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Summary of Requirements
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- I. GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA)
- II. THE LOWER-DIVISION CORE
- III. SPECIALIZATION/SEQUENCE WITHIN JOURNALISM
- IV. UPPER-DIVISION BREADTH REQUIREMENT
- V. GENERAL-STUDIES REQUIREMENT
- VI. OTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION
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. THE LOWER-DIVISION CORE
All premajors in journalism are required to receive a C- grade or better in the following:
- J201 Mass Media and Society
- J202 Information Gatherin
- J203 Writing for the Media (Prereq: C or better in J101, WR 121, WR 122 or WR 123)
- J204 Visual Communication
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.
IV. UPPER-DIVISION BREADTH REQUIREMENT
All journalism students must also complete the upper-division breadth requirement selected from the following courses:
List A (Choose two from the following):
J385 Communication Law
J386 Communication Economics
J387 Communication History
J388 Communication Theory and Criticism
J396 International Communication
J397 Mass Media Ethics
- AND -
List B (Choose one from the following):
J412 Issues in Communication Studies* (*Repeated under different topics. Any J412 will complete this requirement.)
J417 Public Media and Culture
J418 Communication and Democracy
J446 Advertising and Society
J455 Third World Development Communication
J492 International Journalism
J496 Topics in Communication Ethics
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.
A. At least 116 credits outside journalism. (Any course prefix other than “J.”)
B. Of the 116 stated above, at least 94 credits have to be from courses offered by the College of Arts and Sciences.
C. 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.)
D. 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.
E. 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.
F. 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
