Associate Professors--Long-Scott, Thompson, V.
Minor in Journalism
The main goals of the program's skills courses are to help students become accurate and thorough researchers, precise and graceful writers, technically and aesthetically fine photojournalists. Introductory courses emphasize the need to think and write clearly. Many students choose the major because these skills provide excellent preparation for numerous occupations, not only for journalism.
Writing students are required to take introductory courses in research, reporting, writing, and editing. Photojournalism students are required to take introductory courses in writing and reporting as well as courses in basic photography and news photography. Advanced courses are more specialized--feature writing, depth reporting, public affairs reporting, computer-assisted reporting, magazine writing and multimedia for writers and editors; newspaper, magazine, documentary, and studio photography for photographers. In order to understand the role of journalism in society, students also are required to take courses in journalism ethics, law, history, and ethnic diversity. Students are strongly urged to develop speaking, writing, and listening competency in a second language.
To give students pre-professional experience, the program requires students to work on these laboratory publications: Golden Gater, a twice-a-week newspaper; Prism, a general interest magazine published three times each semester; a multimedia webzine; a department newsletter; electronic versions of these publications; and an independent department web site. These publications are produced by classes and are taken for credit. Consistent with the department's commitment to protect students' First Amendment rights, students have editorial control of the publications.
All students are required to consult with a faculty adviser each semester. They can choose their adviser or have one assigned by the department office. Students are asked to provide advisers with on-going written records of their complete academic record for department records.
Services are available to all journalism students at the department's Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism. Coaching is provided by Bay Area journalists who volunteer to work through the center with any student enrolled in department skills courses. Advanced students may be assigned a professional as a mentor. The privately funded center was established in 1990 to create programs that increase retention rates and job/internship placement of journalism students and to increase ethnic minority enrollment and graduation rates. It conducts special programs for high school students, high school journalism advisers, and for Bay Area journalists. Through the center, department faculty and students and center staff engage in research that consistently has had a national and international impact on journalism, with an emphasis on research about the coverage on ethnic minority people and issues.
The department is accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). It is a member of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and sponsors a student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
The faculty includes eight full-time members and a fluctuating number of part-time instructors, most of them active journalists. Faculty encourage and assist students in finding jobs and internships. Students may earn up to three units in JOUR 409 for journalism internships. Consult department office to arrange credit for internships.
In order to assure that every journalism student's education is as rich and varied as possible, the department has established these requirements:
Core course units 19
Sequence course units 15
Total required Journalism units 34
Non-Journalism units (The 90 must include the
nine-unit upper division block in a single
subject chosen in consultation with an
adviser and at least 65 units in liberal arts
and sciences. Classes in broadcasting,
public relations, and advertising cannot
qualify as non-journalism units.) 90
Total 124All courses in this discipline are listed in alphabetical sequence elsewhere in this Bulletin(consult Index for page reference).
Units
JOUR 200 Journalism and the Mass Media 3
JOUR 221 Newswriting 3
JOUR 300 Reporting 3
JOUR 301 History of Journalism 3
JOUR 305 Mass Communication Law 3
JOUR 610 Ethnic Diversity and U.S.
Journalism 1
JOUR 666 Ethical Issues in Journalism 3
Total for core 19
Courses selected from one of the sequences
listed below 15
Non-journalism block units on advisement 9
Total for major 43
Journalism majors and minors must earn at least C+ in all laboratory and skills courses.
Journalism majors and minors must take all journalism courses and the nine-unit upper division non-journalism block for letter grade only.
JOUR 330 Editing 3
Two courses selected from the following: 6
JOUR 320 Depth Reporting
JOUR 321 Feature Writing
JOUR 420 Reporting of Public Affairs
JOUR 421 Analytic Journalism
JOUR 595 Magazine Writing
JOUR 695 Multimedia Journalism
Two sections of laboratory courses (may not
be taken same semester) 6
JOUR 480 Newspaper Laboratory I (may be
taken twice)
JOUR 485 Magazine Laboratory I (may be
taken once)
Total for sequence 15
JOUR 330 Editing 3
Two sections of laboratory courses (may not
be taken same semester) 6
JOUR 480 Newspaper Laboratory I (may be
taken once)
JOUR 485 Magazine Laboratory I (may be
taken twice)
JOUR 500 The Contemporary Magazine 3
JOUR 595 Magazine Writing 3
Total for sequence 15
Three of the following courses (JOUR 235,
335, and 435; or, if JOUR 235 has been
taken at another campus, JOUR 335,
435, and 535): 9
JOUR 235 Photojournalism I
JOUR 335 Photojournalism II
JOUR 435 Photojournalism III
JOUR 535 Photojournalism IV
Two sections of laboratory courses (may not
be taken same semester) 6
JOUR 480 Newspaper Laboratory I (may
be taken twice)
JOUR 485 Magazine Laboratory I (may be
taken twice)
Total for sequence 15NOTE:JOUR 235 and JOUR 335 must be taken in consecutive order; either JOUR 435 or JOUR 535 may be taken after successfully completing JOUR 335.
Units
JOUR 200 Journalism and the Mass Media 3
JOUR 221 Newswriting 3
JOUR 300 Reporting 3
JOUR 610 Ethnic Diversity and U.S.
Journalism 1
One course selected from the following: 3
JOUR 320 Depth Reporting
JOUR 321 Feature Writing
JOUR 420 Reporting Public Affairs
JOUR 421 Analytic Journalism
JOUR 595 Magazine Writing
JOUR 330 Editing 3
One course selected from the following: 3
JOUR 301 History of Journalism
JOUR 666 Ethical Issues in Journalism
One course selected from the following: 3
JOUR 480 Newspaper Laboratory I
JOUR 485 Magazine Laboratory I
Total 22