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JOURMING - 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 emphasis courses, journalism studies emphasis 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:

  • 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 520: Digital Communications Law (every other year)

  • JOUR 528: Product Development in Journalism (every other year)

  • JOUR 533: Digging with Data (every other year)

  • JOUR 547: Art of Access: Info Sleuthing (every other year)

  • JOUR 555: Environmental Journalism (every other year)

  • JOUR 565: Issues in Covering Science and the Environment (every other year)

  • JOUR 572: Science Journalism (every other year)

  • JOUR 580: Advanced Multimedia (spring)

  • JOUR 582: Drone Zone (winter/summer and sometimes fall or spring)

  • JOUR 584: News App Development (every other year)

  • JOUR 586: Health Journalism (every other year)

Students with an interest in 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

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