the view that
information is a basic social good in a democratic society.
Graduate career prospects
 News reporter.
 Professional journalist, in any type of medium, creating topical content
and using the different genres characteristic of the news media. This
includes working as a writer, reporter, presenter or director for a given
medium (or different media), encompassing designing, writing and

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producing written, audiovisual or multimedia reports and
documentaries in a communication sector company.
 Work in institutional communication.
 Press or communications officer in a public or private institution,
coordinating or carrying out any communication or information-
related work the institution requires.
 Community manager.
 Content manager.
 Specialist in analysing current or future communication phenomena
and processes for all kinds of public and private organizations, with
the skills to provide services involving mediation, consultancy,
measurements and expertise.
 Freelance journalist in the profession's different areas of specialization
and subject matter.
2.2. Graduate: Master programmes including Journalism training
- MA in International Studies on Media, Power and Difference
https://www.upf.edu/mediapoweranddifference/en/
Launched on September 2015
Taught in English
- MA in Research on the History of Communication (online program)
https://portal.upf.edu/web/masterhistoriacomunicacion/1
To be launched on September 2016
Taught in Spanish
3. Internationalization

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- Mobility, teaching in English
Currently offering 36 ECTS in English in the Journalism degree
Currently offering 88 ECTS in English in the three degrees
Incoming students can choose amongst Journalism, other communication
degrees and other courses in English in the other campuses.
(attached program)
- Research networks
THE INTEGRATED NEWSROOM: IJIE project: Integrated journalism in Europe
http://integratedjournalism.upf.edu/the-project/
Integrated Journalism in Europe (IJIE) is a Lifelong Learning Programme Project
linked to the changes in the European higher education curriculum and global
media changes. Once detected, this project looks to implement these
communication changes in the classroom, to extend this experience to the
European citizens trough the future journalists. In a changing landscape, both
media and universities have to adapt to the new reality of media convergence and
transmedia. Therefore, this project promotes four basic factors to consider in
journalism education today: the convergence of media, the relationship between
universities / business, professional simulation and the internationalization of the
teaching.