Journalism and Mass Communication (B.A.)

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Bachelor of Arts

Coursework is professionally oriented to train students to international standards in the skills of writing, reporting, editing, and production, as well as in media history, ethics, and responsibility.

To declare a sequence in the JRMC major, students must have completed 24 hours of university coursework and must have completed or be currently enrolled in RHET 103.

Students from Arab countries must complete the university’s general requirements in Arabic language before taking 300- and 400-level courses in journalism and mass communication.

Television courses are supported by the department’s professionally equipped Center for Electronic Journalism.

A total of 120 credits is required for a bachelor’s degree from this university. Students in journalism and mass communication taking professional sequences in journalism, broadcast journalism or integrated marketing communication must complete at least 36 credits.

Core Curriculum (34-46 credits)
Concentration Requirements for JMC Major (36-42 credits)
Collateral Requirements (21 credits)
General Electives/Minor (11-29 credits, depending on the number of credit hours needed to complete the 120 stated above).

All students must take the following JMC core courses:

JRMC 200 - Introduction to Mass Communication (3 cr.)
JRMC 201 - Mass Media Writing I (3 cr.)
JRMC 202 - Mass Media Writing II (3 cr.)
JRMC 250 - Global Media Systems (3 cr.)
OR
JRMC 300 - Arab Media: History, Law and Contemporary Issues (3 cr.)
JRMC 301 - Mass Media Editing (3 cr.)
JRMC 320 - Mass Communication Research (3 cr.)
JRMC 400 - Mass Media Ethics and Responsibility (3 cr.)

Specializations

Choose one of the following sequences in broadcast journalism, integrated marketing communication or journalism:

Broadcast Journalism (18 credits)

JRMC 337 - Electronic Newsgathering (3 cr.)
JRMC 339 - TV News Studio Workshop (3 cr.)
JRMC 360 - Principals of Broadcast Journalism (3 cr.)
JRMC 441 - Camera and Editing Workshop (3 cr.)
JRMC 460 - Radio Journalism Production (3 cr.)

Also choose at least one of the following:

ALNG 421 Professional and Technical Writing (Broadcast Arabic), 3 cr.

JRMC 338 - Broadcast News Voice, Speech and Presentation Workshop (3 cr.)

Collateral Requirements for all JMC students: (21 credits)

Students in journalism and broadcast journalism must select up to seven courses from the list below to satisfy a 21-credit-hour collateral requirement. Students can choose one to two courses from the list in addition to a minor of 15-18 credits in some discipline other than journalism and mass communication. Students in the integrated marketing communication specialization must select at least three courses from the following list to meet the 21-credit requirement.

ANTH 202 - Cultural Anthropology (3 cr.)
ECON 201 - Introduction to Macroeconomics (3 cr.)
ECON 202 - Introduction to Microeconomics (3 cr.)
HIST 356 - Society and State in the Middle East, 1906-present (3 cr.)
MATH 112 - Statistical Reasoning (3 cr.)
POLS 101 - Introduction to Political Science (3 cr.)
POLS 206 - Global Politics in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)
POLS 310 - Introduction to Development (3 cr.)
POLS 431 - Political Sociology (3 cr.)
PSYC 201 - Introduction to Psychology (3 cr.)
PSYC 202 General Psychology II, 3cr.
PSYC 301 - Social Psychology (3 cr.)
SOC 201 - Introduction to Sociology (3 cr.)
SOC 450 - Third World Development (3 cr.)

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