ENG 3313 - Long Form Global Journalism

Credits: 4
Fact-based narratives, also known as long form or literary journalism in English language scholarship, reportage in the former Soviet area, or crónica in Latin America, combines journalistic and literary characteristics and practice. Reading like fiction, the genre seeks, however, to be informative, to give an account of reality based on epistemologically objective data, mixing the intransigence of facts with the passion of narrative. Additionally, scholarship on this form highlights its critical role not only in open society, but in opening societies. In this course we’ll travel around the globe and learn more about the recent and contemporary histories (political, social, cultural, and personal) of countries and cultures like Albania, Chechnya, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El
Salvador, Honduras, Russia, Serbia, the Soviet Union, South-Africa, and Turkey. All our sources (print and digital) will be fact-based, non-fictional and rooted in extensive and in-depth research by their authors (that, again, represent many countries, cultures, and, thus, perspectives).
This course is offered at the Budapest campus.
Prerequisites ENG-1103
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern