Overview
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Offerings
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2019-2019
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2023-2023
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2020-2020
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2022-2022
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2019-2019
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2021-2021
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2023-2023
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2021-2021
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2023-2023
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2022-2022
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2021-2021
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2023-2023
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Understand the role and function of the courts and tribunals;
2.
Apply their knowledge of the court system in order to report proceedings
3.
Understand the laws of defamation and other laws sufficient to know when a story is risky to publish or not, and why.
4.
Use the regulations and codes of ethics to assist in ethical judgement
5.
Take an ethical stand on an issue and argue for it
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:Media law and the courts
Contempt, defamation and other laws
Media regulation in Australia
Codes and self-regulation in Australia
Ethical principles for journalists
Privacy and other sensitive areas of reporting