Program Requirements

General Program Requirements:
Number of Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 30

Required Courses:

Plan of Study Grid
Year 1
Summer IICredit Hours
JRN 5301 Introduction to Urban Journalism 3
 Credit Hours3
Fall
JRN 5302 Reporting Lab 1 3
JRN 5303 Journalism Concepts 3
JRN 5308 Multiplatform Journalism 3
JRN Elective 3
 Credit Hours12
Spring
JRN 5305 Reporting Lab 2 3
JRN 5306 Journalism and the Public Interest 3
Two JRN Electives 6
 Credit Hours12
Year 2
Summer I
JRN 9995 Master's Research Project 3
 Credit Hours3
 Total Credit Hours30

Culminating Event:
Capstone Project:
JRN 9995 Master's Research Project constitutes the culminating event. Students complete an independent reporting project that results in a journalistic masterwork analogous to a thesis that will be pitched to a professional news organization, creating the foundation for a portfolio of published work.