Major in Fashion and Minor in Ournalism
Programme Clarification
The Journalism pocket-sized will offer students the skills required to practice journalism, including researching, writing, interviewing, and using equipment and engineering necessary to tell non-fiction stories. Students will as well learn journalism theory - the reason journalism and the First Amendment are critical to a functioning democracy as well every bit the ethics that shape news media decision-making. Courses on the "skills" side of the pocket-sized will include COMM 160 and COMM 260W, the foundational journalistic reporting and writing courses that can exist followed past upper-division courses in impress/digital and circulate. In add-on, students will exist able to pursue visual story-telling via photojournalism and multimedia/video courses. At the same time, theory courses such as COMM 271 will innovate students to the history of journalism in this country and show how the news media has reacted to changes in the industry.
What is Journalism?
Journalism matters. The core skill set of journalism, gathering information and organizing it to tell a story in a compelling fashion, matters more than ever. While consumption and delivery methods modify almost daily for information, journalism exists in more forms than e'er earlier. Circulate, digital, online, multimedia, impress … journalism matters. For audiences old and young, for audiences interested in a mix of data, for audiences interested in niche or specific data … journalism matters. Journalism matters because the fact-based approach to data serves the public interest.
Yous Might Like This Program If...
- You have an appreciation and understanding of popular culture.
- Y'all have excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- You lot have an involvement in telling stories, no matter the medium, and trying technologies that engage an audience.
Program Requirements
| Requirement | Credits |
|---|---|
| Requirements for the Minor | 19 |
Requirements for the Minor
A grade of C or better is required for all courses in the small-scale, as specified by Senate Policy 59-10. In improver, at least half-dozen credits of the minor must be unique from the prescribed courses required by a educatee'southward major(s).
Some prerequisites may be required to run into the requirements for this minor.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prescribed Courses | ||
| Prescribed Courses: Require a grade of C or ameliorate | ||
| COMM 160 | Basic News Writing Skills | i |
| COMM 260W | News Writing and Reporting | 3 |
| COMM 271 | Principles of Journalism | 3 |
| COMM 403 | Police of Mass Communications | 3 |
| COMM 409 | News Media Ethics | 3 |
| Boosted Courses | ||
| Additional Courses: Require a grade of C or meliorate | ||
| Select half-dozen credits from the following: | vi | |
| COMM 261 | The Literature of Journalism  | |
| COMM 269 | Photojournalism | |
| COMM 360 | Radio Reporting | |
| COMM 362 | Podcasting | |
| COMM 364 | Data Visualization for Journalists | |
| COMM 460W | Reporting Methods | |
| COMM 461 | Magazine Writing | |
| COMM 462 | Feature Writing | |
| COMM 463 | Paper Blueprint | |
| COMM 464W | Editorial, Opinion and Commentary Writing | |
| COMM 465 | Telly Reporting | |
Bookish Advising
The objectives of the academy's academic advising program are to help advisees identify and achieve their bookish goals, to promote their intellectual discovery, and to encourage students to take reward of both in-and out-of form educational opportunities in order that they get self-directed learners and determination makers.
Both advisers and advisees share responsibility for making the advising human relationship succeed. Past encouraging their advisees to become engaged in their education, to meet their educational goals, and to develop the habit of learning, advisers assume a pregnant educational role. The advisee's unit of enrollment volition provide each advisee with a primary academic adviser, the information needed to plan the chosen program of study, and referrals to other specialized resources.
READ SENATE POLICY 32-00: ADVISING POLICY
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