ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Communication Science
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
-Knowledge of the legal rules governing the work of the journalist.
- Study of the legislative framework on freedom of information and opinion, particularly those affecting the profession.
- Encouraging and promoting the student to argue from a legal perspective.
- Study of fundamental rights and duties related information.
- Analysis of the distribution of power and the mechanisms of formation of public opinion, its limits and its relationship to political communication.
- Principles and practices derived from the rights to information.
- Implementation of the right to journalism and media company.
- Reflection on the imprint and relevance of law in the information content through analyzing the traditional media and new media.
- Study of the Spanish laws and legal processes, as well as those of European and international institutions, for developing information and journalistic publications.
- Freedom of expression and information.
- The right to self-image and to privacy.
PART I: BASIC CONCEPTS OF LAW:
1. The Law and the legal system.
2. The structure of the legal system.
3. Sources of Law: European, national and regional (Autonomous Communities 'Comunidades autónomas') sources. Case law.
4. Legal rules: interpretation, application and efficiency.
5. Judicial power.
6. Fundamental rights. Concept and nature. Elements and main features.
7. Exercise of fundamental rights and their limits
8. Defense and national protection of fundamental rights. Constitutional Court and the 'amparo' procedure. Ombudsman
9. Habeas Corpus procedure
10. Rights Suspension. Single suspension. Collective Suspension: the states of alarm, emergency and siege
PARTE II: RIGHT TO INFORMATION:
10. The right to information. Background and features
11. Freedom of expression versus freedom of information
12. The right to information and personal rights
13. Defamation and calumny.
14. Professional responsability.
15. Conscience clause. Professional secrecy. Official secrets. Censorship and seizure.
REFERENCES
•García Rubio, M.ª P., Introducción al Derecho Civil, Cálamo, Barcelona, 2002.
•Rogel Vide , C., y ESPÍN ALBA, I., Persona, Reus, Madrid, 2008
•Rodríguez-Izquierdo Serrano, Miryam; Vázquez Alonso, Víctor Javier. Derecho de la información. información [Recurso electrónico] (2012). Editorial/es: Universidad de Sevilla. Secretariado de Recursos Audiovisuales y Nuevas Tecnologías
•Sanjurjo Rebollo, Beatriz. Manual de derecho de la información: una perspectiva legal para un mundo cada día más mediático. Ed. Dykinson. 2009.
•Urías, Joaquín. Lecciones de derecho de la información. Ed. Tecnos. 2009.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
•Cousido González, María Pilar; Santiago Freda, Manuel de; González Ballesteros, Teodoro. Medios de comunicación, mensajes y derecho a la información. Ed. Colex. 2011.
•Carreras i Serra, Lluís de. Las normas jurídicas de los periodistas. Derecho español de la información. 1ª ed. Ed. UOC. 2008.
Further references will be provided via Campus Virtual.
It is the responsibility of the student to get the necessary bibliography at the beginning of the course, without prejudice to the online access that can be provided to certain materials via BUSC.
BASIS SKILLS:
- Being able to apply knowledge to practice in a professional way.
- Being able to express informed opinions taking into account the knowledge acquired.
- Being able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public
- Multidisciplinary skills
- Skills to perform in practice in a professional and civic way.
FURTHER SKILLS
- Organizational and planning skills.
-Information management.
- Teamwork.
In the lectures the student will be introduced to the basics of the subject.
Moreover, in the interactive lessons the student will contrast the theory and practice of media. Other legal issues, which the journalists face in their daily practice in any media or where they develop their professional activity, will also be discussed.
If required, tutorial sessions will ensure individual attention to the student, preferably via Teams.
Finally, the virtual classroom will be used as a tool to solve practical cases about right to information.
In cases of scenarios 2 and 3, see Comments.
The final grade will be the result of the sum of the partial scores according to the following scheme:
- Attendance and participation in lectures and interactive sessions: 10%
- Tasks undertaken throughout the year: 20%
- Written exam (test): 60%
Taking into account the relevant regulation of the USC for university degree and master´s degree (art. 5.2), attendance and participation in any of the three aforementioned activities will be evaluated. Hence, the student´s final grade will not be NO PRESENTADO.
In case of exemption from attendance, the student´s final grade will be the result of the multiple-choice exam, which will be evaluated on 10 points.
In cases of scenarios 2 and 3, see Comments.
- Exhibition hours: 24
- Interactive hours: 24
- Tutorials: 3
Study time and individual work which must be added:
- 2 hours per week to reinforce knowledge acquired in practical activities
- 15 hours of final exam review
- It is recommended that from the beginning of the semester the students obtain the basic and additional bibliography.
- Attendance to the activities is the most suitable method for the comprehension of the course.
- Study time should be as continued as possible, making a weekly update of the subject.
- Under no circumstances any content should be memorize if it is not previously understood. The solution of practical cases highlight if the subject is or not understood.
Contingency plan (in accordance with the provisions of the text DIRECTRICES PARA O DESENVOLVEMENTO DUNHA DOCENCIA PRESENCIAL SEGURA CURSO 2020-2021).
Methodology
Scenario 2
The course will combine in-class and online teaching via Teams, according to the mechanisms arbitrated by the center.
Access to the materials that will be provided through the Virtual Campus is necessary in order to follow the lectures.
Scenario 3
Lectures will be via Teams synchronously, following the established teaching schedules.
Access to the materials that will be provided through the Virtual Campus is necessary in order to follow the lectures.
Assessment system
Scenario 2
The assessment system will correspond to the following:
- Evaluable activities carried out in the continuous evaluation system, both individually and in groups, delivered through the Virtual Campus: up to 3 points
- Final on site or telematic exam (test): up to 7 points
Scenario 3
The assessment system will correspond to the following:
- Evaluable activities carried out in a continuous evaluation system, both individual and in groups, delivered through the Virtual Campus: up to 3 points
- Final telematic exam (test): up to 7 points
Isabel Espin Alba
- Department
- Common Law
- Area
- Civil Law
- Phone
- 881814650
- isabel.espin [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| 05.22.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 3 |
| 06.27.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 2 |