2019-2020 Academic Catalog

Offered in: Chicago

The Journalism minor at Roosevelt University focuses on hands-on professional courses in which students will develop and practice research, writing and reporting skills that are common to all journalistic fields. Students in the minor complete five lab-based courses working with state-of-the-art technology to report stories across multiple media forms. The Journalism minor is a good option for students who choose to major in a variety of fields including political science, history, economics, or the sciences.

Prerequisites

COMM 201 COMMUNICATION IN THE INFO AGE is the prerequisite course for this minor (grade C or better).

Requirements

Five courses (16 credit hours) are required for the minor in Journalism.

• Transfer students must complete three JOUR or JMS courses (9 credit hours) at Roosevelt.
• No 100-level courses may count toward the hours required for this minor.
• If JOUR 399 INTERNSHIP  or JMS 399 INTERNSHIP is used as additional elective for the minor, it must be taken pass/fail.
• No other pass/fail grades are accepted for this minor.
• All courses for the minor must be completed with a minimum grade of C (not C-) or better.
• All Journalism and Media Studies courses are transitioning to the new JMS subject designation in 2019-20.