Offered in: Chicago

The Journalism minor focuses on hands-on professional courses in which students develop and practice the research, writing, and reporting skills  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, including online, print, and broadcast.

The Journalism minor is an excellent option for students who choose to major in fields - such as political science, history, economics, or the sciences - where competency in all aspects of mass media messaging is increasingly necessary.

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 JMS 399 MEDIA 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 transitioned to the new JMS subject designation in 2019-20.