Journalism Minor

Goal 1:  Explore the vital role that media organizations play in sustaining democracies by holding governments, institutions, organizations, and individuals accountable to their constituents.

Outcome 1.1:  Students will be able to explain the rights and responsibilities of a free press and its practitioners.

Goal 2:  Learn basic journalism principles and accepted tenets of journalism ethics and the law.

Outcome 2.1:  Students will be able to apply basic journalism principles that follow ethical guidelines and/or knowledge of communication law.

Goal 3:  Develop ideation, reporting, writing/production, revision and copy editing skills to create journalistic content that is consistent with accepted journalism practice and style.

Outcome 3.1:  Students will be able to ideate, report, create, and edit journalistic content in a variety of formats and styles.

Goal 4:  Learn best practices for diverse and inclusive storytelling.

Outcome 4.1:  Students will be able to ideate, report and produce content that reflects best journalistic practices in inclusive storytelling.

The minor in Journalism requires six journalism courses.

For English majors minoring in journalism: of the six required courses for the Journalism Minor, no more than two courses may also count towards the English Major.