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BLJRNMING - Bilingual Journalism

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Overview

Program Requirements

Completion requirement

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Completion requirement

The minor comprises 9 units from 500-level courses in the School of Journalism for which students have the prerequisites. In consultation with the director of graduate studies, you may select professional skills courses, journalism studies courses or a combination. Not all courses are offered every semester.

Completion requirement

Students who want to communicate their field of interest with the public, for example, could select three of the following courses:

  • BJP 510: Latinx and the News Media in the United States (fall) - taught in English

  • BJP 511: Global Latinx: Diasporic Transnationalism and Media in Latin America, Europe & Asia (spring) - taught in English

  • BJP 512: Covering Latinx Affairs I: Bilingual Multimedia Reporting and Audio Production (fall) - taught in Spanish

  • BJP 513: Covering Latinx Affairs II: Bilingual Multimedia Reporting and Video Production (spring) - taught in Spanish

  • JOUR 506: Introductory and Advanced Reporting (fall)

  • JOUR 507: Reporting with Multimedia (fall)

  • JOUR 508: Journalism Theory and Practice (fall)

  • JOUR 509: International and U.S. Media Law (spring)

  • JOUR 511: Feature Writing (fall and spring)

  • JOUR 555: Environmental Journalism (spring)

  • JOUR 572: Science Journalism (fall)

  • JOUR 580: Advanced Multimedia (spring)

Students with an interest in international journalism studies might opt for three of the following courses:

  • JOUR 508: Journalism Theory and Practice (fall)

  • JOUR 509: International and U.S. Media Law (spring)

  • JOUR 573: Reporting the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (fall)

Completion requirement

After selecting a tentative slate of courses, you must complete a Doctoral Plan of Study, declaring Bilingual Journalism as your Ph.D. minor. Submit the form via the GradPath forms in UAccess.

Comprehensive exams – both written and oral – must include the minor. If a program chooses to offer the minor, then it must ensure that the student has a comprehensive knowledge of that field. The written exam can be done in a number of ways – a question or two added to the major program’s written exam or a free-standing short exam or integrative paper.

A minor is more than a couple of classes; it needs to be integrated with the your major and evaluated in a comprehensive way. Sometimes students want to add a minor late or to change minors. That is acceptable, but some arrangement needs to be made to ensure that there is a comprehensive written and oral examination over the minor field. The oral comp committee requires a fourth person because it must cover the minor. The final defense requires only three people because it does not require participation of the minor.

Completion requirement