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The journalism minor at Saint Leo University provides students from other majors with essential communication skills, journalistic knowledge, and practical experience through coursework and an internship. It complements students' primary studies and enhances their ability to critically think, write, and engage with media. The minor requires 18 credit hours, including core courses in professional writing, journalistic writing, and advanced journalism.
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Degree Overview:
The journalism minor will allow the University to offer essential communication skills to students whose major area of study is elsewhere. The minor will allow students the flexibility of selecting journalistic classes that complement their interests and studies, an internship with the campus newspaper, and an expansion of Saint Leo University’s community of critical thinkers, writers and readers. The minor provides students from other majors an opportunity to explore print-based media and augment their current major with journalistic skills and knowledge. The purpose of this minor is to offer students an opportunity to build a skill-set suitable for the professional field of news media. This minor requires 18 credit hours. English majors in the Professional Writing Specialization may not take this minor.
Outline:
The journalism minor at Saint Leo University consists of 18 credit hours. The following are the required courses:
- ENG 205 - Introduction to Professional Writing (3 credits)
- ENG 227 - Basic Journalistic Writing (3 credits)
- ENG 441 - Advanced Journalism (3 credits)
- ENG 318 - English Pre-Internship (3 credits) or ENG 428 - English Internship (3 credits)
- Two of the following courses:
- ENG 332 - Creative Non-fiction (3 credits)
- ENG 430 - The Independent Writer (3 credits)
- ENG 450 - Desktop Publishing and Design (3 credits)
- ART 226 - Beginning Photography (3 credits)
