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Oct 06, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Journalism, Environmental Journalism and Communication, B.S.
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Journalism and Strategic Media
Sanjay Asthana, program coordinator
615-898-5274
Sanjay.Asthana@mtsu.edu
The concentration in Environmental Journalism and Communication explores the multifarious ways in which individuals, communities, publics, and citizens engage with, and relate to, the biological, physical, and social environment through diverse and mediated forms of communication and culture. Students will engage in critical analyses of media coverage and journalistic reporting on these topics and issues in print, broadcast, and digital media platforms, and acquire creative skills in building and developing media content as part of civic engagement and public participation.
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)
Environmental Journalism and Communication Concentration (12 hours)
Conceptual Requirements (12 hours)
Choose four:
Professional Topics (12 hours)
Required Minor (15-18 hours)
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: Environmental Journalism and Communication
Majors must have a C (2.00) or better in all Media and Entertainment courses.
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
Senior Spring
- JOUR 3580 - MC Practicum 1 to 3 credit hours (1 credit hour required) OR
- JOUR 4000 - MC Internship 1 to 3 credit hours (1 credit hour required)
- JOUR professional topic 6 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
- Minor or elective course 3 credit hours
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