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JOURNALISM MINOR

The journalism minor is comprised of 7 courses - 3 credits each course - for a total of 21 credits

THERE ARE FIVE REQUIRED CORE COURSES IN JOURNALISM:
(15 CREDITS)

JOURNALISM 100 NEWS MEDIA

JOURNALISM 101 NEWS REPORTING AND WRITING 1

JOURNALISM 200 NEWS REPORTING AND WRITING 2

JOURNALISM 201 NEWS EDITING

JOURNALISM 202 BROADCAST JOURNALISM

THERE ARE TWO REQUIRED ELECTIVE COURSES FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST: STUDENTS MAY CHOOSE ANY TWO COURSES.
(6 CREDITS)

ECON 211 ECONOMICS OF ASIA

ECON 224 AMER. ECONOMIC HISTORY SINCE 1914

ECON 246 URBAN ECONOMICS

ENG 210 CREATIVE WRITING

ENGLISH 211 WRITING NONFICTIONAL PROSE

ENGLISH 303 ESSAY WORKSHOP

ENG 387 LITERATURE AND POLITICS

HIST 266 CONTEMPORARY AMERICA

HIST 275 BUSINESS IN AMERICA

HIST 283 AMER. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1865

MST 242 TELEVISION PRODUCTION II

MST 256 MEDIA CENSORSHIP

MST 357 MEDIA, LAW, ETHICS

POLI SCI 213 THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN AMERICA

POLI SCI 217 DECISION MAKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE

POLI SCI 220 POLITICS AND THE MEDIA

SOCIOLOGY 218 MASS COMMUNICATION AND POPULAR CULTURE

THERE ARE THREE NON-REQUIRED JOURNALISM COURSES WHICH MAY BE TAKEN TO FULFILL THE ELECTIVES REQUIREMENT:

JOURNALISM 203. NEWSPAPER LAB I. -- Publishes Queens World

JRN 301. ELECTRONIC JOURNALISM: Publishes Queens World Online. Requires basic understanding of Netscape Navigator. Knowledge of HTML helpful. Students must have approval from Program director to sign up for course.

JOURNALISM 300. INTERNSHIP. Journalism Students may sign up for this course through the Internship Coordinator, Prof. Lois Bianchi.

RETENTION REQUIREMENT:

Retention in the Journalism minor requires maintaining a B- average in Journalism courses and an overall GPA of 2.75.

Note: Courses taken to fulfill a student's major requirements cannot count towards satisfying the Journalism electives requirement.

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