NEW COURSESITE

We have a new coursesite at http://www.winchesterjournalism.co.uk. Further updates will be added to the that page.

Winchester comes top for postgrad student satisfaction

More evidence that Winchester - the UK's newest and best small university - is making a mark. A government survey by the Higher Education Academy has ranked the university as one of the best centre for postgraduate (that's MA level) teaching in the country. 92 percent of postgraduate students said that their course had met or exceeded their expectations compared to an average for universities as a whole of of 85 percent. Earlier this year the university won a times Higher Educational Supplement award for excellence. We've had our own award from the BJTC so things are on the up...

general election

Highlights of General Election night are now available on the WINOL site - http://www.winol.co.uk. I am re-doing the the whole WINOL site design and CMS system a t the moment so it will be easier to add text articles and video stories (other than those for the main bulletin) so it will all be better and more up to date.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0GFAd4iTF4&feature=related

HCJ second year - absolutely fantastic thing here for linguistic philosophy which dominates the culminating second half of the second year. Well worth a listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0GFAd4iTF4&feature=related

Treasures of You Tube.

Zeigeist - Ridley Scott

Brian and I are editing the year three 'day in the life of Winchester'. It appears that Ridley Scott - director of the popular and somewhat corny '80s Nietzchean sci-fi film Blade Runner - has stolen the idea for a Day in the life of the Word project.

charlotte Purkis, a lecturer in dance and performance writes:

was wondering whether there is any student you could recommend who might be around to help me make a very brief (scripted) recording, hopefully using your studio?

I am giving a conference paper soon and I wanted to make a 5 minute recording of myself talking cutting in a few bits of music and a bit of a film soundtrack and to use this as the start of my paper. [Its on ficto-criticism - interesting].

I could pay a student to help do this.

Tuesday next week would work well for me, if it was possible to use the studio at about noon (I"ve got a meeting at 11am which I will not be able to stand more than one hour of...).

I guess it would take up to one hour, hopefully less to do the task.

If you are interested in helping please urgently contact Charlotte.Purkis@winchester.ac.uk

Last bit of Conference Material

The last bit of video from the Innovation Journalism conference. It is Keith Devlin of Stanford talking about induction, inference, probability and so on - the philosophical material we deal with in HCJ (in year one, to do mainly with Hume and also Aristotle and the enlightenment; and in year two with the Vienna Circle leading through Logical Positivism to Karl Popper). There is also important material here about the reliability of DNA evidence which is of use for The Innocence project.

KEITH DEVLIN: PART ONE

KEITH DEVLIN: PART TWO

Interesting, useful stuff I would suggest.