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| | Health and Media goes to University | |  28 August, 2004
The Health and Media courses originally developed by the CBA and the Gates Malaria Partnership have taken on a new twist recently as the original one week course for professional journalists and producers was adapted for students at the University of Cape Town.
The curriculum, developed by Angela Dawson from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and adapted for the third year Film and Television students by Health and Media Director, Colin Lloyd, was put into practice this summer (winter in South Africa) as eighteen students elected to take this course as part of their undergraduate Humanities degree.
“When we created this course there were hopes that there would be a way to, somehow, create and impact and a sustainability aspect to the programme. We had originally done this by developing an email list-serve and a website intended for use by all the journalists who had been on and will be on the original course for professional journalists. I was quite excited when asked to develop this course for use by University students. Perhaps this can now be adapted for other universities as well as there has been preliminary talks about taking a version of the course to a university in Gambia”, explained Colin who is also presenting the course along with UCT academic Ian Glenn, who also assisted in the adaptation of the course.
The student’s course also includes field trips to relevant hospitals and research centres.
As in the original Health and Media course, students will be expected to present a “pitch” for a radio, TV, or series of articles for publication or broadcast.
The courses started out in Tanzania last year then moved on to Swaziland, Namibia, Lesotho, and Malawi earlier this year. Additional courses are planned to Botswana and Gambia later this year and Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana, and Mozambique early next year. |
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