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Journalism Minor - Secondary Education or Non-Teaching

Student Learning Outcomes

The Journalism program provides students with practical experience in preparing publications distributed to the campus community. The outcomes within the program correspond to the institutional learning outcomes:

  1. The sequence of courses for the journalism minor trains students in both the theory and the basic skills needed for preparing publications from writing and photography to computer-assisted layout and Web-based production of publications. (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcomes I, II, III, VI, and VII.)
  2. In preparation for teaching careers, students learn management and supervision of school publications (This learning outcome directly addresses Institutional Learning Outcome I, II, III, VI, and VII.) Students who complete the minor program are able to pursue careers in high school as advisors for student publications or as professional writers in a range of print and non-print media.

Requirements

Courses

JOUR 244Reporting/Feature Writing

3
JOUR 301Editing and Managing Publications

3
ENGL 210College Composition III

3
ENGL 213Literary Publications

3
ENGL 300Technical Writing

3
ENGL 288, ENGL 488, JOUR 288, or JOUR 488

3

Select six credit hours from the following courses:

ENGL 310Advanced Creative Writing

3
 
ENGL 315Structure and History of English

3
Or
ENGL 320Modern Grammar

3
 
BOTE 218Desktop Publishing

3
ART 281Introduction to Digital Photography

3
ART 122Two-Dimensional Design

3
 
COMM 210Advanced Public Speaking

3
Or
COMM 216Intercultural Communication

3
 
COMM 380Video Production

3
GDES 347Web Design

3

Total Credit Hours: 24