Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Journalism, Media Design Concentration, B.S.


Journalism and Strategic Media  
615-904-8239
Leslie Haines, program coordinator
Leslie.Haines@mtsu.edu

Media Design is an exciting and creative career option that allows students to communicate effectively with visuals. This may include anything from magazine to website design, branding, or social media content. Students will be shown the ins and outs of the latest industry software from award-winning professionals who are skillfully using it every day. In the senior capstone course, students will develop an online portfolio in preparation for entering the creative industry.

Students should check the prerequisites for each course.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Journalism, Media Design, B.S., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirements 50 hours*
Auxiliary Courses 6 hours
Minor 15-18 hours
Electives 5-11 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:

Major Requirements (50 hours)


School of Journalism and Strategic Media Core (14 hours)


Writing/Design Requirements (9 hours)


Conceptual Requirements (9 hours)


Senior Courses (6 hours)


Auxiliary Major Requirements (6 hours)


Minor (15-18 hours)


  • Selected from outside the School of Journalism and Strategic Media with advisor approval.

Electives (5-11 hours)


  • Students in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media (SOJSM) must complete 50 hours in liberal arts and sciences including True Blue Core requirements and one minor from outside SOJSM. Students must select at least nine hours of liberal arts/social sciences (beyond the True Blue Core); at least six hours of liberal arts/social science electives must come from courses at the 3000-level or higher.

Curriculum: Journalism, Media Design Concentration


Majors must have a C (2.00) or better in all Media and Entertainment courses.

Freshman


Subtotal: 30 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 31 Hours


Junior


Subtotal: 31 Hours


Senior


Subtotal: 28 Hours