The journalism major prepares students to work as professionals in the field and will learn the essential elements of reporting, writing and producing news and features for a variety of media, including print, broadcast and online. Students will complete two semesters in student-run news organization, including the university’s award-winning Journal and may elect to complete an internship with a professional news organization.
Successful graduates of this program will be able to:
- identify and evaluate potential news stories that will impact, inform and engage a defined audience.
- construct the most compelling and impacting ways to tell a story based upon an analysis of purpose, audience and available media. This includes taking advantage of multimedia to tell stories in a global context in more complete and meaningful ways.
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gather and evaluate the validity and reliability of information as well as to evaluate the veracity of the sources from which information comes ...
- Through the process of interviewing
- Through research and public records search
- Through database-driven, computer-assisted reporting
- evaluate and comprehend the ethical and legal implications of one’s journalistic publication decisions.
- apply entrepreneurial and relationship-building skills in order to compete effectively for professional employment opportunities
Students majoring in journalism prepare a professional portfolio as part of the required course, JOUR 4700 Professional Development in Journalism, as well as during their news production courses.
A minimum of 128 credit hours consisting of the following:
- 54 required credit hours
- Applicable university global citizenship or general education program hours
- Electives
| MEDC 1010 Introduction to Mass Communications | 3 hours |
| MEDC 2200 Media Ethics | 3 hours |
| MEDC 2800 Cultural Diversity in the Media | 3 hours |
| MEDC 4100 Law and the Media | 3 hours |
| JOUR 1030 Fundamentals of Reporting | 3 hours |
| -with concurrent enrollment in- | |
| EPMD 1010 Introduction to Media Production for Journalism | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2140 Advanced Reporting | 3 hours |
| -with concurrent enrollment in- | |
| JOUR 2110 Production Techniques | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2170 Journalism Editing | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3300 Newspaper Production | 3 hours |
| JOUR 4700 Professional Development in Journalism | 3 hours |
One of the following: (3 hours):
| JOUR 3600 Advanced Digital Journalism | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3580 Radio News Reporting and Producing | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3590 Television News Reporting and Producing | 3 hours |
One of the following (3 hours):
| JOUR 4620 Senior Overview | 3 hours |
| MEDC 4950 Professional Media Practicum | 3 hours |
In addition to the above required courses, students must choose 15 credit hours from the following:
| JOUR 1930 Broadcast Delivery and Interpretation | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2300 Journalism: Layout and Design | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2350 Reporting Disaster Stories | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2360 History and Principles of Journalism | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2600 Digital Journalism | 3 hours |
| JOUR 2850 Television and Radio Reporting | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3060 Community Reporting | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3080 Global Journalism | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3130 Feature Writing | 3 hours |
| JOUR 3750 Environmental Journalism and Communications | 3 hours |
| JOUR 4050 Sports Reporting | 3 hours |
| JOUR 4170 Investigative Journalism | 3 hours |
| JOUR 4380 Magazine Journalism | 3 hours |
| INTM 1600 Introduction to Interactive Media | 3 hours |
| PHOT 2500 Photojournalism | 3 hours |
| PHOT 3190 Digital Photography | 3 hours |
| VIDE 1000 Introduction to Video Production | 3 hours |
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