La enseñanza de la ética en los grados en Periodismo: la asignatura autónoma y el método por saturación en los planes de estudio españoles

Abstract

This article analyzes the state of ethics instruction in bachelor's degrees in Journalism at spanish universities. This training is torn between its focus in a stand-alone course or its dispersion in the different subjects that make up the curriculum (“saturation method”). It is useful to know if the general tendency to reduce the humanistic content of journalism studies has affected the teaching of media ethics. For this purpose, the offer of stand-alone courses on journalistic ethics in 38 universities were analyzed through a content analysis. In a complementary way, the existence of other courses on moral philosophy was registered and the presence of contents related to ethics in the set of courses was identified through the analysis of 1749 syllabus. The results allow us to conclude that the inclusion of a specific subject on professional ethics continues to be the hegemonic method, although its content (especially in the deontological aspect rather than that relating to moral philosophy) appears transversally represented in the curricula as a whole