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Jan 27, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Journalism, Entertainment Journalism Concentration, B.S.
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Journalism and Strategic Media
Christine Eschenfelder
615-898-5301
Christine.Eschenfelder@mtsu.edu
The concentration in Entertainment Journalism focuses on the methods and techniques for reporting, producing, and delivering entertainment and lifestyle programs and content via radio, television, mobile, Internet, and social media. This offers preparation for students to work in jobs including professional digital and broadcast reporters, editors, digital media producers, broadcast producers, hosts, presenters, and social media influencers.
Students should check the prerequisites for each course.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
50 hours* |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
11-17 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/Reporting/Editing/Performance (18 hours)
Conceptual Requirements (9 hours)
Choose three:
Professional Topics (9 hours)
Required Minor (15-18 hours)
- Minor may be completed within the School of Journalism and Strategic Media but must reflect another area of study.
Electives (11-17 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, Entertainment Journalism
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
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
Sophomore Fall
- JOUR 2710 - Media Writing 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Minor course 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
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