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Basic Skills Requirements: A student entering
the News and Information or the Strategic Communications courses
of study must have basic journalism skills. This requirement
may be fulfilled by significant professional experience or
undergraduate course work in journalism and mass communications
from a school accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education
in Journalism and Mass Communications. Students who do not
meet the requirement must complete the following two courses
that do not count toward the 36-hour graduate credit requirement:
JOUR 445 Multimedia Writing and Production (3)
JOUR 419 Multimedia Editing (3)
Core Course Requirements: Four courses are
required.
JOUR 618 First Amendment and Society (3)
JOUR 801 Research I: Theory (3)
JOUR 802 Research II: Methods (3)
JOUR 803 Survey of Mass Media and Popular Culture (3)
Professional Course Requirements: Students
must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours of professionally-oriented
courses.
A student with significant professional experience may,
as part of the application, request permission to substitute
other course work for all or part of the professional course
requirement. The application must include documentation
of the student’s professional experience. At the point
of admission, the graduate committee grants or denies requests
to substitute other course work for the professional course
requirement.
A student takes professional courses from among courses
numbered JOUR 500 to JOUR 797.
Students in Strategic communications must include JOUR
676 Strategic Campaigns. Students in News and Information
must include at least one course designated as advanced
media.
Students may enroll in a second seminar to satisfy a maximum
of three hours credit in the Professional Course Requirements.
Advanced Course Requirements: A student
must complete 9 credit hours of advanced course work:
JOUR 840 Seminar in: ___ (3) May be taken twice on different
topics.
JOUR 898 Master’s Research (3)
JOUR 899 Master’s Project/Thesis (3)
Curriculum at a Glance
Course Descriptions
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