Journalism, Minor
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.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| JMS 219 | ESSENTIAL MULTIMEDIA SKILLS | 3 |
| JMS 220 | MEDIA WRITING | 4 |
| JMS 305 | VIDEO PRODUCTION | 3 |
| JMS 319 | MULTIMEDIA REPORTING | 3 |
| Select one of these two courses: | ||
| JOUR 390 | TOPICS IN REPORTING & WRITING | 3 |
| or JOUR 392 | THE CONVERGENCE NEWSROOM | |
| Total Credit Hours | 16 | |