The Journalism minor is grounded in the liberal arts curriculum and students completing the Minor are expected to major in traditional liberal arts subjects—Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, History, International Studies, Modern Foreign Language, Political Science, Psychology, etc. The Journalism minor trains students to be critical thinkers and exceptional writers and provides knowledge and skill in reporting, news writing and visual design/layout principles for various media. Learning objectives of the minor include:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the history and role of professionals and institutions in shaping journalistic communication;
• Work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity;
• Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the academic discipline(s) in which they work;
• Write and report correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the academic discipline(s), audiences and purposes they serve;
• Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness;
• Think critically, creatively and independently.
Required Courses for the Journalism Minor (4.5 minimum course credits):
COMM 260 Introduction to Journalism: Reporting and Writing
COMM 363 Media and Public Relations Writing
COMM 367 Layout & Design
An approved internship COMM 494,495, 496 or PUBR-493
At least one hour of workshop credit in COMM 116
Electives: 2 elective course credits
Students will choose two elective courses (6 semester hours), neither of which may be in a student’s major department or counts toward their major, selected from the following list (or approved by the journalism coordinator):
ARTD 236 Photography
BUSI 105 Introduction to Commerce
BUSI 307 Marketing
COMM 261 Mass Media and Modern Society
COMM 491 Seminar in Freedom of Expression and Communication Ethics
ECON 200 Principles of Economics
ECON 340 Economics and Law
ENGL 301 Creative Non-Fiction
HIST 410 History Survey U.S. History 1900-Present
MATH 106 Statistics
PHIL 201 Introduction to Logic
PHIL 207 Ethics
POLS 311 Parties and Elections
POLS 333 U.S. Foreign Policy
SOCI 102 Social Problems