Journalism - B.A.
The Journalism major is designed to provide students with broad interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills for professional positions in media, news and information. Each student completes a sequence of courses intended to develop practical skills, focused on writing and technology, related to a potential career area. In addition, students select twelve credit hours in one of three concentrations based on their area of interest:
Broadcast: This concentration focuses journalistic preparation on television and radio broadcast outlets and professional techniques for news production and on-air performance.
Digital: This concentration supplements news writing background and skills with experience in multiple media outlets. Through courses in media writing and production, students gain hands-on experience in online news, blogging, podcasts, television, and radio.
Students must receive a "C" or higher for all courses within their major. Any grade below a "C", including "C-" must be repeated with a "C" or higher to graduate with a Communication/Theatre major.
The program provides all students with opportunities to gain practical experience appropriate to their interest through The Sojourn, GrantCOnnected.net,WIWU-TV51, WIWU-FM, Caesura, and Legacy.
Requirements (47 credits)
Division Core (12 credits)
Choose one Communication Lab:
Each section of
COM-116 may be repeated up to 8 times.
Major Requirements (20 credits)
COM-200: Must be taken 3 times and may be repeated up to 8 times.
Concentrations (Choose one) (14-15 credits)
Broadcast
Required (12 credits)
Electives (3 credits)
Choose 3 units from:
Digital
Required (9 credits)
| COM-200 | Journalism Practicum | 1 |
| COM-483 | Advanced Newswriting and Reporting | 3 |
| DES-101 | DC1: Fundamentals Design Studio | 3 |
COM-200 can be taken 3 times and may be repeated up to 8 times
Electives (6 credits)
Choose 6 units from:
Foreign Language (6 credits)
Foreign Language requirement - all students will be required to take 6 hours of one foreign language at the college level. (For students taking Mandarin Chinese courses, three hours of Mandarin Chinese will satisfy the Intercultural Experience requirement. However, Spanish and French courses currently do not meet the intercultural Experience requirement.) The following exceptions and guidelines will be used to implement the 6-hour foreign language requirement:
- Students for whom English is a second language will be exempt from the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
- Students who have completed four years of high school foreign language with no grade below a "C" will be exempt from the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
- Students who pass a foreign language competency test at a level equivalent to four semesters of a single language (Intermediate 2) will be exempt from the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
- Students who pass a foreign language competency test at a level equivalent to three semesters of a single language (Intermediate 1) will be exempt from 3 hours of the 6-hour foreign language requirement and will satisfy the other 3 hours by completing the Intermediate 2 course.
- Students will be allowed to transfer college credit hours to satisfy the foreign language requirement.
