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Course date
July 6–10, 2009
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

This intensive one-week workshop addresses the professional development needs of cultural journalists, editors, and media managers as important mediators in a system of cultural production, distribution, and reception. Since the majority of media gives less time and space for serious coverage of culture and concentrates instead on glamour, scandal, and gossip, the course stresses the systemic features of culture (its personal and social developmental dimensions, and strong relations to other social fields, such are education, economy, social policy, etc), gives the participants an overview of cultural policy's outreach and in that way enables them to think and write in a critical sense about strategic cultural issues, with a systemic view and a grasp of complex systemic implications.

The objective of the course is to provide training in identifying and scrutinizing cultural policy issues at a practical, applied level of journalistic investigation, reporting, and commentary; but also to motivate media professionals to develop a cultural policy of culture coverage in their specific media and, possibly, establish mutually beneficial partnerships (programs, projects, campaigns etc) with diverse cultural actors. The course program is designed for 20-25 journalists, editors, and media managers, mainly younger ones, from print, electronic, and online media.

Assignments and assessment

Participants are expected to attend all workshop sessions, lectures, and seminars, held daily in the morning and afternoon; to read workshop materials made available in advance and during the course; to participate in the discussions and debates. During the course, they will conduct fieldwork by interviewing the representatives of five Budapest cultural institutions and then write journalistic pieces on them (in English or French), present them, and debate them. Participants will be assessed based on a) their contribution to the course; and b) their written piece. Further revision of pieces will be expected and participants are encouraged to publish each other pieces in their home media. Participants will be issued a CEU certificate of completion of the course.

Preparatory work

Before attending the course, accepted participants are expected to familiarize themselves with the following websites on cultural policy issues and cultural practices:
- www.culturalpolicies.net
- www.labforculture.org
- www.on-the-move.org
- www.cultureactioneurope.org
- www.encatc.org
- www.culture360.org
- www.eipcp.net
- www.interarts.net

Course literature

Accepted applicants will receive a list of recommended literature with their acceptance letter and a digital reader 30 days before the beginning of the course.

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Notification

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