Digital Communication & Multimedia Journalism B.A.

Courses

Our students acquire skills and aptitudes to succeed in today’s expanding world of news, including Web-based, interactive, digital journalism. Classes blend theory and practice to explore legal rights and ethical responsibilities while teaching students to cover the news and produce other material for mass communication under realistic deadlines and conditions. Seniors graduate with a diverse portfolio of professional work and the confidence to compete for a challenging range of jobs as reporters, editors, photojournalists, video storytellers, news researchers, page designers for print and on-line publications and organizations. Students also build skills for entrepreneurial mass communication initiatives.

REQUIRED COURSEWORK FOR THE DIGITAL COMMUNICATION & MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM MAJOR

Pre-Core Curriculum   9 hours

MMC 2100 Writing for the Mass Media (3)
MMC 3602 Mass Comm & Society (3)
VIC 3001 Introduction to Visual Communication (3)
Foundation Core   9 hours (taken concurrently with Professional Core and Electives)
MMC 4200   Communications Law (3)
MMC 4203   Media Ethics (3)
JOU 3346C   Multimedia Reporting (3)

Professional Core   11 hours (taken concurrently with Foundation Core and Electives)

JOU 2100    Beginning Reporting (3)
JOU 3101    Advanced Reporting (3)
JOU 4188    Neighborhood News Bureau (3)
JOU 4950    Senior Seminar (3, to be completed within final 3 semesters of study)
Electives   15 hours (taken concurrently with Professional Core and Foundation Core)

Digital Skills Electives

MMC 3734   Social Media (3)
MMC 3140  Web Publishing (3)
MMC 4936   Data Visualization (3)
MMC 4936   Intro to Blogging (3)
MMC 4936   Telling Stories with Data (3)

Food & Travel Journalism Electives

MMC 4936   Food in the Media (3)
MMC 4936   Food Writing (3)
MMC 4936   Sizzling Images (3)
MMC 4936   Study Abroad Food & Travel Writing (3)

Writing, Reporting, Journalism Electives

JOU 3308   Magazine Article/Feature Writing (3)
MMC 4936   Entertainment Reporting (3)

Photography, Video Electives

PGY 3610   Photojournalism I (3)
PGY 3620   Photojournalism II (3)
MMC 4131   Video Storytelling I (3)
MMC 4133   Video Storytelling II (3)
MMC 4936   Virtual Reality & Alternative Storytelling (3)

Specialty Electives

MMC 4936   Entrepreneurial Journalism (3)
MMC 4936   Media & Elections (3)
MMC 4936   Journalists in the Movies (3)
RTV 3411   Race, Gender & Class in the Media (3)

Internship

MMC 4945  Media Internship (3)
Occasionally other electives will be offered, such as MMC 4503: Literary Journalism as well as other MMC 4936 Special Topics courses.

Outside Requirements   9 hours

Required Outside Elective

ANT 2410  Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
Choose 2 from among the following electives

ECO 2013  Macro Economics (3)
or
ECO 2023  Micro Economics (3)
PHI 1103    Critical Thinking (3)
or
PHI 2110   Intro to Philosophy (3)
PHI 2630   Contemporary Moral Issues (3)
POS 2112   State and Local Government & Politics (3)
or
POS 3142   Intro to Urban Politics & Government (3)
CPO 2002   Intro to Comparative Politics (3)
CCJ 3024   Survey of Criminal Justice System (3)
ARH 4724   History of Graphic Design (3)
PUP 4203   Environmental Politics & Policy (3)
BSC 2050   Environment (3)
PHI 3640   Environmental Ethics (3)
BSC 4057   Environmental Issues (3)
ANT 4462   Health, Illness & Culture (3)
ARH 2050   History of Visual Arts I (3)
ARH 20151   History of Visual Arts II (3)
REL 3363   Introduction to Islam (3)
REL 2300   Intro to World Religion (3)
JOS 3308   War and Society (3)