Enitsa Gabrovska (21) is from Bulgaria and doing the second year of THU’s European Studies programme. She’s also doing two minors: one about
Political Communicationin the 21st Century and the other on
Journalism and Media. The former, she feels, has a direct bearing on her bachelor’s programme, while the latter meshes perfectly with the communications profile she’s tailoring her study to. Besides, she’s a huge fan of journalism.
Her Political Communication minor deals with TV, including its history and public and private broadcasting, she explains. It also discusses TV and politics and the Internet and politics. Enitsa finds them all fascinating subjects, which is just as well because after following the lectures closely she’ll be expected to write a 3,000-word essay on them.
“As for journalism I’ve always loved it,” she says. “I wrote for my school newspaper at high school and I’m now doing the same for the THU magazine,
Link. The journalism minor in particular is very practical because it’s hands on. It’s also taught me to really pay attention when reading or listening to the news, for example. When I watch the news on TV now I am much more critical than I used to be because I ask myself why they say and show the things that they do.”
Enitsa feels that minors are a means of specialising in topics that are too specific for the main programme. “I feel really lucky with these two minors because I’m learning a lot and enjoying them too.
