[Pre-FALL 2009 curriculum]
Effective Fall 2011, all journalism courses must be passed with a C or better. Courses taken before Fall 2011 are considered passed if the specific requirement accepted the course in the C- to D- range.
At least 49 journalism credits are required. The premajor core (19 credits), Upper Division Breadth requirement (12 credits) and most Sequence courses (16-20 credits) add up to 51 credits. The news/editorial major is an exception. As the sequence only requires four courses (16 credits), all news/editorial students must complete two elective journalism credits. Download a one-page pdf version of these pre-Fall 2009 requirements!
I. GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA)
Journalism premajors must maintain a UO grade point average (GPA) of 2.70 or better to remain in good standing with the school. In appropriate cases, students may be advised to change to other majors.
II. LOWER-DIVISION CORE
All premajors in journalism are required to receive a grade of C- or better in the following:
- J201 Mass Media and Society
- J202 Information Gathering*
- J203 Writing for the Media* (Prerequisite: C-/P or better in J101 Grammar for Journalists and completion of the university's writing composition requirement)
- J204 Visual Communication*
*J202, J203 and J204 were discontinued with the implementation of the Fall 2009 curriculum. Pre-Fall 2009 students should discuss appropriate substitutions with a journalism adviser.
III. SPECIALIZATION/SEQUENCE WITHIN JOURNALISM
Journalism students must declare at least one specialization or sequence when applying for full major status. Each sequence has specific course requirements. (Minimum passing grade for sequence courses: D- or better if taken before Fall 2011; C or better if taken Fall 2011 or later.)
IV. UPPER-DIVISION BREADTH REQUIREMENT
All journalism students must also complete three upper-division breadth courses chosen from specific lists. The implementation of the Fall 2009 curriculum impacted some of these courses. Consult a journalism adviser for more details. (Minimum passing grade for breadth courses: D- or better if taken before Fall 2011; C or better if taken Fall 2011 or later.)
List A (choose two courses):
- J320 Women, Minorities and Media
- J385 Communication Law
- J386 Communication Economics*
- J387 Communication History
- J388 Communication Theory and Criticism*
- J396 International Communication
- J397 Mass Media Ethics*
List B (choose one course):
- J412 Issues in Communication Studies (Offered with various course titles. Any J412 will complete the requirement.)
- J415 Telecommunication Policy*
- J417 Public Media and Culture*
- J418 Communication and Democracy*
- J446 Advertising and Society*
- J455 Third World Development Communication*
- J467 Issues in International Communication (Offered with various course titles. Any J467 will complete the requirement.)
- J492 International Journalism*
- J495 Research Methods (Offered with various course titles. Any J495 will complete the requirement.)
- J496 Topics in Communication Ethics* (Offered with various course titles. Any J496 will complete the requirement.)
- J497 Media Management and Economics*
Completion of the lower-division core, the upper-division breadth requirement and any of the sequence specializations may not add up to 49 journalism hours. Some elective hours may be required. The 24 upper-division journalism hours required for the major do count toward the total 62 upper-division hours required by the university.
V. GENERAL-STUDIES REQUIREMENT
Where applicable, these courses can overlap with the University’s group requirements. Courses numbered 196, 198, 199, 399-406 or 408-410 may not be used to fill the journalism general-studies requirement.
- At least 116 credits outside journalism. (Any course prefix other than “J.”)
- Of the 116 stated above, at least 94 credits have to be from courses offered by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Sixteen hours in literature. “Literature” includes any course dealing with printed literature taught by the Departments of English (ENG), Comparative Literature (COLT), Classics (CLAS), Humanities (HUM), or cross-listed for major credit by these departments on the online schedule of classes. At least eight of the 16 hours must be in literature courses taught in English. A maximum of eight hours in one of the following categories may be used to meet this requirement: (a) Literature courses taught in a second language as part of a student’s program of study in a second language, or (b) Courses treating film as literature. (Courses in this category should have a significant reading and writing component.)
- Eight hours in history. “History” includes any history course taught by the Department of History (HIST) or cross-listed for history major credit on the online schedule of classes.
- Eight hours in economics. “Economics” includes any economics course taught by the Department of Economics (EC) or cross-listed for economics major credit on the online schedule of classes.
- Three additional blocks of eight credits from departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. Courses used to satisfy requirements (C), (D), and (E) above cannot simultaneously be used as an additional block. First- and second-year foreign language courses taken for the Bachelor of Arts requirement and first-year WR courses that fulfill the writing composition requirement also may not be used to fulfill this requirement.
VI. OTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION
- Minimum 2.50 UO journalism GPA
- Minimum 2.50 UO GPA
- Minimum 49 credits in journalism
- Minimum 24 upper-division credits in journalism
- Minimum 27 credits in journalism taken at UO
