MODEL CURRICULA FOR MONGOLIAN JOURNALISM EDUCATION: ITS VISION AND REFORMS IN THE NEW, DEMOCRATIC PERIOD

Abstract

Mongolia has a population of only 3 million, who attain information and entertain-ment from 555 media organisations in the media market. The journalists who work for those media organisations have been trained by 19 universities and institutions. Journalism education has a 64 year history in the country’s 100 year history of journalism. State and private journalism training institutions delivering academic journalism education have largely followed the traditional forms of the Soviet Union. Despite attempts at implementing American and Western style curriculum design for journalism education in Mongolia, many have claimed that this has not been implemented adequately so far. There is a demand for redesigning the journalism curricula to incorporate technolo-gical developments and changes in the society in addition to public attitudes towards the media. The article is aiming at analyse the curricula of the journalism training institutions of Mongolia in order to clarify whether they meet the needs of students, employers and labour market.