DEVELOPING STUDENTS MEDIA COMPETENCIES IN THE FIELD OF REGIONAL MASS MEDIA (BASED ON THE COURSE OF RUSSIAN REGIONAL MASS MEDIA)
The article examines the issue of developing media competencies of university students majoring in journalism (discipline 021400) in the sphere of media communications in the 83 regions of the Russian Federation. The author discusses the issues of teaching this subject, as well as the pragmatics and contents of the course. Special attention is paid to developing students knowledge of the federal system of Russia, the role of various regions in the countrys political, economic and social life. The article analyzes the method of developing students media competencies in the field of Russian regional mass media of all modern subsystems.