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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Journalism, Social Justice Journalism, B.S.
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Journalism and Strategic Media
Jennifer Woodard, program coordinator
615-898-2766
Jennifer.Woodard@mtsu.edu
The concentration in Social Justice Journalism focuses on the historic role of journalists and journalism as watchdogs observing and reporting on government and societal actions. The concentration offers journalists an understanding of how to report on the issues of communities whose stories of injustice and mistreatment receive little to no attention in the press. This concentration will form a basis of understanding in young reporters’ minds as to why coverage of the oppressed is necessary and required by a journalist’s duty to the First Amendment and to the longstanding principles outlined by professional press organizations.
Students should check the prerequisites for each course.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
49 hours* |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
12-18 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 (49 hours)
School of Journalism and Strategic Media Core (15 hours)
Social Justice Concentration (19 hours)
Conceptual Requirements (9 hours)
Professional Topics (6 hours)
Required Minor (15-18 hours)
- Students should select a minor in Political Science; Africana Studies; Women and Gender Studies; Urban Studies; Media, History and Culture; Gerontology; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Southern Studies; Middle East Studies; War, Policy and Society; Native American Studies; Environment and Human Society; Criminology; Social Justice; Family Studies; Political and Social Thought; or other approved minor.
Electives (12-18 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, Social Justice 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
- JOUR 2880 - Careers in Journalism and Media 1 credit hour
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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