Journalism Minor

Goal 1: Students will produce and edit journalistic work that demonstrates professional standards of accuracy, verification, attribution, and clarity across multiple media formats, including written, visual, audio, and digital platforms.

Outcome 1.1: Produce original reported stories that demonstrate accuracy, verification, attribution, clarity, and form consistent with professional journalistic standards. Apply editing and revision strategies through workshops and/or conferences, drafting, and tracked edits.

Goal 2: Students will apply ethical frameworks and critically analyze issues of power, representation, and equity in journalistic practice, demonstrating informed decision-making in reporting, sourcing, and storytelling.

Outcome 2.1: Apply journalistic ethical frameworks to analyze journalistic storytelling composed by professionals, peers, and their own work. Compose reflections explaining ethical decisions made in their own reporting process and evaluating how sourcing and framing choices influenced representation and voice.

Goal 3: Students will evaluate and articulate the role of journalism in a democratic society, including how journalistic practices uphold, challenge, or reshape accountability in a changing media landscape.

Outcome 3.1: Explain the historical and theoretical foundations of journalism as a democratic institution. Analyze how journalistic practices shape public accountability and civic discourse. Construct source-based arguments about journalism’s evolving role in contemporary media environments.