BLJRNMA - Bilingual Journalism

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Required Core Coursework (15 units):
All courses are 3 units

BJP 510  Latinx and News Media in the United States
BJP 511  Global Latinx Diasphoric Transnationalism and News Media
BJP 512  Covering Latinx Affairs I: Bilingual Multimedia Reporting Audio Production (taught in Spanish)
BJP 513  Covering Latinx Affairs II: Bilingual Multimedia Reporting Video Production (taught in Spanish)
JOUR 909 Project or JOUR 593 Bilingual Internship

Electives (18 units required)

All courses are 3 units. Choose electives in Human Rights, Journalism, Latin American Studies, Mexican American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese.

Recommended Human Rights Electives

HRTS 500 Advancing Human Rights

HRTS 501 Advancing Human Rights Organizations

HRTS 510 Advancing Human Rights Law

HRTS 502 Advancing Human Rights Organizations II

HRTS 505 Human Rights Voices

HRTS 511 Advancing Human Rights through Strategic Litigation

HRTS 520 Community-Based Participatory Action Research for Human Rights

HRTS 521 Community-Based Participatory Action Research for Gender Based Violence

HRTS 530 Understanding Gender-Based Violence

HRTS 531 Femicide/Feminicide

HRTS 541 Advancing Human Rights through Documentary Media

HRTS 542 Advancing Human Rights through the Arts

HRTS 543 Advancing Human Rights with Technology

HRTS 595A Human Rights Across Contexts - Cultural Heritage

HRTS 596A Human Rights Crises

HRTS 596B Cutting-Edge Advances in Human Rights Practice

HRTS 597A Exploring Human Rights through Virtual Field Trips

HRTS 599 Independent study

Recommended Journalism Electives

JOUR 505 Media Apprenticeship

JOUR 506 Introductory and Advanced Reporting

JOUR 507 Reporting with Multimedia

JOUR 573 Reporting in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

JOUR 593 Internship

Some Latin American Studies Department Electives (there are many possibilities--discuss with the DGS)

LAS 500 Introduction to Latin American Studies

LAS 505 Sabores de Mexico: From Farm to Table

LAS 505A Colony to Nation to the 21st Century: Politics and Culture in Chilean History

LAS 518 Southwest Land and Society

LAS 542 Natural Resources and the Law in the Spanish Borderlands of North America

Some Mexican American Studies Department Electives (there are many possibilities--discuss with the DGS)

MAS 505: Traditional Indian Medicine: Health, Healing and Well Being

MAS 508: The Mexican-American: A Cultural Perspective

MAS 509: Mexican Immigration

MAS 510: Socio-Cultural Determinants of Health

MAS 525: Latino Health Disparities

Some Spanish and Portuguese Department Electives (there are many possibilities--discuss with the DGS)

SPAN 501 Introduction to Hispanic Studies

SPAN 565D History of Spain: Contemporary

SPAN 574 Language in the Mexican American Experience

SPAN 574 Heritage Language Research

SPAN 585 Introduction to Translation Studies

Additional courses can be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies.

Students must be fluent in English and Spanish or English and Portuguese. They must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution (U.S. or abroad).

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.