A\DVANCED EDITING

COURSE LEVEL: YEAR 3, SEMESTER 2        CREDIT UNIT:  CU 3

 

TYPE OF COURSE: ELECTIVE

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

During this practical course students learn how to layout newspaper pages electronically. It requires that pages conform to the principles of design already covered in the Fundamentals of Editing course, which is a pre-requisite for this paper. Adobe InDesign was selected for this course because of its wide usage in the Ugandan newspaper market. Students will work in groups to produce a newspaper as the final product for this class. BAMC 3105 Fundamentals of Newspaper Editing and Page Design is a pre-requisite.

 

OBJECTIVES

This course is aimed at forming an editor out of the student, especially for the print media. At the end of this course, students should be able to:

  1. Consolidate knowledge and skills acquired in BAMC 3105 Fundamentals of Newspaper Editing and Page Design.
  2. Work as a sub-editor in a print newsroom; and ably use Adobe InDesign software.
  3.  Complete basic graphic design assignments.