Requirements

Journalism minor requirements (5.25 course credits)

Core Courses (3.25 minimum course credits)

• COMM 260 Introduction to Journalism: Reporting and Writing                  
• PUBR 267 Layout & Design
• PUBR 363 Media and Public Relations Writing
• COMM 117 Journalism Workshop (0.25 class credit)

Electives (2.0 elective course credits)

Students will choose two elective courses, 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 237 Photography: Digital
• BUSI 105 Introduction to Commerce
• BUSI 307 Principles of Marketing
• CHEM 102 Forensic Science
• COMM 261 Mass Media and Modern Society
• ECON 200 Principles of Economics
• ECON 340 Economics and Law
• ENGL 301 Creative Non-Fiction
• MATH 106 Statistics
• PHIL 201 Critical Thinking: Introduction to Logic
• PHIL 207 Ethics: Philosophical and Religious
• POLS 210 Public Opinion
• POLS 311 Parties and Elections
• POLS 333 U.S. Foreign Policy
• SOCI 102 Social Problems
• SOCI 251 Criminology

Internship

An internship pre-approved by the Journalism Minor Coordinator (may be taken for credit through COMM 494, 495, 496 or PUBR 493).