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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Journalism, Sports Media Concentration, B.S.
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Journalism and Strategic Media
615-898-2814
Chris Bacon, program coordinator
Chris.Bacon@mtsu.edu
The Sports Media concentration offers students from all majors an opportunity to gain additional exposure in the sports industry and its impact on society. This emphasis can be beneficial for students who wish to pursue sports careers in print/online media, public relations, promotions, marketing communications, and broadcast journalism.
Students should check the prerequisites for each course.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
47 hours* |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
14-20 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 (47 hours)
School of Journalism and Strategic Media Core (14 hours)
Sports Media Concentration (15 hours)
Conceptual Requirements (9 hours)
Choose three:
Professional Topics (9 hours)
Choose three:
Minor (15-18 hours)
- Selected from outside the School of Journalism and Strategic Media with advisor approval.
Electives (14-20 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, Sports Media
Majors must have a C (2.00) or better in all Media and Entertainment courses.
Freshman Spring
- Information Literacy 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
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