Program Overview
The Journalism and Storytelling minor at the NYC campus combines courses from Communication and Media Studies and English departments. It equips students with 21st-century journalism practices, explores digital culture's impact on storytelling, and offers elective courses in media criticism, ethics, and internships. The program requires 15 credits, including core courses in journalism and writing, and provides a foundation for careers in journalism and writing-focused fields.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Journalism and Storytelling minor is an interdisciplinary minor offered jointly by the Communication and Media Studies and English departments on the NYC campus. It is designed for students who are interested in journalism and other writing-focused careers, as well as for those seeking a perspective from which to explore digital culture and its relationship to storytelling. Courses will familiarize students with twenty-first century practices of journalism while engaging them in its history.
Outline:
Required Courses
- CMS 280 Introduction to Journalism (3 credits)
- ENG 310 Journalism (3 credits)
- Select one of the following (3 credits):
- CMS 226 Writing for the Electronic Media
- CMS 228 Writing for Convergent Technologies
- One approved 200-level English Topics Course
Elective Courses
- Strongly recommended is one internship course:
- CMS 393 Internship Program I (3 credits)
- ENG 393 Internship (3 credits)
- Select one of the following: (3 credits)
- ART 254 Shooting the Word: The Photographer's Eye. The Novelist's Vision
- CMS 311 Ethics, Morality, and the Media
- CMS 338 Media Criticism
- CMS 341 Citizen Journalism and Deliberation
- ENG 318 Feature Writing
- ENG 326 ETopics in Professional Writing: Art of Content Creation
