Journalism

The Journalism Minor provides students from all academic majors the opportunity to acquire essential skills of reporting, writing, and multimedia news production to become knowledgeable and effective journalists with marketable areas of expertise.  Students minoring in journalism will come to recognize connections between different disciplines and the media and learn how to use knowledge and skills acquired in other coursework to identify, report on, and clearly explain newsworthy stories to an audience of non-specialists through a variety of media.

Requirements for Journalism Minor

Required Courses6
Introduction to Journalism
Multimedia Journalism
Electives12
CM-268
CM-270
CM-272
CM-351
CM-352
CM-354
Journalism: Practice and Techniques
Journalism: Advanced Newswriting
Journalism: Feature Writing
EN-269
Journalism: Editing
Journalism Workshop
News Reporting and Writing I
Sportswriting
Writing for Digital Environments
Advanced Practices in Writing
EN-351
Practicum in Journalism
Opinion Writing
Total Credits18

As an interdisciplinary program, the Journalism Minor draws its core faculty from multiple disciplines across campus. Each faculty member's information can be found at the respective department for each of the courses.  The Program Coordinator for the Journalism Minor is Cleve Wiese, Ph.D. in the Department of English.